Huber

This article is about the surname. For other uses, see Huber (disambiguation).

Huber is a surname of German origin. It derives from the German word Hube meaning hide, a unit of land a farmer might possess. It is in the top ten most common surnames in the German-speaking world, especially in Austria and Switzerland where it is the surname of approximately 0.3% of the population.

Variants arising from varying dialectal pronunciation of the surname include Hueber, Huemer, Humer, Haumer and Huebmer and Hoover.

Map showing frequency distribution of the surname Huber in Germany. A clear increase in frequency is seen as one moves south towards the Austrian border

People with the surname Huber

• Alexander Huber (born 1968), German climber and mountaineer
• Alexander Huber (football) (born 1985), a football player
• Alyson Huber (born 1972), a California legislator elected to the State Assembly in 2008
• Anke Huber (born 1974), German former tennis player and she was good at single
• Bruno Huber (1930-1999), Swiss astrologer, husband of Louise Huber
• Cheri Huber (born c. 1944), independent Soto Zen teacher
• Chuck Huber (born 1971), American voice actor
• Don Huber (born 1957), retired American Soccer (Football) forward
• Erwin Huber (born 1946), German conservative politician
• François Huber (1750-1831), Swiss naturalist
• Gerold Huber (born 1969), German pianist
• Gregory Huber (born 1971), American legislator and jurist
• Harold Huber (1909-1959), American character actor of the 1930s/1940s
• Hermann J. Huber (1954–2009), German writer and journalist
• Herta Huber (born 1926), German writer and poet
• Jacques Huber (1867–1914), Swiss-Brazilian botanist
• JoKarl Huber (1902-1996), German artist
• Justin Huber (born 1982), Australian baseball player
• Klaus Huber (born 1924), Swiss composer
• Kurt Huber (1893-1943) , a German professor, executed by the Nazis in 1943
• Kurt Huber (tenor) (born 1937), Swiss tenor
• Liezel Huber (born 1976), South African tennis player and she is good at doubles
• Louise Huber (1930-1999), Swiss astrologer, wife of Bruno Huber
• Max Huber (disambiguation), multiple people
• Nicolaus A. Huber (born 1939), German composer
• Norbert Huber (born 1964), Italian former luger
• Peter J. Huber (born 1934), Swiss statistician
• Robert Huber (born 1937), German biochemist
• Robert Huber (sport shooter) (1878-1946), Finnish former sport shooter
• Robert J. Huber (1922–2001), U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Rocky Huber (born 1955), American mechanical engineer and creator of the DZynSource Mold Engineering Software
• Ronald Huber (born 1954), Chilean architect and naturalist
• Rupert Huber (born 1967), Austrian composer and musician
• Sophie Huber, (born 1985) French freestyle swimmer
• Therese Huber (1764-1829), German author
• Thomas Huber (born 1966), German climber and mountaineer
• Tomáš Huber, Czech footballer
• Tytus Maksymilian Huber (1872-1950), Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist
• Vernon Huber (1899-1967), 36th Governor of American Samoa
• Victor Aimé Huber (1800-1869), German social reformer, travel writer and a literature historian
• Ulrik Huber (1636–1694), a Dutch jurist
• Wilfried Huber (born 1970), Italian luger
• Wolf Huber (c. 1485-1553), Austrian painter
• Wolfgang Huber (born 1942), German former Bishop