Herbert (given name)

Herbert is a Germanic given name, from harja- "army" or "warrior" and beraht "bright" or "shining" (compare Robert). See also Heribert and Aribert, other given names with the same roots.

Herbert

Herbert Hoover, President of the United States
Gender	Male
Origin
Meaning	"army-bright"
Region of origin	Germanic countries (England, Scotland, Germany, Scandinavian region)
Other names
Related names	Herb (short), Herbie (nickname), Heribert, Aribert

People named Herbert

• Saint Herbert
• Herbert of Derwentwater (died 687), Anglo-Saxon hermit, priest, and saint
• Herbert I of Maine (died 1036), Frankish count
• Herbert II of Maine (died 1062), Frankish count
• Herbert I, Count of Vermandois (848–907), Frankish count
• Herbert II, Count of Vermandois (880–943), Frankish count
• Herbert III, Count of Vermandois (987–997), Frankish count
• Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois (1045–1080), Frankish count
• Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), American historian
• Herbert H. Asquith (1852–1928), UK Prime Minister (1908-16), Leader of the Liberal Party (1908-26) and Member of Parliament (1886-1918, 1920-24), one of the principal commanders of World War I
• Herbert Austin (1866–1941), English car maker, founder of the Austin Motor Company and Member of Parliament for Birmingham King's Norton (1918-24).
• Herbert Backe (1896-1947), German politician and SS functionary during the Nazi era, Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture developer and implementor of the Hunger Plan that envisioned death by starvation of millions of Slavic and Jewish people following the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union
• Herbert Baker (1862–1946), British architect
• Herbert Bayer (1900–1985), Austrian graphic designer
• Herbert von Bismarck (1849–1904), German diplomat
• Herbert J. Brees (1877–1958), lieutenant in the United States Army
• Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004), American chemist
• Herbert Brownell Jr. (1904–1996), American politician
• Herbert Ashwin Budd (1881–1950), British painter
• Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), British historian
• Herbert Clemens (born 1939), American mathematician
• Herbert Cohen (born 1940), American Olympic fencer
• Herbert Croly (1869–1930), American writer
• Herbert Cukurs, Latvian aviator, member of the Arajs Kommando, which was involved in the mass murder of Latvian Jews as part of the Holocaust
• Herbert von Dirksen (1882-1955), German diplomat and last German Ambassador to the United Kingdom before World War II
• Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930), Canadian-born American industrialist
• Herbert Dreilich (1942–2004), German singer
• Herbert Elliott (1887–1973), English cricketer
• Herbert Flam (1928–1980), American tennis player
• Herbert W. Franke (born 1927), Austrian writer
• Herbert Gelernter (born 1930), American scientist
• Herbert Giles (1845–1935), British diplomat and translator
• Herbert Gold (born 1924), American novelist
• Herbert Grönemeyer (born 1956), German actor and musician
• Herbert Gross (born 1929), American mathematician
• Herbert Hagen, SS-Sturmbannführer of Nazi Germany who served as a personal assistant to the SS police chief in France, sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, for his complicity in the murder of thousands of Jews and others deported from France during World War II
• Herbert Hauptman (1917–2011), American mathematician
• Herbert Hirche (1910–2002), German architect and designer
• Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), American politician, 31st President of the United States
• Herbert N. Houck (1915–2002), American Naval flying ace awarded three Navy Crosses during World War II
• Herbert C. Jones (1918–1941), officer in the United States Navy who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Herbert Kappler (1907–1978), Nazi German SS officer and head of German police and security services in Rome
• Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989), Austrian conductor
• Herbert Buckingham Khaury (1932-1996), musician known as Tiny Tim
• Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), British First World War field marshal and colonial administrator, one of the principal commanders of Mahdist War, Battle of Paardeberg, Battle of Ferkeh, Battle of Atbara, Battle of Omdurman, Gallipoli campaign and Second Boer War, one of the establishers of British concentration camps during the war
• Herbert Lange (1909–1945), German Nazi SS officer, commandant of Chelmno concentration camp involved in Aktion T4, Operation Tannenberg and Holocaust perpetrator
• Herbert Lawrence (1861–1943), general in the British Army, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Romani
• Herbert Loch (1886–1976), Nazi German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II
• Herbert Lom (1917–2012), Czech actor
• Herbert Lumsden (1897–1945), senior British Army officer of World War I and II
• Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German philosopher
• Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), English actor
• Herbert McCabe (1926–2001), English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian, and philosopher
• Herbert Morrison (1888–1965), British politician
• Herbert Mullin (born 1947), American serial killer and mass murderer
• Herbert "Bert" Pitman, English Merchant Navy sailor, who was the Third Principal Commanding Officer of RMS Titanic
• Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857–1932), senior British Army officer of the First World War, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Messines (1917), Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917), Second Battle of Ypres, Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, Battle of Polygon Wood and Battle of Broodseinde
• Herbert L. Pratt (1871–1945), American oil industrialist
• Herbert Irving Preston (1876–1928), American Marine and Medal of Honor recipient
• Herbert B. Powell (1903–1998), U.S. Army General and Commanding General of the U.S. Continental Army Command
• Herbert Ross (1927–2001), American director
• Herbert Saffir (1917–2007), American scientist
• Herbert Charles Sanborn (1873–1967), American philosopher, academic, and one-time political candidate
• Herbert Schwamborn (born 1973), Zimbabwean music producer
• Herbert Schultze (1909-1987), German U-boat (submarine) commander of the Kriegsmarine (the German navy in World War II), commander of U-48 for eight patrols during the early part of the war, sinking 169,709 gross register tons (GRT) of shipping, the eighth-most of any Kriegsmarine submarine commander
• Herbert Seifert (1907–1996), German mathematician
• Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), American political scientist
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher
• Herbert Stevens IV (born 1987), American hip-hop recording artist who records under the name "Ab-Soul"
• Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), British soldier
• Herbert Streicher (1947–2013), also known as Harry Reems, American pornographic actor
• Herbert Stothart (1885–1949), American composer
• Herbert Tarr (1929–1993), American Jewish novelist and humorist
• Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917), English actor and theatre manager
• Herbert Schutz (1937-2018), German-born Canadian philologist
• Herbert J. Valentine (1917–1996), American Marine flying ace, Navy Cross recipient
• Herbert Wehner (1906–1990), German politician
• Herbert G. Wells (1866–1946), British writer, prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, best remembered for his science fiction novels, often called the "father of science fiction"
• Herbert Zangs, (1924–2003), German artist

Fictional characters

• Herbert P. Bear, a character from Club Penguin
• Chief Herbert Dumbrowski, fictional character in T.U.F.F. Puppy
• Herbert Garrison, a fictional character in the television series South Park
• Herbert West, a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's story "Herbert West: Reanimator" and the films based on it

See also

• Aribert
• Hébert
• Herb (given name)
• Herbart
• Herbert (disambiguation)
• Robert