Herc

Herc may refer to:

People:

• DJ Kool Herc (born 1955), Jamaican-born DJ credited with originating hip hop music
• Ernest Alley (c. 1904-1971), American college football player and head coach and track athlete and head coach
• Herc McIntyre, head of Universal Pictures in Australia from 1920 until the 1950s
• Hercules Herc Vollugi (1880-1960), Australian rules footballer

Entertainment:

• Herc, a fictional character on the HBO drama series The Wire
• Herc (Hercules), the title character of the 1998 animated Disney TV series Hercules
• Dr. Herman "Herc" Armstrong, a character in the 1986 animated series Inhumanoids
• Hercules "Herc" Hansen, a character in the film Pacific Rim
• Captain Hercules "Herc" Shipwright, a recurring character in the British radio series Cabin Pressure
• Herc Stormsailor, a main character in the French/North American animated TV show Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
• a playable character in Herc's Adventures, a video game released in 1997
• Humaniform-Emulation Roboticized Combat Unit with Leg-Articulated Navigation (HERC for short), a war machine in the video game Metaltech: Earthsiege and its sequels

Other uses:

• Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation, a heavy equipment rental division of the Hertz Corporation from 1965 to 2016
• Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
• Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation, predecessor of Jovair, founded in 1946
• Trenton Hercs, later name of the now defunct Trenton Sting Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey team in the 2008-2009 season
• Radio Herc, a local radio station in Kosovo - see List of radio stations in Kosovo

See also

• Hercules (disambiguation), many frequently abbreviated as "Herc"
• HERC1, HERC2, HERC5, human enzymes and the genes that encode them