Herbert

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

## People named Herbert

### Medieval, Religious figures and Nobility

* 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

### Presidents and Prime Ministers

* Herbert H. Asquith (1852–1928), leader of the Liberal Party and UK Prime Minister who led Britain during World War I
* Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), American politician, 31st President of the United States, one of the principal commanders of United States occupation of Haiti

### Military leaders

* Herbert Brede (1888–1942), Estonian general
* Herbert J. Brees (1877–1958), lieutenant general in the United States Army
* Herbert Gould (1891–1918), British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories
* Herbert N. Houck (1915–2002), American Naval flying ace awarded three Navy Crosses during World War II
* Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), British First World War field marshal and colonial administrator, one of the principal commanders in the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War
* Herbert Lawrence (1861–1943), general in the British Army, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Romani
* Herbert F. Leary, highly decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of vice admiral
* Herbert Loch (1886–1976), German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II
* Herbert Lumsden (1897–1945), senior British Army officer of World War I and II
* Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857–1932), senior British Army officer of the First World War
* 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 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 Schultze (1909–1987), German U-boat (submarine) commander of World War II
* Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), British general, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Abu Kru
* Herbert J. Valentine (1917–1996), American Marine flying ace, Navy Cross recipient

### Nazis and Communists

* Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), American Marxist historian and political activist
* Herbert Backe (1896–1947), German politician and SS Senior group leader (SS-Obergruppenführer) in Nazi Germany who served as State Secretary and Minister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, main perpetrator of mass starvation programmes during the Operation Hunger
* Herbert Baum, Jewish Communist politician and member of the German resistance against National Socialism
* Herbert Cukurs (1900–1965), Latvian aviator, member of the Arajs Kommando, one of the perpetrators of Burning of the Riga synagogues and Rumbula massacre
* Herbert Hagen, SS-Sturmbannführer of Nazi Germany and a personal assistant to the SS police chief in France
* Herbert Lange (1909–1945), German Nazi SS officer and one of the major perpetrators of the Holocaust
* Herbert Kappler (1907–1978), Nazi German SS officer and head of German police and security services in Rome

### Sailors

* Herbert "Bert" Pitman (1877–1961), English Merchant Navy sailor, who was the Third Principal Commanding Officer of RMS *Titanic*

### Others

* Herbert Austin (1866–1941), English car maker, founder of the Austin Motor Company and Member of Parliament
* Herbert Baker (1862–1946), British architect
* Herbert Bayer (1900–1985), Austrian graphic designer
* Herbert von Bismarck, Prince of Bismarck (1849–1904), German nobleman and diplomat, son of Otto von Bismarck, Minister for Foreign Affairs
* Herbert Blomstedt, American conductor
* Herbert Brown, American ornithologist and journalist who lived and worked in Arizona, founder of the Audubon Society of Arizona
* Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004), American chemist
* Herbert Brownell Jr. (1904–1996), American politician, 62nd United States Attorney General
* 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 Deutsch, American composer, inventor, and educator
* 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 (1927–2022), Austrian writer
* Herbert Gelernter (1930–2015), American scientist
* Herbert Giles (1845–1935), British diplomat and translator
* Herbert Gold (born 1924), American novelist
* Herbert "Bert" Gould, Welsh international rugby union centre who played club rugby for Newport Rugby Football Club and won three caps for Wales
* Herbert Grönemeyer (born 1956), German actor and musician
* Herbert Gross (1929–2020), American mathematician and a pioneer of distance studying
* Herbert Hauptman (1917–2011), American mathematician
* Herbert Hirche (1910–2002), German architect and designer
* Herbert Hoover Jr. (1903–1969), American engineer, businessman, and politician, eldest son of American presient Herbert Hoover
* Herbert Howells (1892–1983), English composer, organist and teacher famous for his Anglican church music
* Herbert Eric Jansz (1890-1976), Sri Lankan Burgher civil servant
* Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989), Austrian conductor
* Herbert Buckingham Khaury (1932–1996), musician known as Tiny Tim
* Herbert Kohler Jr. (1939–2022), American businessman
* Herbert Lom (1917–2012), Czech actor
* Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist
* Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), English actor
* Herbert B. Maw, American politician and educator who was the eighth Governor of Utah
* Herbert McCabe (1926–2001), English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian, and philosopher
* Herbert Morrison (1888–1965), British politician
* Herbert Morrison, American radio journalist best known for his dramatic report of the Hindenbur disaster
* Herbert Mullin (1947–2022), American serial killer and mass murderer
* Herbert Philbrick, Boston-area advertising executive who was encouraged by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist Party USA between 1940 and 1949
* Herbert L. Pratt (1871–1945), American oil industrialist
* Herbert Rappaport, Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director
* 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 Seifert (1907–1996), German mathematician
* Herbert M. Seneviratne (1925–1987), Sri Lankan Sinhala lyricist and actor
* Herbert Clifford Serasinghe, Sri Lankan Sinhala physician
* 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 Streicher (1947–2013), also known as Harry Reems, American pornographic actor
* Herbert Stothart (1885–1949), American composer
* Herbert Tabor (1918–2020), American biochemist and physician-scientist
* Herbert Tarr (1929–1993), American Jewish novelist and humorist
* Herbert Tennekoon (1911–1979), Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka from 1971 to 1979
* Herbert Thambiah (1926–1992), 39th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
* erbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917), English actor and theatre manager
* Herbert Schutz (1937–2018), German-born Canadian philologist
* Herbert Weerasinghe, Inspector-General of Sri Lanka Police from April 1985 to December 1985
* Herbert Wehner (1906–1990), German politician
* Herbert Weiz (born 1924), East German politician
* Herbert G. Wells (1866–1946), British writer, best remembered for his science fiction novels
* Herbert Winful (born 1952), Ghanaian-American engineering professor
* Herbert "Harry" Wright, Australian footballer
* Herbert Zangs (1924–2003), German artist

## Fictional characters

* Herbert P. Bear, a character from *Club Penguin*
* Herbert Birdsfoot, a fictional Muppet character in the television series *Sesame Street*
* Chief Herbert Dumbrowski, fictional character in *T.U.F.F. Puppy*
* Herbert Garrison, a fictional character in the television series *South Park*
* Herbert Olsen, a character from the girls cartoon series W.I.T.C.H.
* Herbert the Pervert, a fictional character in the television series *Family Guy*
* Herbert West, a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's story "Herbert West: Reanimator" and the films based on it

## See also

* Herbert (surname)
* Aribert
* Hébert
* Herb (given name)
* Herbart
* Robert

## References

https://www.behindthename.com/name/herbert