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Herbert Perry
Herbert Spencer Perry (1894–1966), British sport shooter and Royal Artillery officer, won gold for Great Britain in the running deer double shot team event at the 1924 Paris Olympics; also the name of a 1969-born MLB player.
Herbert Quandt
Herbert Quandt was a German industrialist who, as BMW's dominant shareholder, preserved and restructured the carmaker at the end of the 1950s; his Nazi-era record emerged publicly after 2007.
Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893–1968), English poet, art critic, V&A curator, anarchist, author of Education through Art (1943) and Art Now (1933); champion of Moore, Hepworth, Nicholson; co-founded the ICA in 1947.
Herbert Robbins
Herbert Robbins (1915–2001) was an American mathematical statistician at Columbia University who created empirical Bayes, co-founded stochastic approximation in 1951, and coauthored What Is Mathematics? with Richard Courant.
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross (May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001), American dancer-choreographer turned Hollywood director of The Turning Point, The Goodbye Girl, Footloose, and Steel Magnolias; born Brooklyn, died New York of heart failure.
Herbert Runge
Herbert Runge (1913-1986), German heavyweight boxer, Elberfelder Boxclub; won 1936 Berlin Olympic heavyweight gold on points over Guillermo Lovell, first German Olympic heavyweight champion; eight-time German amateur champion 1935-1943.
Herbert Runham Brown
Herbert Runham Brown (1879–1949) was a British Christian pacifist and first secretary of the War Resisters' International, nominated six times for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1932.
Herbert S. Cheng
Herbert S. Cheng, also known as Herbert SuYuen Cheng, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Herbert S. Eleuterio
Herbert S. Eleuterio was an American industrial chemist at DuPont who first observed olefin metathesis in 1956 and whose hexafluoropropylene chemistry underpinned Teflon FEP, Viton, Kalrez, and Nafion.
Herbert S. Gasser
Herbert S. Gasser (1888–1963) was an American physiologist who shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Joseph Erlanger for classifying nerve fibers, and directed the Rockefeller Institute from 1935 to 1953.
Herbert S. Gutowsky
Herbert S. Gutowsky (1919–2000) was an American chemist who pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for chemistry; his discovery of spin-spin coupling helped make NMR a major tool in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology.
Herbert S. Harned
Herbert S. Harned (1888–1969) was an American physical chemist, professor at Pennsylvania and then Yale, known for Harned's rule and the monograph The Physical Chemistry of Electrolytic Solutions.
Herbert S. Strauss
Herbert S. Strauss was an American physician-scientist in hematology who in the 1960s defined factor VIII inhibitors in hemophilia A and the clinical picture of von Willebrand's disease.
Herbert Saffir
Herbert Saffir (1917–2007) was an American civil engineer in South Florida who created the hurricane damage scale that, adapted by Robert Simpson, became the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Herbert Samuel
Herbert Samuel (Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel) was a British Liberal statesman and the first High Commissioner for Palestine, serving from 1920 to 1925.
Herbert Scarf
Herbert Scarf (1930–2015) was an American mathematical economist at Yale for over 50 years, known for the Scarf algorithm for computing economic equilibria, the Debreu–Scarf theorem, and optimal inventory policies.
Herbert Seifert
Herbert Seifert, born Karl Johannes Herbert Seifert, was a German mathematician (1907–1996) at Heidelberg known for Seifert surfaces, Seifert fibered spaces, and the Seifert–van Kampen theorem.
Herbert Shea
Herbert R. Shea is a physicist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Soft Transducers Laboratory, working on soft robotics, wearable haptics, and stretchable pumps.
Herbert Smith
Herbert Smith (1877-1951), English left back; won 4 England caps 1905-06 and Olympic football gold with Great Britain at the 1908 London Games; later President of the Oxfordshire FA.
Herbert Sobel
Herbert Maxwell Sobel (1912-1987), Easy Company's first commander at Camp Toccoa, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; removed from command in 1944, D-Day jumper, later lieutenant colonel; known from Band of Brothers.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher and sociologist, creator of the ten-volume Synthetic Philosophy, coined 'survival of the fittest' in Principles of Biology (1864), blended Lamarckism with natural selection, and defended laissez-faire equal freedom.
Herbert Spencer Jennings
Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868–1947) was an American zoologist and geneticist who spent 1906 to 1938 at Johns Hopkins University as an early investigator of heredity in single-celled organisms.
Herbert Spohn
Herbert Spohn (born 1946) is a German mathematical physicist, emeritus at TU Munich, known for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the first exact solution of the KPZ equation.
Herbert Tilg
Herbert Tilg is an Austrian gastroenterologist and hepatologist who has headed the University Hospital for Internal Medicine I at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2012.
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan, born Heribert Ritter von Karajan (1908–1989), was an Austrian conductor who led the Berlin Philharmonic from 1956 to 1989 and made over 2,000 recordings.
Herbert W. Armstrong
Herbert W. Armstrong was an American evangelist who founded the Worldwide Church of God, built a vast radio and print media empire, and died in 1986.
Herbert W. Roesky
Herbert W. Roesky (1935–2025) was a German inorganic chemist at the University of Göttingen who published over 1,250 papers on fluorine and main-group element chemistry.
Herbert W. Virgin
Herbert W. Virgin, known as Skip Virgin, is an American virologist and immunologist who discovered murine norovirus, defined the mammalian virome, and directed discovery of the COVID-19 antibody sotrovimab.
Herbert Wagner (German physicist)
Herbert Wagner (born 1935 in Munich) is a German theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at LMU Munich and a last student of Werner Heisenberg, best known for the 1966 Mermin–Wagner theorem.
Herbert Waldmann
Herbert Waldmann (born 1957 in Neuwied, Germany) is a German chemical biologist and medicinal chemist, director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, known for Biology Oriented Synthesis and pseudo-natural products.