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Herman Miller

Herman Miller is an American furniture manufacturer based in Zeeland, Michigan, known for modern design and the Eames Lounge Chair and Aeron Chair; it joined MillerKnoll in 2021.

Herman Moore

Herman Moore (born 1969, Danville, Virginia) is a former Virginia Cavaliers and Detroit Lions wide receiver, 1995 NFL receptions record holder (123), 4x Pro Bowl, 3x All-Pro, 2026 College Football Hall of Fame inductee.

Herman Munster

Herman Munster, the Frankenstein-monster patriarch of CBS sitcom The Munsters (1964–66), played by Fred Gwynne; created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, a gentle-man-child parody of Universal's monster films.

Herman Müntz

Herman Müntz (born Chaim) was a Jewish mathematician from Łódź, born in 1884, best known for the 1914 Müntz–Szász theorem on the density of monomial spans.

Herman N. Eisen

Herman N. Eisen (1918–2014) was an American immunologist who showed that antibodies are bivalent, described affinity maturation, and discovered serine esterases made by cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

Herman Narula

Herman Narula, born 1988, is a British technology founder and CEO who co-founded Improbable in 2012, a London virtual worlds company valued above $1 billion after a SoftBank investment in 2017.

Herman Nilsson-Ehle

Herman Nilsson-Ehle (1873–1949) was a Swedish geneticist and plant breeder whose 1909 wheat kernel-color experiments showed that continuously varying traits are inherited as discrete Mendelian factors.

Herman Nyberg

Herman Andreas Nyberg (1880-1968), Swedish sailor from GKSS Gothenburg; won gold in the 10-metre class aboard yacht Kitty at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, Sweden's first sailing gold. Distinct from the 1912 shooter Herman Nyberg.

Herman of Alaska (Герман Аляскинский)

Herman of Alaska (Герман Аляскинский) was a Russian Orthodox monk who arrived in Kodiak in 1794 and became America's first canonized Orthodox saint in 1970.

Herman P. Schwan

Herman P. Schwan (1915–2005) was a German-born American biophysicist and electrical engineer, a founding father of biomedical engineering who measured the electrical properties of cells and tissues.

Herman Rijkaard

Herman Harry Rijkaard (1935–2010) was a Surinamese-born footballer who settled in Amsterdam after migrating from Paramaribo in 1955, and was the father of Dutch star Frank Rijkaard.

Herman S. Bloch

Herman S. Bloch (1912–1990) was an American industrial chemist who spent his career at Universal Oil Products near Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Herman Santiago

Herman Santiago (born 1941) is an American doo-wop singer, original lead singer of the Teenagers, and disputed co-author of "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"; his 1992 royalty win was reversed on appeal in 1996.

Herman Schell

Herman Schell (1850–1906) was a German Catholic systematic theologian and professor at the University of Würzburg, the leading voice of German reform Catholicism in the 1890s.

Herman Talmadge

Herman Talmadge, also known as Herman Eugene Talmadge, was a Georgia politician who served as governor and U.S. Senator. He championed the state's first sales tax.

Herman Teirlinck

Herman Teirlinck (1879–1967) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, and theater reformer, considered one of the best modern Flemish writers and the first laureate of the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 1956.

Herman Waldmann

Herman Waldmann, born in 1945, is a British immunologist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford known for developing the therapeutic antibody Campath-1, now the drug alemtuzumab.

Herman Whiton

Herman Frasch "Swede" Whiton (1904–1967), American sailor and oil executive, won Olympic 6 Metre gold in 1948 and 1952 aboard Llanoria with different crews, after the 1924 6 Meter World Championship.

Herman Wildenvey

Herman Wildenvey (1885–1959), born Herman Theodor Portaas, was a Norwegian lyric poet who brought a new colloquial voice to Norwegian poetry from his debut in 1907.

Herman Willem Daendels

Herman Willem Daendels (1762–1818) was a Dutch soldier and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1808 to 1811, best known for building the Great Post Road across Java.

Herman Wold

Herman Wold (1908–1992) was a Norwegian-born Swedish statistician and econometrician, professor at Uppsala, known for the Wold decomposition of stationary time series and the partial least squares methods.

Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk (1915–2019), American novelist of The Caine Mutiny, Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance; Pulitzer Prize 1952, Bronx-born, wrote into his 100th year.

Herman Z. Cummins

Herman Z. Cummins (1933–2010) was an American experimental physicist who invented laser Doppler velocimetry and photon correlation spectroscopy, studied phase transitions by light scattering, and taught at City College of New York.

Herman Zanstra

Herman Zanstra was a Dutch astronomer who created the Zanstra method for estimating the temperatures of planetary-nebula central stars, publishing his foundational theory in 1927.

Herman's Head

Herman's Head, a Fox sitcom (1991-1994) created by Andrew Guerdat and Steve Kreinberg, stars William Ragsdale as fact-checker Herman Brooks, whose four personified psyche traits, Angel, Wimp, Genius, and Animal, argue in his brain; it featured Simpsons voices Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria.

Herman's Hermits

Herman's Hermits, English beat/pop group from Manchester formed in the early 1960s, fronted by Peter Noone and produced by Mickie Most. British Invasion act with eleven US Top Ten hits, 1964-1967, including "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter."

Hermanas, un amor compartido

Hermanas, un amor compartido is a 2026 Mexican telenovela by TelevisaUnivision, adapted from the Turkish Aglama Anne, produced by Silvia Cano, starring Adriana Louvier and Danna García as sisters fighting over daughter Aura, airing on Las Estrellas, ViX, and Univision.

Hermann A. Haus

Hermann A. Haus (1925–2003) was an Austrian-American electrical engineer and physicist at MIT known for work on noise in quantum electronics, optical fiber communications, and ultrashort-pulse optics, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1995.

Hermann Adler

Hermann Adler (1839–1911) was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911, succeeding his father Nathan Marcus Adler.

Hermann and Dorothea

Hermann and Dorothea (Hermann und Dorothea) is an epic poem in hexameters by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, telling of a German innkeeper's son and a refugee girl.