Famous People with Name Herbert

Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan: U.S. psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis was based on direct and verifiable observation (versus the more abstract conceptions of the unconscious mind favored by Sigmund Freud and his disciples).

Herbert McLean Evans            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert McLean Evans: was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist.His medical research at Berkeley addressed problems relating to human nutrition, endocrinology, embryology, and histology. In 1918, his research into the number of human chromosomes led him to believe the number to be 48, when most people assumed the number to be much higher. It was only later discovered that the correct figure was 46. Evans had much greater success however with hormones extracted from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. He isolated Human Growth Hormone, which was essential for human growth and development. In 1922 along with Katharine Scott Bishop, during feeding experiments on rats, he co-discovered Vitamin E which is needed for human reproduction.[

Herbert Ferber Silvers,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert Ferber Silvers,: was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School. In 1930, he attended the National Academy of Design, and that summer he was awarded a scholarship to work at The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in Oyster Bay, New York. He also began part-time work as a dentist. Impressed by African sculpture, he purchased his first piece of African art in 1931. Ferber received his dentistry degree in 1930, and, until the 1950s, he maintained two careers, as Abstract expressionist sculptor and dentist.

Herbert Lawrence Block,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert Lawrence Block,: was an American editorial cartoonist and author.During the course of his long career, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1942, 1954, 1979), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, and the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979.His first cartoon appeared in the Chicago Daily News on April 24, 1929. It advocated for the conservation of America's forests. After working (1933–43) for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, in 1946 he joined the Washington Post, from which he never retired. His personal assistant for 44 years was Jean Rickard, now Executive Director of the Herb Block Foundation. Herblock's last cartoon was published on August 26, 2001. He died of pneumonia just six weeks later, at the age of 91.

Herbert L. Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert L. Anderson: was an American nuclear physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University. He participated in the first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity. After the close of World War II, he was a professor of physics at the University of Chicago until 1982. There, he helped Fermi establish the Enrico Fermi Institute and was its director from 1958 to 1962. The latter part of his career was as a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award.

Raymond Ernest Herbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Raymond Ernest Herbert: (born December 15, 1929, in Detroit, Michigan) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played fourteen seasons with the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, Chicago White Sox, and Philadelphia Phillies.

Donald Jeffrey Herbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Jeffrey Herbert: better known as "Mr. Wizard", was the host of two popular television shows about science aimed at children.Herbert was a general science and English major at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (then it was La Crosse State Normal College) who was interested in drama. His career as an actor was interrupted by World War II when he enlisted in the United States Army as a private. Herbert later joined the United States Army Air Forces, took pilot training, and became a B-24 bomber pilot who flew combat missions with the Fifteenth Air Force, flying out of a base in Italy. When Herbert was discharged in 1945, he was a captain and had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.

Mike Herbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mike Herbert: is an American sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

John Carlyle Herbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Carlyle Herbert: was an American politician.He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1798 and 1799. Herbert resettled in Prince Georges County, Maryland in 1805 and served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1808 to 1813 and as speaker o

Mary Alice "Mal" Herbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mary Alice "Mal" Herbert: ran for Vice President as the candidate for the Socialist Party USA in 2004. She and her running-mate, Walt Brown, pulled in 10,837 votes, the highest total for the Socialist Party since 1952. She is a retired teacher. She was married to her husband Fred