Famous People with Name Herbert

Herbert Manfred Marx            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert Manfred Marx: is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers.Zeppo appeared in the first five Marx Brothers movies, as a straight man and romantic lead, before leaving the team. According to a 1925 newspaper article, he also made a solo appearance in the Adolphe Menjou comedy A Kiss in the Dark, but no known copy of the film exists, and it is not clear if he actually appeared in the finished film.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert Marshall McLuhan: was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village."

Herbert Morrison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert Morrison: was an American radio reporter best known for his vivid description of the Hindenburg disaster - fire that destroyed the Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937.Network policy in those days forbade the use of recorded material except for sound effects on dramas, and Morrison and Nielsen had no facilities for live broadcast. Still the results became the prototype for news broadcasting in the war years to follow. The fame of this recording had no effect on network policies, however, and it was not until after the end of World War II that recordings were regularly used.

Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr.: was an iconic American comedian, actor, and musician.One of the most popular stars of early television, Gleason was respected for both comedic and dramatic roles. However, his major legacy was his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as delivered by the character Ralph Kramden on the pioneering sitcom The Honeymooners.

Herbert Eugene Caen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Herbert Eugene Caen: was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the San Francisco Chronicle from the late 1930s until his death, with an interruption from 1950 to 1958 during which he wrote for the San Francisco Examiner. His collection of essays entitled Baghdad-by-the-Bay was published in 1949. He died of lung cancer in San Francisco and his funeral was one of the best-attended events in recent city history.

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