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Herb (given Name)
Herb is a given name that is usually a diminutive of the name Herbert. People Herbert *Herb Aach (1923–1985), American painter and writer *Herb Abramson (1916–1999), American music executive *Herb Adderley (1939–2020), American football player *Herb Alpert (born 1935), American musician *Herb Andress (1935–2004), Austrian actor * Herb Baumeister (1947–1996), American suspected serial killer *Herb Boxer (born 1947), American ice-hockey player *Herb Brooks (1937–2003), American ice hockey coach *Herb Brown (born 1936), American basketball coach *Herb Caen (1916–1997), American journalist *Herb Carneal (1923–2007), American sportscaster *Herb Carnegie (1919–2012), Canadian ice hockey player *Herb Chambers (born 1940), American billionaire businessman *Herb Cohen (1932–2010), American music executive *Herb Coleman (other), multiple people *Herb Conaway (born 1963), American politician * Herb Covington (1902–1990), American football player * Herb Denenberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Foster
Herbert Stanley Foster (August 9, 1913 – June 2, 2003) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played six games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers, five games in 1940 and one game in 1948. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1932 to 1950, was mainly spent in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League The Eastern Hockey League was a minor professional United States ice hockey league. Eastern Amateur Hockey League (1933–1953) The league was founded in 1933 as the Eastern Amateur Hockey League (EAHL). The league was founded by Tommy Lockhart, .... Career statistics Regular season and playoffs External links * 1913 births 2003 deaths Atlantic City Sea Gulls (EHL) players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian ice hockey left wingers Cleveland Barons (1937–1973) players Ice hockey people from Ontario New York Rangers players New York Rovers players Ontario Hockey Association Senior A League (1890–1979) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Flam
Herbert Flam (November 7, 1928 – November 25, 1980) was an American tennis player who in 1957 was ranked by Lance Tingay as the World No. 4 amateur (and World No. 5 by Adrian Quist)."Times Have Changed, Says Adrian Quist" ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 27 October 1957. Biography He was inducted into the International Tennis Association Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, inducted into the in 1990, inducted into the |
Herb Fitzgibbon
Herbert Fitzgibbon (born July 14, 1942) is a former tennis player who was nationally ranked in the 1960s and 1970s. Fitzgibbon played four years of high school tennis for Garden City High School and never lost a match. He played collegiate tennis at Princeton University and was a gold and bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 when tennis was a demonstration sport. Fitzgibbon won the singles title at the tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1964 and was a two-time singles runner-up (1965 and 1963) there as well. He also reached the Cincinnati doubles final with Butch Newman in 1965. That year, he also won the Long Island Championships and the Eastern Clay Court title. In 1968, Fitzgibbon won against 16th-seeded Nikola Pilić in the first round at Wimbledon, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–2. The same year he won the La Coruna International in Spain against Juan Gisbert Sr.. Fitzgibbon also was an accomplished platform tennis player, winning national doubles titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Fame
Peaches & Herb is an American vocal duo. Herb Fame (born October 1, 1941) has remained a constant as "Herb" since the duo was created in 1966; seven different women have filled the role of "Peaches", most notably Francine Edna "Peaches" Hurd Barker (April 28, 1947 – August 13, 2005), the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo, and Linda Greene Tavani, the third "Peaches", who appeared on the duo's biggest hits "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) and " Reunited" (1979). History With Francine "Peaches" Barker and Marlene Mack (1966-1970) Herb Fame (born Herbert Feemster, October 1, 1942, in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.), sang in church and neighborhood groups as a child. After graduation from high school, he worked in a local record store, where he met record producer Van McCoy and was signed to Columbia subsidiary Date Records by McCoy and A&R executive Dave Kapralik. Francine "Peaches" Barker (April 28, 1947 – August 13, 2005), using the stage name Francine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Epp
Herbert Arnold Epp (August 31, 1934 – February 25, 2013) was a politician from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1977 to 1990 and was a former three-term mayor of the City of Waterloo. Background Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Ontario, Epp studied political science and history and received his BA degree from Waterloo Lutheran University in 1961. He went on to receive a Master of Education degree from the University of Toronto in 1972. Epp worked as a teacher and guidance counsellor for fifteen years with the Waterloo County Board of Education and worked occasionally as a supply teacher after finishing his career in provincial politics. Along with teaching, Epp sold real estate starting in 1978 and maintained his realty licence through his 13 years at Queen's Park. During his absence from politics from 1990 to 2003, Epp returned to real estate and was an associate broker for ReMax Realty in Waterloo. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Ellis
Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010), known professionally as Herb Ellis, was an American jazz guitarist. During the 1950s, he was in a trio with pianist Oscar Peterson. Biography Born in Farmersville, Texas, and raised in the suburbs of Dallas, Ellis first heard the electric guitar performed by George Barnes on a radio program. This experience is said to have inspired him to take up the guitar. He became proficient on the instrument by the time he entered North Texas State University. Ellis majored in music, but because they did not yet have a guitar program at that time, he studied the string bass. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, his college days were short-lived. In 1941, Ellis dropped out of college and toured for six months with a band from the University of Kansas. In 1943, he joined Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, and it was with Gray's band that he got his first recognition in the jazz magazines. After Gray's band, Ellis joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Elliott
Herbert James Elliott (born 25 February 1938) is a former Australian athlete and arguably the world's greatest middle distance runner of his era. In August 1958 he set the List of world records in athletics, world record in the mile run, clocking 3:54.5, 2.7 seconds under the record held by Derek Ibbotson; later in the month he set the 1500 metres world record, running 3.36.0, 2.1 seconds under the record held by Stanislav Jungwirth. In the 1500 metres at the 1960 Rome Olympics, he won the gold medal and bettered his own world record with a time of 3:35.6. Herb Elliot never lost a mile run and accomplished 36 wins over this distance. During his career, he broke four minutes for the mile on 17 occasions. Elliott retired from athletics soon after the 1960 Olympics, at the age of 22. He made a career in business, and at one time was chairman of Fortescue Metals Group. He was also chairman of Global Corporate Challenge health initiative. Biography Elliott was born on 25 February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Edelman
Herbert Edelman (November 5, 1933 – July 21, 1996) was an American actor of stage, film and television. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his television work. One of his best-known roles was as Stanley Zbornak, the ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak (played by Beatrice Arthur) on ''The Golden Girls''. He also had a recurring role on the 1980s medical drama '' St. Elsewhere''. Early life and career Edelman was born in New York City in the borough of Brooklyn. Before becoming an actor, Edelman studied to become a veterinarian at Cornell University, but left during his first year. After serving in the United States Army as an announcer for Armed Forces Radio, he enrolled in Brooklyn College as a theater student, but eventually dropped out. He later worked as a hotel manager and as a taxicab driver. One of his fares was director Mike Nichols, who in 1963 cast Edelman in his breakthrough Broadway role, as the bewildered telephone repairman in Neil Simon's ''Barefoot in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Drury
Herbert Joseph Drury (March 2, 1896 – July 30, 1965) was a Canadian-born American ice hockey defenseman who played six seasons in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Quakers. Internationally he played for the American national team at the 1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal both times. Playing career Drury was Canadian, he was born in Midland, Ontario in 1895. He came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1916 to play for the Pittsburgh Athletic Association hockey team (which later became the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets of the United States Amateur Hockey Association) at the Duquesne Gardens. From 1918 to 1919 he was called to military service for World War I and did not resume his hockey career until 1920. That season, he represented the United States, as a naturalized citizen on the U.S. Olympic hockey team for the 1920 Summer Olympics. The 1920 Olympic Games, in Antwerp, Belgium, was the debut of hockey to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Donaldson (lawyer)
Herbert Donaldson (February 12, 1927 – December 5, 2008) was an openly gay San Francisco lawyer and judge who gained national attention for his efforts to legally block San Francisco police from harassing attendees of a fund-raising ball for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, an early homophile organization, on January 1, 1965. Police harassment at California Hall On the eve of January 1, 1965, several homophile organizations in San Francisco, California - including the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, the Society for Individual Rights, the Daughters of Bilitis, and the Mattachine Society - held a fund-raising ball for their mutual benefit at the California Hall. Prior to the ball, several of the ministers from the Council on Religion met with San Francisco police, who tried to get them to cancel it. The clergy members declined to cancel the event, and San Francisco police agreed not to interfere. However, on the evening of the ball, the police showed up in fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
