Hersh ( yi, הערש) is a given name and surname. People with the name include:

Given name

Hersh Leib Sigheter Hersh Leib Sigheter (1829–1930Dicker, p. 26), pen name of Hersh (Hirsch) Leib Gottlieb גוטליב (or Gottlieb גאטטליעב) was a Hungarian Jew from today's Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania ( hu, Sziget or ) who, even before the advent of ...

Hersh Wolch Hersh Wolch (April 18, 1940 – July 17, 2017) was a prominent Canadian lawyer, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wolch's primary practice was in the area of criminal law where he conducted precedent-setting criminal litigation at all levels of court. H ...

Surname

* Arek Hersh,

German Nazi Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

survivor and writer *

Kristin Hersh Kristin may refer to: * Kristin (name), a Scandinavian form of Christine * ''Kristin'' (TV series), a 2001 American sitcom * Kristin Peak, Antarctica * Kristin School, a school in New Zealand See also * Kristen (disambiguation) Kristen may re ...

, American singer-songwriter *

Patricia Hersh Patricia Lynn Hersh (born 1973) is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Her research concerns algebraic combinatorics, topological combinatorics, and the connections between combinatorics a ...

, American mathematician *

Reuben Hersh Reuben Hersh (December 9, 1927 – January 3, 2020) was an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. Although he was generally known as Reuben Hersh, late in life h ...

, American mathematician * Seymour "Sy" Hersh, American journalist