Herta may refer to the following:

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Herta Anitaș Herta Anitaș (born 18 August 1962) is a retired Romanian rower who won a silver and a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics. ...

(born 1967) Romanian rower and Olympic medalist *

Herta Bothe Herta Bothe (3 January 1921 – 16 March 2000) was a German concentration camp guard during World War II. She was imprisoned for war crimes after the defeat of Nazi Germany, and was subsequently released early from prison on 22 December 1951. Li ...

(born 1921), German guard at Nazi concentration camps *

Herta Däubler-Gmelin Herta Däubler-Gmelin (; born 12 August 1943) is a German lawyer, academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party. She served as Federal Minister of Justice from 1998 to 2002, and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2009. She curre ...

(born 1943), German politician, German Minister of Justice *

Herta Ehlert Herta Ehlert (née Liess; 26 March 1905 – 4 April 1997) was a female guard at many Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. On 15 November 1939, Ehlert was called for ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) work by the Labor Exchange,Herta Elviste Herta Elviste (12 June 1923 – 29 October 2015), was an Estonian stage, film and television actress and assistant theatre director whose career spanned nearly seventy years. Early life and education Herta Elviste was born Herta Marianne Brandt t ...

(1923-2016), Estonian actress *

Herta Feely Herta Burbach Feely is a writer, editor, and child safety activist. She co-founded Safe Kids Worldwide. Early life Feely was born to German immigrants in Yugoslavia, and grew up in Germany and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

(born ????), German-American editor, and child safety activist *

Herta Freitag Herta Freitag ( Taussig; December 6, 1908 – January 25, 2000) was an Austrian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Hollins College, known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers. Life She was born as Herta Taussig in Vienna, ...

(1908–2000), Austrian-born American mathematician and professor *

Herta Groves Herta "Georgette" Groves (April 1920 – 27 April 2016) was an Austrian-born British milliner who made hats for Queen Elizabeth II. Early life Groves grew up in Vienna, the daughter of Jewish parents, Wilhelm and Amelia. Her father died of pneum ...

, British hat designer *

Herta Haas Herta Haas (29 March 1914 – 5 March 2010) was a Slovene and Yugoslav partisan during World War II and the second wife of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the partisans and a future president of Yugoslavia. Biography Haas was born 1914 in Slovens ...

(1914–2010), Yugoslav Partisan during World War II and second wife of Josip Broz Tito *

Herta Hafner Herta Hafner was an Italian luger who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. A natural track luger, she won the gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1982 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships in Feld am See, Austria ...

, Italian luger *

Herta Herzog Herta Herzog-Massing (August 14, 1910 – February 25, 2010) was an Austrian-United States of America, American social scientist specializing in communication studies. Her most prominent contribution to the field, an article entitled "What Do We R ...

(1910–2010), Austrian-born American social scientist specializing in communication studies *

Herta Heuwer Herta Charlotte Heuwer (née Pöppel; 30 June 1913 – 3 July 1999) owned and ran a food kiosk in West Berlin. She is frequently credited with the invention of the take-out dish that would become the currywurst, supposedly on 4 September 1949. ...

(1913–1999), German inventor of the take-out dish currywurst *

Herta Huber Herta Huber (24 January 1926 – 8 April 2018) was a German writer and poet. Life and career Huber was born in Schönbach, Czechoslovakia on 24 January 1926. She was known for writing in the Egerland dialect, originating from what is now part of ...

(born 1926), German writer and poet *

Herta Laipaik Herta Leilla Laipaik (29 January 1921 – 17 January 2008) was an Estonian writer. Life Herta Leilia Laipaik (from 1943 Herta L. Rumma, from 1955 Herta L. Kornev) was born on 29 January 1921 in Valga County, Southern Estonia. She went to school ...

(1921–2008), Estonian writer *

Herta Müller Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf (german: Nitzkydorf, link=no), Timiș County in Romania, her native language is G ...

(born 1953), Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature *

Herta Oberheuser Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison a ...

(1911–1978), German physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp *

Herta Ratzenhofer Herta Ratzenhofer (27 June 1921 – 6 January 2010) was an Austrian pair skater. Competing with her brother Emil Ratzenhofer, she won five gold medals at the Austrian Figure Skating Championships. The pair won the bronze medal at the European Fig ...

(born 1921), Austrian pair skater and Olympic competitor *

Herta Ware Herta Ware (June 9, 1917 – August 15, 2005) was an American actress and activist. Early life Ware was born Herta Schwartz in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Helen Ware, a musician and violin teacher, and Laszlo Schwartz, an actor wh ...

(1917–2005), American actress and political activist *

Herta Wunder Herta Wunder (March 4, 1913 – January 28, 1992) was a German freestyle swimmer, born in Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1& ...

(1913–1992), German freestyle swimmer and Olympic competitor

Surname

Bryan Herta Bryan John Herta (born May 23, 1970) is an American former race car driver. He currently runs his own team, Bryan Herta Autosport in the NTT IndyCar Series. His team won the 2011 Indianapolis 500 with driver Dan Wheldon and the 2016 Indianapol ...

(born 1970), American race car driver *

Colton Herta Colton Thomas Herta (born March 30, 2000) is an American open-wheel racing driver currently competing in the NTT IndyCar Series for Andretti Autosport with Curb-Agajanian. He is the youngest person to ever win an IndyCar Series race. He is the ...

(born 2000), American race car driver, son of

Teodor Herța Teodor Herța (February 2, 1891 in Alcedar, Moldova) was a Bessarabian politician, deputy in Sfatul Țării, council that exercised the legislative power in the Moldavian Democratic Republic, between 1917 and 1918.''Figuri contemporane din Basarab ...

, Bessarabian politician

Locations

Herța River The Hertsa or Hertza ( ro, Herța; uk, Герца) is a right tributary of the river Prut in Romania and Ukraine. It flows through the town Hertsa, and discharges into the Prut near Marshyntsi Marshyntsi ( uk, Маршинці; ro, Marșeniț ...

, a tributary of the Prut River in Romania *

Hertsa Hertsa or Hertza ( ; ro, Herța ) is a city located in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Hertsa urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine, and has a population of The town is locate ...

( ro, Herța), a city located in Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine * The

Hertsa region The Hertsa region, also known as the Hertza region ( uk, Край Герца, Kraj Herca; ro, Ținutul Herța), is a region around the town of Hertsa within Chernivtsi Raion in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine, ne ...

, a former Romanian region, now in Ukraine, occupied in 1940 by the Soviet Union as a result of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Other uses

Herta Foods Herta is a brand of pre-cooked Frankfurters, owned by Nestlé (40%) and Catalan-based Casa Tarradellas (60%). It is currently the most popular Frankfurter-brand throughout Europe. History Ludwig Schweisfurth opened a butcher shop in the Ger ...

, brand of pre-cooked Frankfurters, owned by Nestlé * "Herta", a type of

drum rudiment In ''rudimental drumming'', a form of percussion music, a drum rudiment is one of a number of relatively small patterns which form the foundation for more extended and complex drumming patterns. The term "drum rudiment" is most closely associa ...

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