Hervé is a
French masculine
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 f ...
of
Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton
Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also ''Haerveus''), an early (8th-century) latinization was ''
Charivius''. Anglicized forms are
Harvey and Hervey.
Its Old Breton form was ''Huiarnviu'' (cf. Old Welsh ''Haarnbiu'' ), composed of the elements ''hoiarn'' ("iron", modern Breton ''houarn'', cf. Welsh ''haearn'') and ''viu'' ("bright", "blazing", modern Breton ''bev''). Its
common Celtic form would have been ''*isarno-biuos'' or ''*-ue(s)uos''.
Recorded Middle Breton forms of the name include ''Ehuarn, Ehouarn, Houarn''.
The name of the 6th-century saint is recorded in numerous variants, including forms such as:
''Houarniault'', ''Houarneau''; as the name of a legendary Breton bard, the name occurs in varians such as ''Hyvarnion, Huaruoé, Hoarvian''.
[''Bulletin Archéologique de l'Association Bretonne '' t. 4 (1884)]
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People with the given name
Medieval
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Saint Hervé, 6th-century Breton saint
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Saint-Hervé, French commune
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Saint-M'Hervé, French commune
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Charivius, Duke of Maine (
fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
723)
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Hervé (Norman) (fl. 1050s), Byzantine general of Norman extraction
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Hervey le Breton (died 1131), Bishop of Bangor and later Bishop of Ely
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Hervé IV of Donzy (1173–1223), French nobleman
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Harvey I of Léon, Breton viscount
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Hervé de Bourg-Dieu (c. 1080–1150), Benedictine monk
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Hervaeus Natalis (1260–1323), French Dominican theologian
Modern
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Hervé Alicarte, French footballer
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Hervé Arsène, French-Malagasy footballer
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Hervé Balland, French cross-country skier
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Hervé Bazin
Hervé Bazin (; 17 April 191117 February 1996) was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families.
Biography
Bazin, born Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin in Angers, Maine ...
, French writer
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Hervé Biausser, French university director
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Hervé Bochud, Swiss footballer
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Hervé Bohbot, French Scrabble player
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Hervé Bugnet, French footballer
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Hervé Carré, French economist
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Hervé Cuillandre, French writer
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Hervé de Charette, French politician
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Hervé de Luze
Hervé de Luze (born 1949) is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.Tylski, Alexandre (2004) (in French).
de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. ...
, French film director
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Hervé Di Rosa, French painter
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Hervé Déry, Canadian librarian and archivist
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Hervé Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist
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Hervé Faye, French astronomer (1814 – 1902)
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Hervé Filion, Canadian harness racer
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Hervé Gauthier, French footballer and coach
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Hervé Gaymard
Hervé Gaymard (born 31 May 1960) is a French politician and a member of The Republicans conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finance from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005.
Gaymard attended S ...
, French politician
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Hervé Guibert, French writer
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Hervé Guilleux, French motorcycle racer
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Hervé Guy
Hervé Guy Landry Bi Bola (born 5 August 1984) is an Ivorian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder.
Club career
Guy began his career in the youth ranks of French club S ...
, Ivorian footballer
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Hervé Kage, Belgian footballer
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Hervé Kambou, Ivorian footballer
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Hervé Lacelles
Joseph Harvey Milton Lacelle (January 18, 1918 – June 28, 1942) was a Canadian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Ottawa, Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province o ...
, Canadian boxer
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Hervé Lamizana
Hervé Mamadou Lamizana (born January 22, 1981) is an Ivorian former professional basketball player who also has French nationality.
College career
Lamizana played for the St. Patrick's basketball team in high school in Elizabeth, New Jersey, ...
, Ivory Coast football player
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Hervé Le Bras (born 1943), French demographer, historian and mathematician.
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Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier (; born 21 April 1957) is a French writer and linguistics, linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature") ...
, French writer
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Hervé Lièvre, French filmmaker, director of head of
SFRS-CERIMES (1995–2014)
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Hervé Makuka, Swiss footballer
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Hervé Morin, French politician
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Hervé Ndjana Onana, Cameroonian footballer
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Hervé Novelli, French politician
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Hervé Nzelo-Lembi, Congolese footballer
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Hervé Otélé, French-Cameroonian footballer
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Hervé Paillet, French actor
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Hervé Piccirillo, French football referee
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Hervé Renard
Hervé Jean-Marie Roger Renard (born 30 September 1968) is a French professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Saudi Arabia.
Renard has previously been the manager of Zambia national team, with whom he won the 2012 ...
, French football manager
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Hervé Revelli, French footballer
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Hervé Riel, French fisherman
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Hervé This, French chemist
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Hervé Tum, Cameroonian footballer
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Hervé Vilard (born 1946), French singer
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Hervé Villechaize
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (; April 23, 1943 – September 4, 1993) was a French actor. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' and as Mr. Roarke's assistant ...
(1943–1993), French-American actor
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J. Hervé Proulx, Canadian politician
Pseudonym
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Hervé (composer) (1825–1892), stage name of French operetta composer, singer, librettist and conductor, born Florimond Ronger
*Hervé (DJ), DJ and producer in the UK
As a surname
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Baron Hervey
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Thomas Hervey (landowner) (d. 1694), son of Sir William Hervey (1585–1660)
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John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (27 August 1665 – 20 January 1751) was an English Whig politician.
John Hervey was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the son of Sir Thomas Hervey. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridg ...
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John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey
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Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol
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Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol
Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, (1 August 1730 – 8 July 1803), was an 18th-century Church of England, Anglican prelate.
Elected Bishop of Cloyne in 1767 and Translation (ecclesiastical), translated to the see of Derry in 1 ...
;modern French surname
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Antoine Hervé, French composer
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Cédric Hervé, French cyclist
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Edmond Hervé, French politician
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Francis Hervé (1781–1850), French-British artist
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Francisco Hervé, Chilean geologist
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Gustave Hervé (1871–1944), French politician
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Pascal Hervé (1964–2024), French cyclist
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Lucien Hervé
Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán: 7 August 1910, – 26 June 2007) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier.
Biography
* 1910 : Born as László Elkán on 7 Au ...
, French-Hungarian photographer, born László Elkán
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