Hermann
Hermann or Herrmann is a German given name (meaning "army man" or "warrior"), and might refer to:
People
Surname
- Alexander Herrmann, German magician known as "The Great Herrmann."
- Arnulf Herrmann, German composer (born 1968)
- Bernard Herrmann, American composer
- Boris Herrmann, German sailor
- Johann Wilhelm Herrmann, German theologian
- Ed Herrmann, American baseball player
- Edward Herrmann, American actor
- Fernand Herrmann, French silent film actor
- Jacob Herrmann, German rugby union international
- Jakob Hermann, Swiss mathematician (1678–1733)
- Johann Hermann, French zoologist
- Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German classical scholar and philologist
- Judith Hermann, German short story writer
- Michael Herrmann, German festival director
- Ned Herrmann, is known for his research in creative thinking and whole-brain methods
- Peter Hermann (born 1967), German-American actor and writer
- Peter Hermann (born 1963), Liechtenstein track cyclist
- Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
- Walter Herrmann (born 1910), German nuclear physicist
Given name
- Hermann Abert (1871–1927), German historian of music
- Hermann Balk (died 1239), Teutonic knight
- Hermann Baumgarten (1825–1893), a German historian and political publicist
- Hermann Billung, a Margrave of Saxony
- Hermann Bondi (1919–2005), Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist
- Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892), German zoologist
- Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909)
- Hermann Fegelein (1906–1945), Waffen-SS General
- Hermann Fressant, 14th century writer
- Hermann Goldschmidt (1802–1866), German-French astronomer who discovered the asteroid Lutetia
- Hermann Göring, a leading German Nazi official
- Hermann Grassmann (1809–1877), German linguist and mathematician
- Hermann Gundert, a German missionary who compiled the first Malayalam-English dictionary
- Hermann Harms (1870–1942), German botanist
- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), German physicist
- Hermann Hesse, a German-born poet, novelist, and painter
- Hermann Hoth (1885–1971), German military officer
- Hermann Hreiðarsson, footballer of Icelandic descent
- Hermann Huppen (born 1938), a Belgian comic book artist
- Hermann Lang (1909–1987), German race car driver
- Hermann Maier, an Austrian skier
- Hermann Merkin (1907–1999), Jewish-American businessman
- Hermann Minkowski, a Lithuanian mathematician who devised the idea of four-dimensional spacetime
- Hermann Müller, the name of several individuals
- Hermann Muthesius (1861–1927), German architect
- Hermann Oberth (1894–1989), Romanian and German physicist
- Hermann Panzo (1958–1999), a French sprinter
- Hermann Prey (1929–1998), German lyric baritone
- Hermann Rauschning, a German conservative and reactionary, opponent of the Nazi party
- Hermann von Salza, a Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), German conductor
- Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884), German ornithologist
- Hermann von Siemens (1885–1986), former head of German electronics company Siemens AG
- Hermann Wendland (1825–1903), German botanist
- Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), German mathematician
- Hermann A. Widemann (1822–1899), a German businessman and Kingdom of Hawaii cabinet member
- Hermann Wilken (1522–1603), German humanist and mathematician
- Hermann Winterhalter (1808–1891), German painter
- Hermann Zapf (born 1918), German typeface designer
Other
- Auftrag Hermann (English: Mission Start), the German term for starting a military mission (as for the so-called Operation Hermann)
- Hermann, Missouri, a town on the Missouri River in the United States
- Hermannstadt, German exonym for the city of Sibiu, Romania
- Hermann's Tortoise
- The German SC1000 bomb of WWII was nicknamed the "Hermann" by the British, in reference to Göring
See also