Humbert

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Humbert (Latinized Humbertus) is a Germanic given name, from hun "warrior" and beraht "bright". It also came into use as a surname

Given name

• Emebert (died 710)
• Humbert of Maroilles (before 652 – 680)
• Humbert (bishop of Würzburg) (died 842)
• Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980 – 1047 or 1048)
• Humbert II, Count of Savoy (1065–1103)
• Humbert III, Count of Savoy (1135–1189)
• Humbert, bastard of Savoy (c.1318–1374), soldier
• Humbert V de Beaujeu (1198–1250)
• Humbert I of Viennois (1240–1307), Dauphin of the Viennois
• Humbert II of Viennois (1312–1355), Dauphin of the Viennois
• Humbert I of Italy (1844–1900)
• Humbert II of Italy (1904–1983)
• Humbert of Silva Candida (1015–1061), Roman Catholic cardinal and Benedictine oblate
• Humbert of Romans (died 1277), master general of the Dominicans

Surname

• Agnès Humbert (1894–1963), French art historian and member of the French Resistance during World War II, daughter of Charles Humbert
• Albert Jenkins Humbert (1822–1877), British architect
• Charles Humbert (1866–1927), French politician and newspaper proprietor, father of Agnès Humbert
• Christophe Humbert (born 1979), French judoka
• Gustav Humbert (born 1950), German CEO
• Jean-Henri Humbert (1887–1967), French botanist
• Jean Humbert (painter) (1734–1749), Dutch painter
• Jean Emile Humbert (1771–1839), Dutch military engineer who rediscovered ancient Carthage
• Jean Joseph Amable Humbert (1755–1823), French general
• Marie Georges Humbert (1859–1921), mathematician
  • Humbert surface
• Pierre Humbert (architect) (1848–????)
• Pierre Humbert (mathematician) (1891–1953), for whom are named:
  • Humbert polynomials
  • Humbert series
• Nicole Humbert (née Rieger) (born 1972), German pole vaulter
• Thérèse Humbert (1856–1918), French female fraudster

Companies

• Humbert Aviation, a French aircraft manufacturer

Fictional characters

• Humbert Humbert, narrator of the novel Lolita
• Baron Humbert von Gikkingen, an animated cat creation from Whisper of the Heart (film) and The Cat Returns
• PuffPuff Humbert, frontman of the virtual band Your Favorite Martian.
• Graham Humbert, character Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

See also

• Humbert, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département in France
• Humberht (disambiguation)
• Umberto, an Italian masculine given name
• Humberto, a Portuguese and Spanish masculine given name