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

Given name

;Royalty and Middle Ages

  • 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

;Others

  • Humbert Achamer-Pifrader, Austrian jurist, member of the SS of Nazi Germany and commander of Einsatzgruppe A, one of the major perpetrators of the Holocaust
  • Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazilian military leader and politician, President of Brazil and the first President of the Brazilian military dictatorship
  • Humberto Delgado, General of the Portuguese Air Force, diplomat and politician
  • Humberto Ortega, Nicaraguan military leader and published writer, Minister of Defense of Nicaragua, one of the principal commanders of Sandinista revolution
  • Humbert Roque Versace, United States Army officer

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
  • Manon Humbert (born 1989), French curler
  • Marie Humbert, Ghanaian actress
  • Marie Georges Humbert (1859–1921), mathematician
  • Humbert surface
  • Pierre Humbert (architect) (1848–1919)
  • 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
  • Ugo Humbert (born 1998), French tennis player

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
  • Puff Puff 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