The name Herman was popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century, consistently ranking between 55 and 44 throughout the 1880–1914 period. Beginning with
World War I, the name's popularity entered a steady decline for the remainder of the twentieth century, falling below rank 1,000 in the year 2000. •
Herman (Aav), (1878–1961), head of the Orthodox Church of Finland •
Herman (Swaiko) (1932–2022), head of the Orthodox Church in America •
Herman Abban (born 1994), Ghanaian tennis player •
Hermán Aceros (1938–2018), Colombian footballer •
Herman M. Albert (1901–1947), American lawyer and politician •
Herman D. Aldrich (1801–1880), American businessman •
Herman Barron (1909–1978), American professional golfer •
Herman Berendsen (1934–2019), Dutch chemist •
Herman Berlinski (1910–2001), German-born American composer and conductor •
Herman Bouma (born 1934), Dutch vision researcher and gerontechnologist •
Herman Cain (1945–2020), American businessman, talk show host, and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination •
Herman Carroll Sr (born 1952) American fugitive •
Herman Dreer (1888–1981), American academic administrator, educational reformer and activist, author, editor, minister, and civil rights leader •
Herman Louis Duhring Jr. (1874-1953), American architect •
Herman Edwards (born 1954), known as Herm Edwards, American football player and coach •
Herman Becker Fast (1887-1938), American businessman, farmer, politician •
Herman Fishman (1917–1967), American basketball player and baseball player •
Herman Goldstein (1939–2020), American criminologist •
Herman Goldstine (1913–2004), American mathematician and computer scientist •
Herman Haupt (1817-1905), American railway engineer •
Herman W. Hellman (1843–1906), German-born American Jewish businessman •
Herman Johannes (1912–1992), Indonesian professor, scientist, and politician •
Herman José (born 1954), Portuguese showman, singer, and comedian •
Herman Leenders (born 1960), Flemish writer and poet •
Herman Li (李康敏
Lǐ Kāng Mǐn, born 1976), Chinese musician •
Herman Lieberman (1870–1941), Polish lawyer and politician •
Herman Long (disambiguation), multiple people •
Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953), American screenwriter •
Herman Keh (郭坤耀, born 1996), Singaporean actor and model •
Herman Francis Mark (1895–1992), Austrian-American chemist •
Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist •
Herman A. Metz (1867–1934), German-born American U.S. Representative from New York and New York City Comptroller and businessman •
Herman Miller (Wisconsin politician) (1833–1922), American politician •
Herman Miller (writer) (1919–1999), American screenwriter and film producer •
Herman Redemeijer (1930–2020), Dutch politician •
Herman Salmon (1913–1980), American barnstormer, air racer, and test pilot •
Herman Shaw (1892–1950), British geophysicist and museum director •
Herman Leonard de Silva (1928–2009), Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations •
Herman Slater (1938–1992), American Wiccan high priest •
Herman Smetanin (born 1992), Ukrainian defense industry management executive •
Herman Stump (1837–1917), American politician •
Herman Suselbeek (born 1943), Dutch rower •
Herman Terrado (born 1989), Guam-born American mixed martial artist •
Herman van Bekkum (1932–2020), Dutch chemist •
Herman Van der Wee (born 1928), Belgian economic historian •
Herman van Praag (born 1929), Dutch psychiatrist •
Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk (born 1948), Brazilian chess player •
Herman Van Rompuy (born 1947), Belgian politician, first President of the European Council •
Herman Van Springel (1943–2022), Belgian cyclist •
Herman van Veen (born 1945), Dutch stage performer, actor, musician, singer/songwriter and author •
Herman Vedel (1875–1948), Danish painter •
Herman Wirth (1885–1981), Dutch-German lay historian and scholar •
Herman Wouk (1915–2019), American author •
Herman Zetterberg (1904–1963), Swedish jurist and politician ; Stage name •
Peter Noone (born 1947), English singer-songwriter and actor, stage name Herman as leader of the pop group Herman's Hermits ==Fictional characters==