Herring (surname)
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Herring is or was the family name
of the following:
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
of the following:
- Aggie HerringAggie HerringAggie Herring was an American actress. She appeared in 119 films between 1915 and 1939.She was born in San Francisco, California and died in Santa Monica, California.-Selected filmography:* Daredevil Jack...
(1876–1939), U.S. actress - Alfred Cecil HerringAlfred Cecil HerringMajor Alfred Cecil Herring VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
(1888–1966), Royal Army Service Corps officer - Annie HerringAnnie HerringAnnie Herring is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. She was more notably a part of the trio, 2nd Chapter of Acts in which she wrote most of the songs and sang lead and harmony vocals with her brother Matthew Ward and sister Nelly Greisen...
, U.S. Christian singer - Art HerringArt HerringArthur L. Herring born in Altus, Oklahoma was a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers , Brooklyn Dodgers , Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates ....
(1906–1995) , U.S. baseball player - Aubrey HerringAubrey HerringAubrey Herring is an American track and field athlete.He was born September 19, 1978 in Oklahoma and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana in 1994 where he attended Warren Central High School and graduated in 1996. Aubrey was the 1996 Indiana State Champion in the 110M high hurdles and runner-up in the...
, U.S. track and field athlete - Augustus Moore HerringAugustus Moore HerringAugustus Moore Herring was an American aviation pioneer, who flew a compressed-air powered aircraft in 1898, five years before the Wright Brothers made their own powered flight. It has been claimed that he was the first aviator of a motorized heavier-than-air aircraft.-Biography:Herring was born...
(1865–1926), U.S. aviation pioneer - Ben HerringBen HerringBen Herring is a former rugby union player who played for Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership. His position is flanker. Herring missed out a 2007 Super 14 rugby contract with any New Zealand Super 14 team, and negotiated a move to join the Leicester Tigers in early 2007...
(born 1980), New Zealand rugby union footballer - Caroline HerringCaroline HerringCaroline Herring is a country and folk singer-songwriter. Born in Canton, Mississippi, she has lived in Oxford, Mississippi and Austin, Texas, but now lives in Atlanta with her son, daughter, and husband. Many of her songs deal with slavery and her Mississippi upbringing...
, singer-songwriter - Daren Herring (born 1966), Welsh National F2 Rally Champion 1993, Songwriter, Producer
- Bill HerringBill HerringWilliam Arthur "Bill" Herring was a minor league baseball pitcher, player-manager and general manager.-Early life:Herring was born in Seven Springs, South Carolina and graduated with a law degree from Wake Forest but decided to pursue a baseball career. He debuted in 1935 with the Portsmouth...
, U.S. baseball player - Clyde L. HerringClyde L. HerringClyde LaVerne Herring , an American politician and Democrat, served as the 26th Governor of Iowa, and then one of its U.S. Senators, during the last part of the Great Depression and the first part of World War II....
(1879–1945), U.S. politician - Conyers HerringConyers HerringConyers Herring was an American physicist. He was Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University and the Wolf Prize in Physics recipient in 1984/5.-Academic career:...
(born 1914), U.S. physicist - Corey Herring, U.S. basketball player
- Dennis HerringDennis HerringDennis Herring is an American record producer, engineer, mixer, and musician. Herring has produced for The Hives, Elvis Costello, Counting Crows, Modest Mouse, Camper Van Beethoven, and Jars of Clay. Herring owns a 24-track recording studio, Sweet Tea Studios, which is located in Oxford, Mississippi...
, U.S. record producer - E. Pendleton HerringE. Pendleton HerringE. Pendleton Herring was an American political scientist who served as Director of the Bureau of the Budget, as Secretary of graduate education at Harvard University, and in numerous other academic and public roles...
(1903–2004), U.S. political scientist - Edmund HerringEdmund HerringLieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, KCMG, KBE, DSO, MC, KStJ, ED, QC was an Australian Army officer during the Second World War, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.A Rhodes scholar, Herring was at New College, Oxford, when the First World...
(1892–1982), Australian Army officer - Eli HerringEli HerringEli Herring is a former Brigham Young University offensive tackle who decided not to play in the National Football League for religious reasons involving working on the Sabbath and made his intention clear to all NFL teams prior to the 1995 NFL draft. Nonetheless, the devout Mormon was drafted in...
, U.S. football player - Hal HerringHal HerringHal M. Herring is a former American football Center and coach. He played college football at Auburn University and professionally for the Buffalo Bills in the All-America Football Conference and the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League.-College career:Herring graduated from Auburn...
(born 1924), U.S. football player and coach - Hank HerringHank HerringHorace H. "Hank" Herring was a former US boxer. Herring was the Welterweight Silver Medalist at the 1948 London Olympic Games. Herring lost in the final to Julius Torma of Czechoslovakia....
(1922–1999), U.S. boxer - Heath HerringHeath HerringHeath Herring is an inactive American Heavyweight professional mixed martial artist who attained popularity fighting for PRIDE FC in Japan and most recently fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
(born 1978), U.S. mixed martial artist - Horace Herring (1884–1962), New Zealand politician
- James Red HerringJames Red HerringJames Bryan Herring, also known as Red Herring, was a boxer and a champion in the light welterweight division.Herring was born on March 19, 1896, in Paducah, Kentucky, and began boxing in 1913 when he won a bout as a featherweight by KO, fighting on a benefit card for striking railroad workers in...
(1896–1974), U.S. boxer - James V. HerringJames V. HerringJames Vernon Herring was an African American artist and professor of art at Howard University.James V. Herring founded the Howard University Department of Art in 1922. In 1943 along with Alonzo J. Aden he opened the Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington DC.* Biography...
(1887–1969), U.S. artist - Jimmy HerringJimmy HerringJimmy Herring is an American guitarist who is currently the lead guitarist in the band Widespread Panic. Herring is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit and Jazz is Dead...
(born 1962), U.S. rock guitarist - Joanne HerringJoanne HerringJoanne Herring is a Houston socialite, political activist, businesswoman, and former talk show host.In the 1980s Herring played a role in helping U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson persuade the U.S. government to train and arm Mujahideen resistance fighters to fight in the Soviet war in...
(born 1929), U.S. entrepreneur, philanthropist, and talk show host - John Frederick Herring, Sr.John Frederick Herring, Sr.John Frederick Herring, Sr. , also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England.John F. Herring, Sr. is the painter of the 1848 "Pharoah's Chariot Horses"...
(1795–1865), British painter - John Frederick Herring, Jr.John Frederick Herring, Jr.John Frederick Herring, Jr. was an English painter who is best known for his equine art.Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, he was a son of painter John Frederick Herring, Sr. .-Life and work:...
(1820–1907), British painter - Kim HerringKim HerringKimani 'Kim' Masai Herring is a former American football safety in the National Football League.-High school years:...
(born 1975), U.S. football player - Louise McCarren HerringLouise McCarren HerringLouise McCarren Herring , an Ohio native, is recognized as one of the pioneer leaders of the not-for-profit cooperative credit union movement in the United States...
(1909–1987), U.S. cooperative activist - Lynn HerringLynn HerringSheryl Lynn Herring is an American soap opera actress.-Early life:Before acting, Herring was Miss Virginia USA 1977, and was 4th runner-up to Kimberly Tomes for the title of Miss USA 1977...
(born 1958), U.S. soap opera actress - Mark HerringMark HerringMark R. Herring is an American politician. A Democrat, he was elected to the Senate of Virginia, in a special election on January 31, 2006, winning against Republican candidate Mick Staton...
(born 1961), U.S. politician - Mary HerringMary HerringDame Mary Ranken Lyle Herring, DBE, CStJ was an Australian physician and community worker.-Early life:Born the eldest of four children of Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle, a mathematical physicist, and his wife, Frances Isobel Clare Millear, she attended Toorak College between 1906 and 1912, and she...
(1895–1981), Australian physician and community worker - Percy Theodore HerringPercy Theodore HerringPercy Theodore Herring was a physician and physiologist, notable for first describing Herring bodies in the posterior pituitary gland....
(1872–1967) New Zealand physician - Reggie HerringReggie Herring-External links:*...
(born 1959), U.S. football coach - Richard HerringRichard HerringRichard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
(born 1967), British comedian - Robert Herring (poet)Robert Herring (poet)Robert Herring was a Scottish writer and poet, remembered as an early film critic and editor of the significant literary magazine, Life and Letters Today....
, Scottish poet - Robert Herring (businessman), U.S. entrepreneur
- Rufus G. HerringRufus G. HerringRufus Geddie Herring was a United States Naval Reserve officer and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
(1921–1996), United States Naval Reserve officer - Sydney HerringSydney HerringBrigadier General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring CMG, DSO, VD was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I. He retired in 1946 as an honorary brigadier general.-Early life and career:...
(1881–1951), Australian Army colonel - Thomas HerringThomas HerringThomas Herring was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1747 to 1757.He was educated at Wisbech Grammar School and later Jesus College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a contemporary of Matthew Hutton, who succeeded him in turn in each of his dioceses...
(1693–1757), Archbishop of Canterbury - Vincent HerringVincent HerringVincent Herring is an American jazz hard bop and post-bop saxophonist and flautist.-Biography:Herring's formal musical education began at age 11, when he started playing saxophone in school bands and studying privately at Dean Frederick's School Of Music in Vallejo, California...
(born 1964), U.S. jazz saxophonist - Will HerringWill HerringWilliam Ronald Herring is an American football linebacker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Auburn....
(born 1983), U.S. football player
Fictional character
- Albert HerringAlbert HerringAlbert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten.Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia...
, from the 1947 comic chamber opera by Benjamin Britten - A henchman of Dictator Adenoid Hynkel in The Great DictatorThe Great DictatorThe Great Dictator is a comedy film by Charlie Chaplin released in October 1940. Like most Chaplin films, he wrote, produced, and directed, in addition to starring as the lead. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was...
See also
- Herring (disambiguation)Herring (disambiguation)- Military :* Operation Herring, a WWII combat air drop.* USS Herring , a WWII era submarine.* HMS Herring , a Royal Navy schooner....
- Red herringRed herringA red herring is a deliberate attempt to divert attention.Red herring may refer to:* Red herring , the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question....
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