Herring (family name)
Hering is a family name:
Name bearer
A.
- Adolf Hering (1863–1932), German painter and illustrator
- Anton Hering († 1610), German lawyer and Oldenburg civil servant
- Artur Hering (* 1955), German soccer player
- August Gottlieb Ludwig Hering (1736–1770), German lawyer, poet of evangelical sacred songs
B.
- Bernd Hering (painter) (1924–2013), German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and art educator
- Bernd Hering (politician) (1946–2015), German politician (SPD)
- Bernhard Hering (* 1960), German musician, composer and producer
- Bertolt Hering (* 1961), German painter, filmmaker and color researcher
- Bettina Hering (* 1960), Swiss dramaturge, director and theater manager
- Björn Hering (* 1978), Swiss television presenter and entrepreneur
- Bruno Hering (1892–1974), German doctor and professional official
C.
- Carl Hering (engineer) (1860–1926), American electrical engineer
- Carl Hering (Admiral) (1868–1948), German rear admiral
- Carl Eduard Hering (1807–1879), teacher, organist and composer
- Carl Gottlieb Hering (1766–1853), Saxon composer
- Carl Wilhelm Hering (1790–1871), German pastor and chronicler
- Christina Hering (* 1994), German athlete
- Christoph Hering (* 1939), German mathematician
- Constantin Hering (1800–1880), German-American homeopath
D.
- Daniel Heinrich Hering (1722–1807), German Evangelical Reformed senior consistorial councilor and author
- Doris Hering (1920–2014), American dancer and dance critic
E.
- Eduard von Hering (1799–1881), German veterinarian
- Ekbert Hering (* 1943), German physicist and economist
- Elisabeth Hering (1909–1999), German writer
- Erich Hering (painter) (1923–1978), German painter and graphic artist
- Erich Martin Hering (1893–1967), German entomologist
- Ernst Hering (writer) (1888–1957), German educator and writer
- Ernst Hering (entrepreneur) (1895 – after 1962), German builder and entrepreneur
- Ernstgeorg Hering (* 1942), German theater director and dramaturge
- Ewald Hering ( Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering ; 1834-1918), German physiologist
F.
- Franz Hering (1902–1990), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Friedrich von Hering (1794–1871), Prussian lieutenant general
- Friedrich Hering (1845–1899), German blacksmith, wagon builder and company founder
G
- Geo Hering (1903–1970), German journalist and writer
- Georg Hering (1884–1936), German painter, active in the Netherlands since 1910
- Gerhard F. Hering (1908–1996), German journalist, director and theater manager
- Gottlieb Hering (1887–1945), German police officer and camp commandant of the Belzec extermination camp
- Gunnar Hering (1934–1994), German historian and neo-Greekist
H
- Hans Hering (1853–1924), German lieutenant general
- Hartmut Hering (* 1929), German entrepreneur
- Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866–1948), Austrian physician
- Helene Hering-Herber (1946–2016), German artist
- Hendrik Hering (* 1964), German politician (SPD)
- Hermann Hering (politician) (1821–1887), German lawyer and politician
- Hermann Ferdinand Julius Hering (1838–1920), German Protestant theologian
- Herrmann Hering (1800–1886), German high school teacher, historian and entomologist
J
- Jackie Hering (* 1985), American triathlete
- Jacob Hering (1698–1774), German engraver
- Jakob Hering (politician) (1894–1986), German leather worker and persecuted by the Nazi regime, 1946 representative of the people in the state of Württemberg-Baden
- Jette Hering (* 1993), German actress
- Johann Hering (politician) (1599–1658), German lawyer and Oldenburg statesman
- Johann Samuel Hering (1683–1752), German lawyer, historian and high school teacher
- Johanna Hering (also Olga Eschenbach ; 1821–1884), German writer for young people
- Jürgen Hering (* 1937), German librarian
- Jutta Hering (1924–2012), German film editor
- Jutta Hering-Winckler (* 1948), German lawyer and opera producer
K
- Karl Hering (politician) (1804– ??), politician, Lord Mayor of Szczecin
- Karl Friedrich Hering (1897– ??), German pastor and author
- Karl-Heinz Hering (1928–2015), German art historian
- Karl-Josef Hering (1929–1998), German singer (tenor)
- Karl Wilhelm August Hering (1749–1802), German lawyer and politician
- Katharina Hering (* 1995), German tennis player
- Katrin Hering (* 1967), German basketball player
- Kristof Hering (* 1989), German singer
- Kurt Hering (violinist) (1870 – after 1930), German violinist
- Kurt Hering (1880–1969), German machine and apparatus manufacturer
L.
- Loy Hering (1484–1564), German sculptor
- Ludwig Hering (1589–1628), painter from Württemberg
M.
- Mandy Hering (* 1984), German handball player
- Manfred Hering (* 1939), German jazz saxophonist
- Maria Hering (* 1987), German singer, actress and fitness blogger
- Markus Hering (* 1960), German actor
- Matthias Benoni Hering (1693–1750), German professor of law
- Michael Hering (* 1964), German art historian
N
- Norbert Hering (1907–1991), German politician
O
- Oscar Hering (1814–1884), German horticultural architect, court gardener and gardening director of Düsseldorf
- Otto Hering ( Otto Bernhard Hering ; 1859–1929), German Protestant pastor, theologian and teacher at the German Association School in Tokyo until 1890
P
- Peter Hering (* 1959), German basketball player
- Pierre Héring (1874–1963), French military
R.
- Rainer Hering (* 1961), German archivist and historian
- Richard Hering (composer) (1856–1943), German lawyer, editor, music critic and composer
- Richard Hering (cook) (1873–1936), Austrian cook
- Robert Hering (* 1990), German athlete
- Rudolf Hering (entrepreneur) (1868–1936), German entrepreneur and company founder
- Rudolf Hering (chemist) (1931–2016), German chemist and university professor
- Rudolph Hering (Bergrat) (1803–1888), German mountain official
- Rudolph Hering (environmental technician) (1847–1923), American engineer and environmental technician
S.
- Sabine Hering (* 1947), German social worker
- Sabrina Hering-Pradler (* 1992), German canoeist
- Sebastian Hering (1910–1978), German wrestler
- Stefan Hering (* 1972), German film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck (* 1967), German zoologist
- Stefanie Hering (* 1967), German designer and ceramic master
T
- Thomas Hering (basketball player) (* 1966), German basketball player
- Thomas Hering (politician) (* 1971), German police officer and politician
- Thomas Hering (economist) (* 1967 in Unna), German economist
- Thomas Hering (politician) (* 1971), German police officer and politician (CDU), MdL
W.
- Walter Hering (1910–1937), German communist and resistance fighter
- Werner Hering (1930–2012), German politician (SED)
- Wilhelm Hering (1843–1912), German entrepreneur and member of the Saxon state parliament
- Wilhelm T. Hering (* 1928), German physicist and university professor
- William Hering (1812–1897), German Protestant pastor and politician, MdL
- Wolfgang Hering (1928–1986), German classical philologist
- Wolfgang Hering (musician) (* 1954), German musician and children's songwriter