Herschel (name)

Herschel is a family name that is rarely used as a first name.

The surname Herschel has several meanings:

Reduction of deer for a hunter or as a nickname ("nimble as a deer")
- as a Jewish family name derived from the Jacob's blessing with its animal comparisons, here Gen 49,21 GNB : Naftali is a fast deer ...
millet

The anglicized spelling is Hershel .

Well-known namesake

Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), German astronomer, sister of Wilhelm Herschel
Bernhard Herschel (1837–1905), Mannheim city councilor and businessman, founder of the Herschelbad
Hans Herschel (1875–1930), German politician (center)
Hasso Herschel (* 1935), escape helper on the German-German border
Jacob Herschel (1734–1792), concert music master
Sir John Herschel (also Johann Friedrich Wilhelm ; 1792–1871), chemist and astronomer, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, son of Wilhelm Herschel
Knut Herschel (1948–1999), German grandmaster in correspondence chess
(Friedrich) Wilhelm Herschel (later also William ; 1738–1822), German-British musician and astronomer, discoverer of the planet Uranus and infrared radiation
Otto Herschel (1871–1958), Austrian painter of Jewish descent
Wilhelm Herschel (lawyer) (1895–1986), German lawyer
William James Herschel , 2nd Baronet of Collingwood (1833–1917), British colonial administrator in Bengal, pioneer in dactyloscopy, son of John Herschel

First name

Herschel Daugherty (1910–1993), American film director
Herschel Evans (1909–1939), American swing jazz tenor saxophonist
Herschel Grynszpan (* 1921, lost in 1942) carried out an assassination attempt which the National Socialists used as a pretext for the November 1938 pogroms
Herschel Haft (1925-2006), American boxer of Polish origin, see Harry Haft
Herschel M. Hogg (1853–1934), American politician
Herschel C. Loveless (1911–1989), American politician and Governor of Iowa
Herschel McCoy (1912–1956), American costume designer
Herschel Savage (* 1952, actually Harvey Cowen), American porn actor
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (1812–1880), American politician and governor of Georgia
Herschel Walker (born 1962), American football player

fictional people

Herschel Krustofski alias Krusty, the clown , character from the television series The Simpsons , see characters from The Simpsons # Krusty, the clown (Herschel Krustofski)
Hershel Greene, a permanent role in the series The Walking Dead (TV series) , medics of the protagonist group.
Herschel Stamm, character in Jurek Becker's novel Jakob the Liar