Herta
Herta may refer to the following:
Given name
[edit]- Herta Anitaș (born 1967) Romanian rower and Olympic medalist
- Herta Bothe (1921–2000), German guard at Nazi concentration camps
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin (born 1943), German politician, German Minister of Justice
- Herta Ehlert (1905–1997), German guard at many Nazi concentration camps
- Herta Elviste (1923-2016), Estonian actress
- Herta Feely (born ????), German-American editor, and child safety activist
- Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian-born American mathematician and professor
- Herta Groves, British hat designer
- Herta Haas (1914–2010), Yugoslav Partisan during World War II and second wife of Josip Broz Tito
- Herta Hafner, Italian luger
- Herta Herzog (1910–2010), Austrian-born American social scientist specializing in communication studies
- Herta Heuwer (1913–1999), German inventor of the take-out dish currywurst
- Herta Huber (1926–2018), German writer and poet
- Herta Laipaik (1921–2008), Estonian writer
- Herta Müller (born 1953), Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Herta Oberheuser (1911–1978), German physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- Herta Ratzenhofer (1921–2010), Austrian pair skater and Olympic competitor
- Herta Ware (1917–2005), American actress and political activist
- Herta Wescher (1899–1971), German art historian and art critic
- Herta Wunder (1913–1992), German freestyle swimmer and Olympic competitor
Surname
[edit]- Bryan Herta (born 1970), American race car driver
- Colton Herta (born 2000), American race car driver, son of Bryan Herta
- Teodor Herța, Bessarabian politician
Locations
[edit]- Herța River, a tributary of the Prut River in Romania
- Hertsa (Romanian: Herța), a city located in Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine
- The Hertsa region, a former Romanian region, now in Ukraine, occupied in 1940 by the Soviet Union as a result of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Other uses
[edit]- Herta Foods, brand of pre-cooked Frankfurters, owned by Nestlé
- "Herta", a type of drum rudiment
- Herta, a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail