Malherbe is a surname of French origin. It is common in South Africa due to the immigration of Huguenots in the late 17th century.[1][2]

Notable people with the surname include:

de Malherbe family from Normandy, France

  • François de Malherbe (1555-1628), French poet, reformer of French language
  • Marc-Antoine de Malherbe (1600-1627), duellist, son of the poet François de Malherbe
  • Jean-Baptiste-Antoine de Malherbe (1712-1771), archbishop of Tours
  • Jean de Malherbe (1911-1983), author in political and economic sciences

de Malherbe family from Maine, France

  • Raymond de Malherbe (1826-1891), French politician, senator
  • Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe (1894-1966), recognised "Righteous Among the Nations"
  • Guy de Malherbe (born 1958), French painter
  • Apolline de Malherbe (born 1980), television journalist

Malherbe family from South Africa

Malherbe families from Belgium

  • Jean-François Malherbe (1950-2015), Belgian philosopher and writer
  • André Malherbe (1956–2022), Belgian Grand Prix motocross racer
  • Anne Malherbe Gosselin (born 1968), Belgian spouse of Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017

Others

  • Alfred Malherbe (1804–1865), French magistrate and naturalist
  • Annet Malherbe (born 1957), Dutch actress
  • Arnaud Malherbe (director) (born 1972), French script writer and director
  • Charles Théodore Malherbe (1853-1911), French violinist, musicologist, music editor and composer
  • Delphine de Malherbe (born 1973), French writer and play director
  • Didier Malherbe (born 1943), French rock and jazz saxophonist
  • Edmond Malherbe (1870-1963), French composer
  • Guy Malherbe (born 1946), French politician, mayor and member of the National Assembly
  • Henri de Malherbe (fl. 1910–1932), French international rugby union player (list of selections) and chairman of SC Mazamet
  • Henry Malherbe (1886–1958), journalist and French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1917
  • Hermeline Malherbe (born 1969), French politician, senator
  • Jean Fontaine-Malherbe (c. 1740–1780), French writer
  • Jean-François Boursault-Malherbe (1750-1842), French revolutionary and theater director
  • Joseph Anne Robert Malherbe (1758-1841), French politician and magistrate
  • Michel Malherbe (encyclopaedist) (born 1930), French civil engineer and encyclopedist
  • Michel Malherbe (philosopher) (born 1941), French philosopher
  • Óscar Malherbe de León (born 1964), Mexican drug lord
  • Pierre-Olivier Malherbe (ca. 1569 - ca. 1616), French explorer
  • Suzanne Malherbe (1892–1972), French illustrator and photographer

See also

References

  1. Donaldson, Bruce C. (1993). "Pronunciation". A Grammar of Afrikaans. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 22–23. ISBN 9783110134261. Retrieved 3 July 2017 via Google Books.
  2. Watkinson, William Lonsdale; Davison, William Theophilus, eds. (1875). "William Shaw and South Africa". The London Quarterly Review. Vol. 44. J.A. Sharp. p. 274. Retrieved 7 July 2017 via Google Books.
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