Name Delbert - meaning, origin, numerology

Delbert is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

• John Delbert Van Allen, retail dry goods merchant and department store owner who came to Clinton, Iowa in 1892
• Delbert Baker, Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, educator, and administrator
• Delbert Black (1922–2000), the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, from 1967 to 1971
• Samuel Delbert Clark, OC (1910–2003), Canadian sociologist
• Ira Delbert Cotnam (1883–1966), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons
• Delbert Cowsette (born 1977), former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League
• Delbert Daisey (born 1924), known as Cigar Daisey, American waterfowl wood carver
• Delbert Fowler (born 1958), former American football player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League
• Delbert Ray Fulkerson (1924–1976), mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm
• William Delbert Gann (1878–1955), finance trader who developed technical analysis tools
• Delbert Gee, judge of the Superior Court of California (USA) in Alameda County since 2002
• Delbert Genereau (1919–1988), hockey coach in Minnesota in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
• Delbert W. Halsey (1919–1942), United States Navy officer, received the Navy Cross posthumously for actions in World War II
• Delbert Hosemann (born 1947), the Republican Secretary of State of Mississippi
• Delbert O. Jennings (1936–2003), United States Army soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in the Vietnam War
• Delbert Kirsch, Canadian provincial politician
• Delbert Lamb (1914–2010), American speed skater who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics and in the 1948 Winter Olympics
• Delbert Latta* or Del Latta (born 1920), former member of the United States House of Representatives
• Delbert Mann (1920–2007), American television and film director
• Delbert McClinton (born 1940), American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player and pianist
• Delbert Miller, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• G. Delbert Morris (1909–1987), United States Republican politician who served in the California legislature
• Delbert Philpott (1923–2005), American soldier and scientist
• Delbert Riley, Canadian First Nations leader of Chippewa background
• Delbert Lee Scott (born 1949), businessman and politician from Missouri
• Delbert Spurlock (born 1941), US Assistant Secretary of the Army (1980–1989), Deputy Secretary of Labor (1991–1993)
• Delbert L. Stapley (1896–1978), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1950–1978)
• Harry Delbert Thiers (1919–2000), American mycologist
• Delbert D. Thiessen or Del Thiessen, American psychology professor emeritus
• Delbert Tibbs (1939–2013), American man wrongfully convicted of murder and rape in 1974 and sentenced to death
• Delbert Leroy True (1923–2001), archaeologist who worked in California, particularly San Diego County, and in northern Chile
• Delbert E. Webb or Del Webb (1899–1974), American real estate developer and a co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball club
• Delbert Wilkins or Lenny Henry, CBE (born 1958), British actor, writer, comedian, co-founder of Comic Relief
• Delbert E. Wong (1920–2006), the first Chinese American judge in the continental United States
• Delbert Yocam or Del Yocam (born 1943), American technology executive

English (borne mainly by Blacks): apparently a modern coinage, composed of the name elements Del- (see Delmar and Delroy) + -bert. In the 1980s it was adopted by the comedian Lenny Henry as the name of one of his comic creations, Delbert Wilkins.

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