Huber
Huber is a surname of German language origin. It derives from the German word Hube meaning hide, a unit of land a farmer might possess. It is in the top ten most common surnames in the German-speaking world, especially in Austria and Switzerland where it is the surname of approximately 0.3% of the population.
Variants arising from varying dialectal pronunciation of the surname include Hueber, Huemer, Humer, Haumer, Huebmer and (anglicized) Hoover.
Map showing frequency distribution of the surname Huber in Germany. A clear increase in frequency is seen as one moves south towards the Austrian border.
People with the surname Huber
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- Alexander Huber (born 1968), German climber and mountaineer
- Alexander Huber (football) (born 1985), German football player
- Alyson Huber (born 1972), Californian legislator elected to the State Assembly in 2008
- Anja Huber (born 1983), German skeleton racer
- Anke Huber (born 1974), German former tennis player
B
- Bruno Huber (1930–1999), Swiss astrologer, husband of Louise Huber
C
- Cheri Huber (born c. 1944), American independent Soto Zen teacher
- Chuck Huber (born 1971), American voice actor
D
- Don Huber (born 1957), retired American Soccer (Football) forward
E
- Erwin Huber (born 1946), German conservative politician
F
- François Huber (1750–1831), Swiss naturalist
- Franz Josef Huber (1902–1975), SS general and Generalmajor der Polizei in Austria
G
- Gerold Huber (born 1969), German pianist
- Gregory Huber (born 1971), American legislator and jurist
- Gusti Huber (1914–1993), Austrian-American actress
H
- Harold Huber (1909–1959), American character actor of the 1930s/1940s
- Herbert Huber (1931–2005), German botanist
- Herbert Huber (1944–1970), Austrian skier
- Hermann J. Huber (1954–2009), German writer and journalist
- Herta Huber (born 1926), German writer and poet
J
- Jacques Huber (1867–1914), Swiss-Brazilian botanist
- JoKarl Huber (1902–1996), German artist
- Jon Huber (born 1979), American professional wrestler better known as (Luke) Harper
- Jon Huber (born 1981), former American baseball pitcher
- Justin Huber (born 1982), Australian baseball player
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- Klaus Huber (1924–2017), Swiss composer and academic teacher
- Kurt Huber (1893–1943), German professor, executed by the Nazis in 1943
- Kurt Huber (tenor) (born 1937), Swiss tenor
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- Larry Huber (born 1950), American television producer, writer, and animator
- Lee Huber (1919–2005), American basketball player
- Liezel Huber (born 1976), South African tennis player
- Liza Huber (born 1975), American television actress
- Lotti Huber (1912–1998), German actress
- Louise Huber (1930–1999), Swiss astrologer, wife of Bruno Huber
M
- Max Huber (disambiguation), multiple people
N
- Nicolaus A. Huber (born 1939), German composer
- Norbert Huber (born 1964), Italian former luger
O
- Oscar E. Huber (1917–2017), American politician, rancher, and farmer
P
- Peter J. Huber (born 1934), Swiss statistician
- Peter W. Huber (born 1952), American writer and lawyer
- Pierre Antoine François Huber (1775–1832), French general
R
- Robert Huber (born 1937), German biochemist
- Robert Huber (engineer) (1901–1995), Swiss engineer
- Robert Huber (sport shooter) (1878–1946), Finnish former sport shooter
- Robert J. Huber (1922–2001), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Rupert Huber (born 1967), Austrian composer and musician
S
- Sophie Huber (born 1985), French freestyle swimmer
T
- Therese Huber (1764–1829), German author
- Thomas Huber (born 1966), German climber and mountaineer
- Tomáš Huber, Czech footballer
- Tytus Maksymilian Huber (1872–1950), Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist
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- Ulrik Huber (1636–1694), Dutch jurist
V
- Vernon Huber (1899–1967), 36th Governor of American Samoa
- Victor Aimé Huber (1800–1869), German social reformer, travel writer and a literature historian
W
- Wilfried Huber (born 1970), Italian luger
- William Russel Huber (1903–1982), US Navy sailor, Medal of Honor awardee
- Willie Huber (1958–2010), German born professional ice hockey defenceman
- Wolf Huber (c. 1485–1553), Austrian painter
- Wolfgang Huber (born 1942), German former bishop
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