Malherbe (surname)
# Malherbe (surname)

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

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 [fr] (1600-1627), duellist, son of the poet François de Malherbe
* Jean-Baptiste-Antoine de Malherbe [fr] (1712-1771), archbishop of Tours
* Jean de Malherbe [fr] (1911-1983), author in political and economic sciences

## de Malherbe family from Maine, France

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

## Malherbe family from South Africa

* Daniël Francois Malherbe (1881-1969), South-African Afrikaans-language novelist, poet, dramatist and scholar
* Arnaud Malherbe (born 1972), South-African athlete, 400 meters runner
* Frans Malherbe (born 1991), South-African international rugby union player
* Stephanie Malherbe (born 1996), South-African international football player

## Malherbe families from Belgium

* Jean-François Malherbe [fr] (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) [fr] (born 1972), French script writer and director
* Charles Théodore Malherbe (1853-1911), French violinist, musicologist, music editor and composer
* Delphine de Malherbe [fr] (born 1973), French writer and play director
* Didier Malherbe (born 1943), French rock and jazz saxophonist
* Edmond Malherbe [fr] (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 [fr] (c. 1740–1780), French writer
* Jean-François Boursault-Malherbe [fr] (1750-1842), French revolutionary and theater director
* Joseph Anne Robert Malherbe [fr] (1758-1841), French politician and magistrate
* Michel Malherbe (encyclopaedist) [fr] (born 1930), French civil engineer and encyclopedist
* Michel Malherbe (philosopher) [fr] (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
