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.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftzioRvJzTUC&pg=PA22 |title=A Grammar of Afrikaans |last=Donaldson |first=Bruce C. |chapter=Pronunciation |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=9783110134261 |pages=22–23 |year=1993 |access-date=3 July 2017 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNQ5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA274 |title=The London Quarterly Review |volume=44 |chapter=William Shaw and South Africa |editor1-last=Watkinson |editor1-first=William Lonsdale |editor2-last=Davison |editor2-first=William Theophilus |publisher=J.A. Sharp |page=274 |year=1875 |access-date=7 July 2017 |via=Google Books}}
Notable people with the surname include:
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de Malherbe family from Normandy, France
- François de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, reformer of French language
- {{ill|Marc-Antoine de Malherbe|fr}} (1600–1627), duellist, son of the poet François de Malherbe
- {{ill|Jean-Baptiste-Antoine de Malherbe|fr}} (1712–1771), archbishop of Tours
- {{ill|Jean de Malherbe|fr}} (1911–1983), author in political and economic sciences
de Malherbe family from Maine, France
- {{ill|Raymond de Malherbe|fr}} (1826–1891), French politician, senator
- {{ill|Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe|fr}} (1894–1966), recognised "Righteous Among the Nations"
- {{ill|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
- {{ill|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
- {{ill|Arnaud Malherbe (director)|fr|Arnaud Malherbe (réalisateur)}} (born 1972), French script writer and director
- Charles Théodore Malherbe (1853–1911), French violinist, musicologist, music editor and composer
- {{ill|Delphine de Malherbe|fr}} (born 1973), French writer and play director
- Didier Malherbe (born 1943), French rock and jazz saxophonist
- {{ill|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
- {{ill|Jean Fontaine-Malherbe|fr}} (c. 1740–1780), French writer
- {{ill|Jean-François Boursault-Malherbe|fr}} (1750–1842), French revolutionary and theater director
- {{ill|Joseph Anne Robert Malherbe|fr}} (1758–1841), French politician and magistrate
- {{ill|Michel Malherbe (encyclopaedist)|fr|Michel Malherbe (encyclopédiste)}} (born 1930), French civil engineer and encyclopedist
- {{ill|Michel Malherbe (philosopher)|fr|Michel Malherbe (philosophe)}} (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