Delbert

Delbert is a given name. It is a short form of Adelbert, which is a combination of the German words adal, meaning noble, and berht, meaning bright. Notable people with the name include:

  • Delbert F. Anderson (1919–1999), American farmer and politician
  • 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
  • Delbert Cowsette (born 1977), former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League
  • Delbert Daisey (1924–2017), known as Cigar Daisey, American waterfowl wood carver
  • Delbert Day, American engineer and co-inventor of TheraSphere glass microspheres and glasphalt
  • Delbert Fowler (born 1958), former American football player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League
  • D. R. Fulkerson (1924–1976), mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm
  • Delbert Gee, judge of the Superior Court of California (USA) in Alameda County since 2002
  • 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
  • Del Latta (1920–2016), 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)
  • Del Thiessen, American psychology professor emeritus
  • Del Thompson (born 1958), American football player
  • 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
  • Del Webb (1899–1974), American real estate developer and a co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball club
  • Delbert E. Wong (1920–2006), the first Chinese American judge in the continental United States
  • Del Yocam (born 1943), American technology executive