# Delbert > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Delbert > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Delbert.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delbert > Source revision: 1314968326 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Delbert** is a given name. It is a short form of [Adelbert](/source/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](/source/Delbert_F._Anderson) (1919–1999), American farmer and politician - [Delbert Baker](/source/Delbert_Baker), Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, educator, and administrator - [Delbert Black](/source/Delbert_Black) (1922–2000), the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, from 1967 to 1971 - [Delbert Cowsette](/source/Delbert_Cowsette) (born 1977), former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League - [Delbert Daisey](/source/Delbert_Daisey) (1924–2017), known as Cigar Daisey, American waterfowl wood carver - [Delbert Day](/source/Delbert_Day), American engineer and co-inventor of TheraSphere glass microspheres and glasphalt - [Delbert Fowler](/source/Delbert_Fowler) (born 1958), former American football player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League - [D. R. Fulkerson](/source/D._R._Fulkerson) (1924–1976), mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm - [Delbert Gee](/source/Delbert_Gee), judge of the Superior Court of California (USA) in Alameda County since 2002 - [Delbert W. Halsey](/source/Delbert_W._Halsey) (1919–1942), United States Navy officer, received the Navy Cross posthumously for actions in World War II - [Delbert Hosemann](/source/Delbert_Hosemann) (born 1947), the Republican Secretary of State of Mississippi - [Delbert O. Jennings](/source/Delbert_O._Jennings) (1936–2003), United States Army soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in the Vietnam War - [Delbert Kirsch](/source/Delbert_Kirsch), Canadian provincial politician - [Delbert Lamb](/source/Delbert_Lamb) (1914–2010), American speed skater who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics and in the 1948 Winter Olympics - [Del Latta](/source/Del_Latta) (1920–2016), former member of the United States House of Representatives - [Delbert Mann](/source/Delbert_Mann) (1920–2007), American television and film director - [Delbert McClinton](/source/Delbert_McClinton) (born 1940), American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player and pianist - [Delbert Miller](/source/Delbert_Miller), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly - [G. Delbert Morris](/source/G._Delbert_Morris) (1909–1987), United States Republican politician who served in the California legislature - [Delbert Paris](/source/Delbert_Paris), Dominican politician - [Delbert Philpott](/source/Delbert_Philpott) (1923–2005), American soldier and scientist - [Delbert Riley](/source/Delbert_Riley), Canadian First Nations leader of Chippewa background - [Delbert Lee Scott](/source/Delbert_Lee_Scott) (born 1949), businessman and politician from Missouri - [Delbert Spurlock](/source/Delbert_Spurlock) (born 1941), US Assistant Secretary of the Army (1980–1989), Deputy Secretary of Labor (1991–1993) - [Delbert L. Stapley](/source/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](/source/Del_Thiessen), American psychology professor emeritus - [Del Thompson](/source/Del_Thompson) (born 1958), American football player - [Delbert Tibbs](/source/Delbert_Tibbs) (1939–2013), American man wrongfully convicted of murder and rape in 1974 and sentenced to death - [Delbert Leroy True](/source/Delbert_Leroy_True) (1923–2001), archaeologist who worked in California, particularly San Diego County, and in northern Chile - [Del Webb](/source/Del_Webb) (1899–1974), American real estate developer and a co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball club - [Delbert E. Wong](/source/Delbert_E._Wong) (1920–2006), the first Chinese American judge in the continental United States - [Del Yocam](/source/Del_Yocam) (born 1943), American technology executive ## See also - [USS Delbert W. Halsey (DE-310)](/source/USS_Delbert_W._Halsey_(DE-310)), United States Navy Evarts-class destroyer escort launched during World War II but never completed - [Delbert and Ora Chipman House](/source/Delbert_and_Ora_Chipman_House) on E. Main St. in American Fork, Utah, built c. 1870s - [Delbert W. Meier House](/source/Delbert_W._Meier_House), modest houses designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright - [Debert](/source/Debert) - [Dehl Berti](/source/Dehl_Berti) - [Dilbert (disambiguation)](/source/Dilbert_(disambiguation)) - [Elbert (disambiguation)](/source/Elbert_(disambiguation)) - [Gondelbert](/source/Gondelbert) - [Wandelbert](/source/Wandelbert_(disambiguation)) Name list This page or section lists people that share the same [given name](/source/Given_name). 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