Herc may refer to:

People

Christián Herc Christián Herc (born 30 September 1998) is a Slovak professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda, Dunajská Streda and the Slovakia national football team, Slovak national team. Club c ...

(born 1998), Slovak footballer *

DJ Kool Herc Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican-American DJ who is credited with being the founder of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973. Nicknamed the Father of Hip-Hop, Campbe ...

(born 1955), Jamaican-born DJ credited with originating hip hop music * Ernest Alley (c. 1904 – 1971), American college football player and head coach and track athlete and head coach * Herc McIntyre, head of Universal Pictures in Australia from 1920 until the 1950s *Hercules Herc Vollugi (1880–1960), Australian rules footballer

Fictional characters

* Herc (''The Wire'') (Detective Thomas "Herc" Hauk), a fictional character on the HBO drama series ''The Wire'' *Herc (Hercules), the title character of the 1998 animated Disney TV series ''

Hercules Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures. The Romans adapted the Gr ...

'' *Dr. Herman "Herc" Armstrong, a character in the 1986 animated series ''

Inhumanoids ''Inhumanoids'' is the title of an animated series and the name of a Hasbro toy property that were both released in 1986. In the tradition of other Hasbro properties such as ''Transformers (toy line), Transformers'', and ''G.I. Joe'', the show w ...

'' *Hercules "Herc" Hansen, a character in the film ''

Pacific Rim The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The '' Pacific Basin'' includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geological Pacific Ring of Fire. List ...

'' *Captain Hercules "Herc" Shipwright, a recurring character in the British radio series '' Cabin Pressure'' *Herc Stormsailor, a main character in the French/North American animated TV show ''

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors ''Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors'' (French: ''Jayce et les Conquérants de la Lumière'') is an animated show which was first broadcast on TF1 on September 9, 1985, on the block ''Salut les p'tits loups!'', and eventually on September 16 in the ...

'' *a playable character in ''

Herc's Adventures ''Herc's Adventures'' is a video game released for the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn by LucasArts in 1997. The overhead, action-adventure format is similar to '' Zombies Ate My Neighbors''. Up to two players each take on the role of one of thre ...

'', a video game released in 1997 *Humaniform-Emulation Roboticized Combat Unit with Leg-Articulated Navigation (HERC for short), a war machine in the video game '' Metaltech: Earthsiege'' and its sequels

Groups, organizations, companies

* Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation, a heavy equipment rental division of the

Hertz Corporation Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (formerly The Hertz Corporation), known as Hertz, is an American car rental company based in Estero, Florida. The company operates its namesake Hertz brand, along with the brands Dollar Rent A Car, Firefly Car Renta ...

that became an independently publicly traded company called Herc Holdings Inc. in 2016 *

Higher Education Recruitment Consortium The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) is a non-profit consortium of higher education institutions in the United States. History The first HERC was established in Northern California in 2000 with Stanford, UC Berkeley The Un ...

*Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation, predecessor of

Jovair __NOTOC__ D K Jovanovich and Frank Kozloski founded the Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1946, the predecessor of Jovair. In 1949 Jovanovich and Kozloski transferred to the McCulloch Aircraft Corpo ...

, founded in 1946 * Health Economics Research Centre,

Nuffield Department of Population Health The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) of Oxford University is located at the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford, England. It is one of the largest departments within Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division. The head of ...

, Oxford University, England, UK *

Health eResearch Centre The Health eResearch Centre is a digital-health network directed by Professor John Ainsworth that provides research and education across Northern England and beyond. Based at the University of Manchester and incorporating data-intensive health re ...

, Manchester University, England, UK *Trenton Hercs, later name of the now defunct

Trenton Sting The Trenton Sting were a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Trenton, Ontario, Canada. They were a part of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. History In 1981, the Belleville Bobcats of the Metro Junior B Hockey League moved to Trenton. In 1987, ...

Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey team in the 2008–2009 season *Radio Herc, a radio station in Kosovo

Other uses

Hennepin Energy Recovery Center The Hennepin Energy Recovery Center also called HERC is a waste-to-energy plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Following changes to state law in 1980 that prioritized incinerating garbage over directly filling landfills, HERC was developed and began g ...

, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US; a waste-to-energy plant *HERC gene and enzyme family:

HERC1 Probable E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase HERC1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''HERC1'' gene. The protein encoded by this gene stimulates guanine nucleotide exchange on ARF1 and Rab proteins. This protein is thought to be involved in ...

HERC2 HERC2, or HECT and RLD domain containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 2, is a giant Ubiquitin ligase, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase, implicated in DNA repair regulation, pigmentation and neurological disorders. It is encoded by a gene of the same na ...

HERC3 Probable E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase HERC3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''HERC3'' gene. The gene is a member of the HERC family of ubiquitin ligases and encodes a protein with a HECT domain and an RCC1-like domain (RLD). It binds ...

, HERC4,

HERC5 E3 ISG15–protein ligase HERC5 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''HERC5'' gene. This gene is a member of the HERC family of ubiquitin ligases and encodes a protein with a HECT domain and five RCC1 repeats. Pro-inflammatory cytokine ...

, HERC6

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