Arthur Orpen Herbert (May 1831 – 29 October 1890) was a public servant in Queensland, Australia.

[4] Herbert was appointed on 19 April 1853 as a clerk first class ordinary division in the Surveyor-General's Department of New South Wales.

[6] In April 1862 he became Under Secretary for Lands and Works,[7] to which was added on 28 October 1864 the position of Commissioner of Railways.

[1][9] On 29 April 1869, the Secretary for Public Works and Mines Arthur Macalister was briefly appointed Commissioner for Railways,[10] before Herbert was restored to the position on 15 July 1870 by the new Secretary for Public Works William Henry Walsh.

[1] Herbert retired upon his pension at the end of 1885 and lived quietly at his residence in Milton.