Ignacio Herbert "Nacio Herb" Brown (February 22, 1896 – September 28, 1964)[1] was an American composer of popular songs, movie scores and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.

Brown first operated a tailoring business (1916), and then became a financially successful realtor, but he always wrote and played music.

He joined The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1927, the same year writing the piano instrumental "The Doll Dance".

[1] Brown also worked with Richard A. Whiting and Buddy De Sylva on Broadway Musicals such as Take a Chance.

[1] Along with L. Wolfe Gilbert, Brown wrote the music for the children's television western, Hopalong Cassidy, which first aired in 1949.