Stephen Herbert (1951–2023) was a British visual media historian, author, editor, publisher and projectionist.

They published books and booklets on early film and media history, including titles written by Herbert himself, notably a biography of Edwardian visual media pioneer Theodore Brown (1997) and Industry, Liberty and a Vision (1998), on inventor and political theorist Wordsworth Donisthorpe.

[3] He produced a number of websites, including Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (based on the 1996 book co-edited with Luke McKernan), The Compleat Muybridge and The Optilogue.

[4] He was a consultant on the development of moving image museums in Dubai and Qatar, and was a visiting research fellow at Kingston University, home to the Eadweard Muybridge archive.

He was a board member of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, University of Exeter, 1997–2000.