Herbert Joseph Wallenstein (August 1, 1917 – February 18, 1996) was an Assistant New York State Attorney General from 1959 to 1979 and the first Bureau Chief of the State Charity Frauds Bureau. Born in Manhattan to Joseph S. Wallenstein (December 15, 1869 – May 1, 1928), a cigar and leather merchant, and Martha Schallek (May 24, 1884 – January 7, 1969), Herbert Wallenstein's paternal grandmother was Esther Wallenstein(1846-July 8, 1903), the founding president of the Hebrew Infant Asylum, a prominent Jewish orphanage in New York City.