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Hempel

Hempel is a name of German, Dutch and Swedish origin and the surname of a Swedish noble family.

The following people have the surname:

  • Tobias Hempel (1738–1820), German politician, mayor of Zwickau (1801–19)
  • Adolph Hempel (1870–1949), Brazilian entomologist
  • Frieda Hempel (1885–1955), German-American soprano
  • Eduard Hempel (1887–1972), Nazi German Minister to Ireland (1937–1945)
  • Anna Hempel (born 1900), kitchen overseer at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1945, later imprisoned
  • Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–97), German-American philosopher
  • Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist and oceanographer
  • Anouska Hempel (born 1941), New Zealand-born hotelier and designer and former actress
  • Udo Hempel (born 1946), German Olympic road and track cyclist
  • Amy Hempel (born 1951), American writer and professor
  • Marc Hempel (born 1957), contemporary American cartoonist
  • Peter Hempel (born 1959), East German Olympic canoer
  • Jan Hempel (born 1971), German Olympic diver
  • Hazel Hempel Abel (1888–1966), United States Republican Party Senator for Nebraska (1954)

Usage examples of "hempel".

Roy Hempel, the owner of Mercurial Books, sighing with relief when she pushed open the door and almost ran to the podium.

No one has been able to produce these rays in the laboratory, although Hempel has suspected sometimes that traces of them appeared in the radiations from powerful electric sparks.

Hans Andermass, then Paul Tauglich, then Johann Feiniger peered in turn through the lenses, and no one spoke until Herr Hempel took over again.

Herr Hempel was trying to push him from the telescope, but he would not budge.