What is "dampier"

Dampier may refer to:

• Dampier, Western Australia
• Division of Dampier, an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia from 1913 to 1922
• Dampier County, one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales, Australia.
• Dampier (surname)
• William Dampier, explorer
• 14876 Dampier, a minor planet named after him

Dampier is a surname. People with the surname include:

• Al Dampier (fl. 1950s-1960s), American football player
• Alex Dampier (b. 1951), Canadian-British athlete and coach in ice hockey
• Alfred Dampier (1843-1908), English-born actor and playwright, active in Australia
• Claude Dampier (1879-1955), English actor
• Erick Dampier, American basketball player
• Jeffrey Dampier (1966-2005), American lottery winner and murder victim
• John Dampier (1750-1826), English athlete in cricket
• Lily Dampier (1859 - 1915), Australian actor
• Louie Dampier (b. 1944), American basketball player
• Robert Dampier (1799-1874), English artist
• Thomas Dampier (1748-1812), English cleric
• Thomas Dampier (priest) (ca. 1700-1777), English cleric and educator
• William Dampier (1651-1715), English explorer, the first person to circumnavigate the Earth three times
• William Cecil Dampier (1867-1952), British scientist, agriculturist and science historian