Hempel is a name of German, Dutch and Swedish origin and the surname of a
Swedish noble family.
The following people have the surname:
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Adolph Hempel
Adolph Hempel (10 April 1870 – 4 November 1949) was an American entomologist who worked and became a citizen in Brazil. He was involved in cataloguing the insects of the region and worked on agriculturally important insects and their management. ...
(1870–1949), Brazilian entomologist
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Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers.
Life
Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to California at age 16, which is wher ...
(born 1951), American writer and professor
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Anouska Hempel
Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born December 1941) is a New Zealand-born film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer. She is sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel.
Early life
Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry ...
(born 1941), New Zealand-born hotelier and designer and former actress
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Bill Hempel (1920–2001), American football player
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Carl Gustav Hempel
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (; ; January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in Logical positivism, logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy ...
(1905–1997), German-American philosopher
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Charles Frederick Hempel (1811–1867), German organist and composer, son of Charles William Hempel
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Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 in Solingen, Prussia – 25 September 1879 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States.
Biography
After completing his collegiate course ...
(1811–1879), German-born translator and homeopathic physician
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Charles William Hempel (1777–1855), English organist
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Eduard Hempel
Eduard Hempel (6 June, 1887 - 12 November, 1972) was a German diplomat. He was the representative of Nazi Germany to Ireland between 1937 and 1945, in the build-up to and during The Emergency in Second World War. When appointed to the post, He ...
(1887–1972), Nazi German Minister to Ireland (1937–1945)
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Fábio Hempel (born 1980), Brazilian athlete
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Florian Hempel
Florian Hempel (born 10 April 1990) is a German professional darts player and former handball player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Hempel began his sporting career in handball, playing as a goalkeeper for Dessau-Ro ...
(born 1990), German darts player
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Frieda Hempel (1885–1955), German-American soprano
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Gotthilf Hempel
Gotthilf Hempel (born March 8, 1929) is a German Marine biology, marine biologist and Oceanography, oceanographer.
He helped to initiated 1981 the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven and in 1992 of the Leibniz ...
(born 1929), German marine biologist and oceanographer
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Hazel Hempel Abel (1888–1966), United States Republican Party Senator for Nebraska (1954)
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Jan Hempel
Jan Hempel (born 21 August 1971) is a German diver who competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, and the 2000 Summer Olympics, winning two Olympic medals. Hempel won a silver in 10 m Platform and a bronze medal in 10 m synchronized platform. ...
(born 1971), German Olympic diver
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Johan Wilhelm Hempel (1860–1920), Danish sea captain
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John Hempel (1935–2022), American mathematician
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Jutta Hempel (born 1960), German chess prodigy
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Lothar Hempel
Lothar Hempel (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German artist based in Berlin. He attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1987 to 1992.
Artistic practice
Hempel transforms the exhibition space into a stage on which the visitor becomes an actor in a st ...
(born 1966), German artist
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Marc Hempel
Marc Hempel (born May 25, 1957) is an American cartoonist/comics artist best known for his work on '' The Sandman'' with Neil Gaiman.
Biography
Writer and artist Marc Hempel grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and now lives in Baltimore ...
(born 1957), contemporary American cartoonist
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Marcella Hempel (1915-2010) Australian textile artist and master weaver
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Peter Hempel (born 1959), East German Olympic canoer
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Udo Hempel
Udo Hempel (born 3 November 1946) is a retired road and track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Jürgen Colombo, and Günter ...
(born 1946), German Olympic road and track cyclist
See also
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Hampel
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Hampl
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Hample
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Hempel Group
Hempel A/S is a global supplier of coatings and paints in the protective, marine, decorative, container and yacht industries. Fully owned by the Hempel Foundation, the company was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1915.
History
Hempel A/S is ...
, Danish coatings supplier company
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Hempel's paradox (or Hempel's ravens), synonyms for the Raven paradox named after Carl Gustav Hempel
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Hempel's dilemma
Hempel's dilemma is a question first asked (at least on record) by the philosopher Carl Hempel. It has relevance to naturalism and physicalism in philosophy, and to philosophy of mind.
The dilemma questions how the language of physics can b ...
, named after Carl Gustav Hempel
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Hempel Hotel, hotel in London
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9820 Hempel, asteroid
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Hemple, Missouri
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