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Bronislav Gimpel Bronislav Gimpel (January 29, 1911 – May 1, 1979)''The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers'', by Arthur Jacobs, Viking, 1990, was a Poland, Polish-American violinist, and teacher. He was born in Lviv, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, part of ...

(1911–1979), Polish-American violinist *

Erica Gimpel Erica Fawn Gimpel (born June 25, 1964) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is best known for her roles on television shows '' Fame'' as Coco Hernandez and on '' Profiler'' as Angel Brown. She is also known for her recurring roles on ...

(born 1964), American television actress *

Erich Gimpel Erich Gimpel (25 March 1910 in Merseburg – 3 September 2010 in São Paulo) was a German spy during World War II. Together with William Colepaugh, he took part in Operation Elster ("Magpie") an espionage mission to the United States in 1944, but wa ...

(1910–1996), German spy during World War II * Harald Gimpel, East German slalom canoeist *

Jakob Gimpel Jakob Gimpel (April 16, 1906March 12, 1989) was a Polish concert pianist and educator. Jakob Gimpel was born in Lwów (then in Polish Galicia, part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and now Lviv, Ukraine). Gimpel's younger brother, Bronislav Gimpe ...

(1906–1989), Polish-American pianist *

Jean Gimpel Jean Gimpel (10 October 1918 – 15 June 1996) was a French historian and medievalist. Gimpel was one of three sons of a French father, the art dealer René Gimpel, and an English mother, Florence, the youngest sister of Lord Duveen. Gimpel was ...

(1918–1996) French historian, medievalist and iconoclast * Jeremy Gimpel, Israeli educator and politician *

René Gimpel René Albert Gimpel (4 October 1881–3 January 1945) was a prominent French art dealer of Alsatian Jewish descent who died in 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp, near Hamburg, Germany. Friend and patron of living artists and collectors, he ...

(1881–1945) French art dealer and collector

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