Gomperz, Gompertz, Gumpertz, Gumperz, Gomperts or Gompers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aaron Solomon Gumperz
Aaron Solomon Gumperz (December 10, 1723 – April 10, 1769) was a Jewish German scholar and physician.
In March, 1751, Gumperz graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Frankfurt (Oder), his dissertation being "''Ueber die Temper ...
(1723–1769), Jewish German scholar and physician
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Benjamin Gompertz
Benjamin Gompertz (5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865) was a British self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Gompertz is now best known for his Gompertz law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1 ...
(1779–1865), British actuary, and mathematician
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Gompertz function
The Gompertz curve or Gompertz function is a type of mathematical model for a time series, named after Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865). It is a sigmoid function which describes growth as being slowest at the start and end of a given time period. Th ...
, named for Benjamin Gompertz
*Don Gumpertz, sailor who circled the world on
MV Westward in the 1970s
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Henry Gompertz
Sir Henry Hessey Johnston Gompertz (31 August 1867 – 4 February 1930) was a Puisne Judge in the Supreme Court (Hong Kong), Supreme Court, Hong Kong, and Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States.
Biography
Born on 31 August 1867, Gompertz was ...
(18671930), English-born judge active in Hong Kong and the Federated Malay States.
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Ian Gompertz (born 1975), English cricketer
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John J. Gumperz John Joseph Gumperz (January 9, 1922 – March 29, 2013) was an American linguist and academic. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research on the languages of India, on code-switching i ...
, linguist
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Julian Gumperz
Julian Gumperz (May 12, 1898 in New York City – February 1972 in Gaylordsville, Connecticut) was a United States-born German sociologist, Communism, communist political activist, activist, publicist, and translator.
Institute for Social Rese ...
, German sociologist, communist activist, publicist and translator
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Heinrich Gomperz Heinrich Gomperz (January 18, 1873 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – December 27, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian philosopher.
He was a son of Theodor Gomperz. He was a patient of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund ...
(1873–1942), Austrian philosopher
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Lewis Gompertz
Lewis Gompertz ( – 2 December 1861) was an English writer and inventor, and early animal rights and veganism advocate. He was a founding member, in June 1824, of the English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; later the RSPCA. Gom ...
(c. 1783–1865), English inventor, writer and animal rights and veganism activist
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Louis Gompertz
Martin Louis Alan Gompertz (February 23, 1886 – September 29, 1951) was a British soldier and writer, born in India, also known by the pseudonym of 'Ganpat', which was the nearest his Indian troops could get to pronouncing 'Gompertz'. Ganpat i ...
(1886–1951), Anglo-Indian soldier and writer
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Marcia Gumpertz
Marcia Lynn Gumpertz is an American statistician known for her research on agricultural statistics, spatial analysis, the design of experiments, and plant disease epidemiology. She has also studied employment issues for women and members of underr ...
, American statistician
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Samuel W. Gompertz
Samuel W. Gumpertz (1868–1952) was an American showman who played a part in the building of Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brookly ...
(1868–1952), American showman
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Sydney G. Gumpertz (1879–1971), American soldier in World War I
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Theodor Gomperz
Theodor Gomperz (March 29, 1832August 29, 1912), Austrian philosopher and classical scholar, was born at Brno (Brünn).
Biography
Gomperz studied at Brno and at Vienna
en, Viennese
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(1832–1912), Moravian-Austrian philologist
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Will Gompertz
William Edward Gompertz (born 25 August 1965) was the BBC's arts editor before moving to a position as the Barbican Centre’s Artistic Director from 1 June 2021.
Gompertz attended Dulwich Preparatory School, in Cranbrook, Kent.
Gompertz was p ...
(born 1964), British arts journalist
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Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers (; January 27, 1850December 13, 1924) was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's ...
(1850-1924), US labour organizer and founder of the
AFL
AFL may refer to:
Sports
* American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues:
** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...
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Rebecca Gomperts
Rebecca Gomperts (born 1966) is a Dutch physician and activist for women's rights, in particular abortion rights. She is the founder of Women on Waves and Women on Web, which provide reproductive health services for women in countries where thes ...
(born 1966), founder of
Women on Waves
Women on Waves (WoW) is a Dutch nongovernmental organization (NGO) created in 1999 by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, in order to bring reproductive health services, particularly non-surgical abortion services and education, to women in countr ...
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See also
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Palais Gomperz
Palais Gomperz is a ''Ringstraßenpalais'' in Vienna, Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine ...
, Vienna
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