Hempel is a name of German, Dutch and Swedish origin and the surname of a Swedish noble family. The following people have the surname: *

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 *

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 *

Anouska Hempel Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born 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 and has ...

(born 1941), New Zealand-born hotelier and designer and former actress *

Bill Hempel William M. Hempel (February 10, 1920 – January 19, 2001) was a player in the National Football League. He played for the Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the Nat ...

(1920–2001), American football player *

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 empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is espec ...

(1905–1997), German-American philosopher *

Charles Frederick Hempel Charles Frederick Hempel (1811–1867) was an organist and composer. Hempel, eldest son of Charles William Hempel, was born at Truro, Cornwall, in September 1811. Having under his father's care received a sound musical education, he became a teac ...

(1811–1867), German organist and composer, son of Charles William Hempel *

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 a ...

(1811–1879), German-born translator and homeopathic physician *

Charles William Hempel Charles William Hempel (1777–1855) was an English organist. Life Hempel was born at Chelsea, Middlesex, on 28 August 1777, and showing very early indications of musical talent was placed under the tuition of his relative, Augustus F. C. Kollm ...

(1777–1855), English organist *

Eduard Hempel Eduard Hempel (6 June 1887, Pirna – 12 November 1972, Gundelfingen) was a German diplomat. He was the German Minister to Ireland between 1937 and 1945, in the buildup to and during The Emergency (Second World War). When he was first appointed to ...

(1887–1972), Nazi German Minister to Ireland (1937–1945) * Fábio Hempel (born 1980), Brazilian athlete *

Frieda Hempel Frieda Hempel (26 June 1885 – 7 October 1955) was a German lyric coloratura soprano singer in operatic and concert work who had an international career in Europe and the United States. Life Hempel was born in Leipzig and studied first at th ...

(1885–1955), German-American soprano *

Gotthilf Hempel Gotthilf Hempel (born March 8, 1929) is a retired Germany, German Marine biology, marine biologist and Oceanography, oceanographer. Hempel studied biology and geology at the universities of Mainz and Heidelberg. In 1952 he gained his Ph.D. wit ...

(born 1929), German marine biologist and oceanographer * Hazel Hempel Abel (1888–1966), United States Republican Party Senator for Nebraska (1954) *

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 *

Johan Wilhelm Hempel Captain Johan Wilhelm Hempel (July 20, 1860 – January 16, 1920) was the captain of the Peace Ship. Biography He was born on July 20, 1860, to Nielsine Agnete Christine Møller and Simon Christian Ludvig Hempel in Copenhagen, Denmark. He had ...

(1860–1920), Danish sea captain * John Hempel (born 1935), American mathematician * Jutta Hempel (born 1960), German chess prodigy *

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 *

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 * Peter Hempel (born 1959), East German Olympic canoer *

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 H ...

(born 1946), German Olympic road and track cyclist

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