Hempel

family name

Hempel is a surname of German/Dutch/Swedish origin. The following persons share the last name Hempel:

• Marc Hempel, contemporary American cartoonist
• Jan Hempel (born 1971), German olympic diver
• Jurjen Hempel, contemporary Dutch conductor (music)
• Peter Hempel, East German (GDR) olympic athlete (canooing)
• Amy Hempel (born 1951), American writer and professor
• Christoph Hempel (born 1946), German classical composer
• Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist and oceanographer
• Carl Gustav Hempel (1905-1997), German-American philosopher
• Anna Hempel (1900-?), kitchen overseer at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, 10-yr sentence at Nuremberg Trials
• Hazel Hempel Abel (1888-1966), American senator (R-Nebraska), first female U.S. Senators from a single state to serve concurrently (with Eva Kelley Bowring), in 1954
• Frieda Hempel (1885-1955), German-American soprano
• Eduard Hempel (1887-1972), German minister to Ireland (1937-1945)
• Walther Hempel (1851-1916), German analytical chemist
• Tobias Hempel (1738-1820), German politician, mayor of Zwickau 1801-1819
• Udo Hempel (born 1946), German road and track cyclist
• Anouska Hempel (born 1941), film and television actress turned hotelier and designer.

also: Hempel, Swedish noble family

• Gunter Hampel, German free jazz vibraphonist and reeds player

Other

• Hempel's paradox or Hempel's ravens - synonyms for the Raven paradox (after Carl Gustav Hempel)
• Hempel's Dilemma (after Carl Gustav Hempel)
• 9820 Hempel Asteroid (after Rolf Hempel)
• Hempel pipette piece of chemical laboratory glassware (after Walther Hempel)
• Hempel Hotel, hotel in London