Hempel

For the London hotel, see Hempel Hotel. For the asteroid, see 9820 Hempel.

Hempel is a name of German, Dutch and Swedish origin and the surname of a Swedish noble family.

The following people have the surname:

• Tobias Hempel (1738–1820), German politician, mayor of Zwickau (1801–19)
• Adolph Hempel (1870–1949), Brazilian entomologist
• Frieda Hempel (1885–1955), German-American soprano
• Eduard Hempel (1887–1972), Nazi German Minister to Ireland (1937–1945)
• Anna Hempel (born 1900), kitchen overseer at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1945, later imprisoned
• Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–97), German-American philosopher
• Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist and oceanographer
• Anouska Hempel (born 1941), New Zealand-born hotelier and designer and former actress
• Udo Hempel (born 1946), German Olympic road and track cyclist
• Amy Hempel (born 1951), American writer and professor
• Marc Hempel (born 1957), contemporary American cartoonist
• Peter Hempel (born 1959), East German Olympic canoer
• Jan Hempel (born 1971), German Olympic diver
• Hazel Hempel Abel (1888–1966), United States Republican Party Senator for Nebraska (1954)

See also

• Hempel's paradox (or Hempel's ravens), synonyms for the Raven paradox named after Carl Gustav Hempel
• Hempel's dilemma, named after Carl Gustav Hempel
• All pages with titles containing Hempel
• Gunter Hampel (born 1937), German jazz vibraphonist and reeds player