Gomperz
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Gomperz, Gompers, Gumperz are surnames.

Gomper(t)z may refer to:
  • Palais Gomperz
    Palais Gomperz
    Palais Gomperz is a Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna, Austria. It was built for the aristocratic Gomperz family....

    , Vienna
  • Benjamin Gompertz
    Benjamin Gompertz
    Benjamin Gompertz was a British self educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society...

     (1779–1865), British actuary, and mathematician
    • Gompertz function, named for Benjamin Gompertz
  • Heinrich Gomperz
    Heinrich Gomperz
    Heinrich Gomperz was an Austrian philosopher.He was a son of Theodor Gomperz...

     (1873–1942), Austrian philosopher
  • Ian Gompertz
    Ian Gompertz
    Ian Gompertz is a former English cricketer. Gompertz was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Bideford, Devon and educated at Blundell's School....

     (1975–), English cricketer
  • Lewis Gompertz
    Lewis Gompertz
    Lewis Gompertz was an inventor and a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.-His Life:In 1824, Gompertz became a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals which later became the RSPCA...

     (1779–1865), British inventor
  • Louis Gompertz
    Louis Gompertz
    Martin Louis Alan Gompertz was an Anglo-Indian soldier and writer, also known by the pseudonym of 'Ganpat', which was the nearest his Indian troops could get to pronouncing 'Gompertz'. Ganpat is another name for the elephant god Ganesh. He started his writing career with articles for 'Blackwood's...

     (1886–1951), Anglo-Indian soldier and writer
  • Theodor Gomperz
    Theodor Gomperz
    Theodor Gomperz , Austrian philosopher and classical scholar, was born at Brno .He studied at Brno and at Vienna under Hermann Bonitz. Graduating at Vienna in 1867 he became Privatdozent, and subsequently professor of classical philology . In 1882 he was elected a member of the Academy of Science...

     (1832–1912), Moravian-Austrian philologist
  • Will Gompertz
    Will Gompertz
    Will Gompertz is the BBC's Arts Editor, the first person appointed to this new role, created in 2009. He is a second cousin to Simon Gompertz, the personal finance correspondent to BBC News.-Arts career:...

     (1964–), British arts journalist


Gompers may refer to:
  • USS Samuel Gompers
    USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37)
    USS Samuel Gompers was a destroyer tender, the first of her class, and designed to be a floating repair shop for ships of the U.S. Navy either in port or at sea...

    , US Navy vessel
  • Samuel Gompers
    Samuel Gompers
    Samuel Gompers was an English-born American cigar maker who became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor , and served as that organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924...

     (1850–1924)


Gumperz is the surname of:
  • John J. Gumperz
    John J. Gumperz
    John Joseph Gumperz is an American linguist and academic. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the University of California in Berkeley. He is currently affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara...

    , linguist
  • Julian Gumperz
    Julian Gumperz
    Julian Gumperz was a United States-born German sociologist, communist activist, publicist, and translator.-Institute for Social Research:...

    , German sociologist, communist activist, publicist and translator
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