Famous People with Name Gilbert

Gilbert Stork            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gilbert Stork: a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.

Gilbert "The Hurricane" Yvel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gilbert "The Hurricane" Yvel: a Dutch mixed martial arts fighter. He is associated with the Vos Gym training camp in the Netherlands.

Gilbert John Arrow            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Gilbert John Arrow: English entomologist.Arrow was a Deputy Keeper on the staff of the Natural History Museum in London from 1896 until 1938. He worked mainly on the Coleoptera.

Gilbert Fowler White            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gilbert Fowler White: was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century" (Wescoat, 2006). White is known predominantly for his work on natural hazards, particularly flooding, and the importance of sound water management in contemporary society. He was raised in Chicago in the Hyde Park neighborhood, and spent summers in the Tongue River Valley of Wyoming, before studying at the University of Chicago, where he earned his B.S. in 1932 and his PhD in 1942. From 1946 to 1955 he was President of Haverford College. He then returned to Chicago as a professor of geography, where he was the central figure in the "Chicago school" of natural hazards research. In 1970, he moved to the University of Colorado, before retiring after ten years there. Having published his first paper in 1935, he was still publishing into his 90s (Wescoat and White, 2003).

Gilbert Thomas Burnett            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Gilbert Thomas Burnett: was a British botanist.Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany (1835), and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and

Robert G. Gilbert            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Robert G. Gilbert: one of the world's foremost polymer chemists

David Robert 'Lizard' Gilbert            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

David Robert 'Lizard' Gilbert: is a former Australian cricketer who played in 9 Tests and 14 ODIs from 1985 to 1986. He also played for New South Wales, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, and the Tasmanian Tigers.

Robert G. Gilbert (            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Robert G. Gilbert (: is one of the world's foremost polymer chemists, particularly in the field of emulsion polymerisation. In 1970, he gained his PhD from the Australian National University, and worked at the University of Sydney from then until 2006.

Lisa Gilbert            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Lisa Gilbert: is an Australian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League.

Herbert R. Gilbert            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Herbert R. Gilbert: was an Australian rugby league and rugby union player – a dual-code international. He represented the Wallabies in 3 Tests in 1910 and the Kangaroos in 7 Tests from 1911 to 1920, his last two as Captain. The captain-coach of the St. George Dragons club in