Famous People with Name Hamel

Werner Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Hamel: was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as forward.

Anton Gerard Van Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Anton Gerard Van Hamel: was a Dutch scholar, best known for his contributions to Celtic and Germanic studies, especially those relating to literature, linguistics, philology and mythology. He is not to be confused with his uncle, Anton Gerard van Hamel (1842-1907), who was a theologian, professor of French and editor of De Gids.[1]

Hendrick Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Hendrick Hamel: was the first Westerner to write about the Joseon Dynasty era in Korea (1666).Hendrick Hamel was a bookkeeper with the Dutch East India Company (the VOC). In 1653, while heading for Japan on the ship 'De Sperwer' (the Sparrowhawk), he was shipwrecked on Jeju Island off the southern coast of Korea along with thirty-five of his crewmates. 36 of the 64 members of the crew survived the shipwreck, and the men were promptly taken into custody and sent to Seoul. They were forbidden to leave the country, but they were given some freedom to move and mix with the different classes of Korean society.

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel: was a notable French natural philosopher of the later seventeenth century, and secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. He was born at Vire, Normandy (now in the department of Calvados), the son of Vire lawyer Nicolas Du Hamel. He began his studies at Caen and completed them in Paris. In 1642, being only eighteen years of age, Duhamel published an explanation of the work of Theodosius of Bithynia called Spherics, to which he added a treatise on trigonometry. The following year he entered the Congregation of the Oratory, which he left ten years later to take charge of the parish of Neuilly-sur-Marne.

Lambert Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Lambert Hamel: is a German television and film actor.