Gomperz

Gomperz, Gompertz, Gumpertz, Gumperz, Gomperts or Gompers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aaron Solomon Gumperz (1723–1769), Jewish German scholar and physician
• Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), British actuary, and mathematician
  • Gompertz function, named for Benjamin Gompertz
• Don Gumpertz, sailor who circled the world on MV Westward in the 1970s
• Henry Gompertz (1867Template:Ndash1930), English-born judge active in Hong Kong and the Federated Malay States.
• Ian Gompertz (born 1975), English cricketer
• John J. Gumperz, linguist
• Julian Gumperz, German sociologist, communist activist, publicist and translator
• Heinrich Gomperz (1873–1942), Austrian philosopher
• Isaac Gompertz (1774–1856), English poet
• Lewis Gompertz (1783/4–1865), English activist, philosopher, writer and inventor
• Louis Gompertz (1886–1951), Anglo-Indian soldier and writer
• Marcia Gumpertz, American statistician
• Samuel W. Gompertz (1868–1952), American showman
• Sydney G. Gumpertz (1879–1971), American soldier in World War I
• Theodor Gomperz (1832–1912), Moravian-Austrian philologist
• Will Gompertz (born 1964), British arts journalist
• Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), US labour organizer and founder of the AFL
• Dr Rebecca Gomperts (born 1966), founder of Women on Waves.

See also

• Palais Gomperz, Vienna
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc.