List of Famous people with last name Appia

Louis Appia

First Name Louis

Last Name Appia

Born on October 13, 1818

Died on May 1, 1898 (aged 79)

Born in Germany, Hesse

Louis Paul Amédée Appia was a Swiss surgeon with special merit in the area of military medicine. In 1863 he became a member of the Geneva "Committee of Five", which was the precursor to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Six years later he met Clara Barton, an encounter which had significant influence on Clara Barton's subsequent endeavours to found a Red Cross society in the United States and her campaign for an accession of the US to the Geneva Convention of 1864.

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Giorgio Appia

First Name Giorgio

Last Name Appia

Born on January 8, 1827

Died on September 19, 1910 (aged 83)

Born in Italy, Piedmont

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