List of Famous people named Gabriel
Gabriel Louis de Caulaincourt
Gabriel Curuchet
Gabriel Ovidio Curuchet is a retired road bicycle racer and track cyclist from Argentina, who represented his native country at four Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000m Individual Pursuit at the 1987 Pan American Games, followed by the gold in the Men's Madison in 1999 with his brother Juan Curuchet. He was a professional rider from 1989 to 2005.
Gabriel Péri
Gabriel Péri (Peri) was a prominent French Communist journalist and politician, and member of the French Resistance. He was executed in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Gabriel Faure
Gabriel Faure was a French poet, novelist and essayist. He was the author of many books about Italy, and the editor of a book prefaced by Benito Mussolini. He won five prizes from the Académie française.
Gabriel Hogan
Gabriel Hogan is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his continuing roles on Canadian hit dramas Heartland, Traders and The Associates.
Gabriel Voisin
Gabriel Voisin was a French aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight, which was made by Henry Farman on January 13, 1908, near Paris, France. During World War I the company founded by Voisin became a major producer of military aircraft, notably the Voisin III. Subsequently, he switched to the design and production of luxury automobiles under the name Avions Voisin.
Gabriel de Broglie
Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel is a French historian and politician.
Gabriel Metsu
Gabriël Metsu (1629–1667) was a Dutch painter of history paintings, still lifes, portraits, and genre works. He was "a highly eclectic artist, who did not adhere to a consistent style, technique, or one type of subject for long periods". Only 14 of his 133 works are dated.
Gabriel Andrew Dirac
Gabriel Andrew Dirac was a Hungarian/British mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin 1964-1966. In 1952, he gave a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. The previous year, he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least two-point lines, where
is the largest integer not exceeding
. This conjecture was proven true when n is sufficiently large by Green and Tao in 2012.