Famous People with Name Hermione

Hermione Gingold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hermione Gingold: was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove.[citation needed] She appeared on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings.

Hermione Hammond            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Hermione Hammond: was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II.Born to an artist mother and an invalid father, Hermione Hammond had one brother and one sister. Rolt was a civil engineer who became a freelance journalist and wrote 26 books, notably engineering textbooks; Rosemary wrote music and assisted the composer Peter Maxwell Davies when he taught at Cirencester Grammar School. She attended the Francis Holland School in London (one of her schoolmates was actress Joyce Grenfell). She went on to study art at the Chelsea Polytechnic, then at the Royal Academy Schools, under Walter Russell and Tom Monnington. She learned mural decoration at the Royal College of Art and attended night classes in etching.