Famous People with Name Lorentz

Lorentz Eichstadt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Lorentz Eichstadt: was a German mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Eichstadt is named after him.

Lorentz Scott Bruun            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lorentz Scott Bruun: is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. He served in the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 37, which encompasses some of the southern suburbs of Portland, Oregon, including part or all of the cities of Durham, Lake Os

Lorentz Lange            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Lorentz Lange: was a Norwegian judge and politician.He was elected to the first session of the Parliament of Norway in 1814, representing the constituency Christiansand. He was re-elected in 1815. In 1833 he was re-elected for a third term, representing the constituency

Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke: was a Norwegian military officer, engineer and politician. He served as Norwegian Minister of the Army twice in the 1870s, and was the director-general of the Norwegian State Railways from 1883 to 1899.On 1 July 1872 Segelcke was appointed Minister of the Army. He became a member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm on 1 July 1874, and left the post as Minister of the Army on 28 July 1874. In May 1875 he left the Council of State Division, but until 5 June he served as a member of the Interim Government during King Oscar II's travel in Germany. From 6 to 21 July there was another Interim Government due to Oscar II's travel in Russia. Then, from 21 July 1875 to 8 October 1877, Segelcke served as Minister of the Army for the second time.

Lore Lorentz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Lore Lorentz: was a German cabaret artist/standup comedian.She was born in Mährisch-Ostrau in Austria-Hungary (today Ostrava in the Czech Republic), as Lore Schirner. She studied history, German literature and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna. In Berlin she met Kay Lorentz, who became her husband in 1944.Together they founded the famous "Kom(m)ödchen" in Düsseldorf in 1947. It was one of the first political cabarets in Western Germany after the Second World War.

Stanislaw Lorentz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Stanislaw Lorentz: Polish scholar of music and history of art.He was a high ranking member of the Polish Underground State during German occupation of Poland, tasked with preserving Polish cultural heritage. After the war, he resumed his post as the director of the National Museum in Warsaw; he became a member of several governmental departments and commissions related to art conservation and was also a deputy to the Polish Sejm (1965–1969). UNESCO expert on Polish cultural heritage, highly active in the restoration of the Royal Castle, Warsaw. Member of Polish Academy of Learning and Polish Academy of Sciences.

Geertruida Luberta De Haas-Lorentz            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Geertruida Luberta De Haas-Lorentz: was a female Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first female in electrical noise theory. She was the eldest daughter of the physicist H. A. Lorentz and Aletta Catharina Kaiser. In 1910, she married the physicist W.J. de Haas and they had two sons and two daughters.