Famous People with Name Urbain

Urbain Roger Batoum            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Urbain Roger Batoum: is a Cameroonian footballer, who plays for Persebaya in Indonesian Premier Division League.

Urbain Braems            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Urbain Braems: is a retired Belgian football player and manager.He played for K.S.V. Sottegem, K.R.C. Mechelen, Club Brugge and Daring Club Bruxelles.

Urbain Lippé            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Urbain Lippé: was a Quebec notary and political figure. He represented Joliette in the Canadian House of Commons from 1891 to 1896 as a Conservative member.

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier: was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for his part in the discovery of Neptune.Le Verrier's most famous achievement is his prediction of the existence of the then unknown planet Neptune, using only mathematics and astronomical observations of the known planet Uranus. Encouraged by physicist Arago,[2], Director of the Paris Observatory, Le Verrier was intensely engaged for months in complex calculations to explain small but systematic discrepancies between Uranus's observed orbit and the one predicted from the laws of gravity of Newton. At the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were made by John Couch Adams in England. Le Verrier announced his final predicted position for Uranus's unseen perturbing planet publicly to the French Academy on August 31, 1846, two days before Adams's final solution, which turned out to be 12° off the mark

Ismael Urbain            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ismael Urbain: was a French journalist and interpreter. French Guiana Urbain was the illegitimate son of a merchant from Marseille named Urbain Brue and a free colored woman from French Guiana named Appoline. Ismael who bore his fathers first name as his surname, was brought by him to Marseilles when he was eight, and there he received an education.