Famous People with Name Sabine

Sabine Hack            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Hack: is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She began her career on the WTA Tour in 1983. She won four singles and one doubles titles in her career. Her best Grand Slam performance was reaching the quarterfinals at the 1994 French Open. Hack reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 in the world in January 1995. She retired from the tour in 1997.

Sabine Klaschka            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Klaschka: is a professional German tennis player from Munich, Bavaria. As of June 26, 2006, she is 174th in the WTA rankings.At Wimbledon 2005, she beat British number one Elena Baltacha in the first round, only to go out in round 2 to sixth seed Elena Dementieva.

Sabine Lisicki            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Lisicki: is a German professional tennis player. She achieved her career high rank of #49 on October 13, 2008.At the 2008 Australian Open, her first Grand Slam tournament, she defeated No. 16 seed, Dinara Safina (7–6, 4–6, 6–2) and Mariya Koryttseva (6–1, 7–5) to reach the third round as a qualifier. She lost her third round match against Caroline Wozniacki (4–6, 6–4, 6–3). Additionally, in the first round of Fed Cup against the United States, she defeated veteran Lindsay Davenport, 6–1, 7–5.

Sabine Völker            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Völker: is a German speed skater who won a gold medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Sabine Jahn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Jahn: is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Sir Edward Sabine            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Sir Edward Sabine: was an Irish astronomer, scientist, ornithologist and explorer. He was born in Dublin and died at East Sheen in Surrey.Two branches of Sabine's work in particular deserve very high credit: Determination of the length of the seconds pendulum, a simple pendulum whose time period on the surface of the Earth is two seconds, that is, one second in each direction; and extensive researches connected with the Earth's magnetic field. He led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in various parts of British territory all over the globe and a great part of his life was devoted to their direction, and to the reduction and discussion of their observations.

Joseph Sabine            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Joseph Sabine: was an English lawyer and naturalist. He was the elder brother of Sir Edward Sabine.Sabine practiced law until 1808, when he was appointed inspector general of taxes. He held this position until 1835. He had a lifelong interest in natural history. He was an original fellow of the Linnean Society, founded in 1788. He was honorary secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1810 to 1830, and treasurer and vice-chairman of the Zoological Society of London.Edward Sabine was a member of John Ross's Arctic voyage in 1818. He sent Joseph a specimen of a new gull which had been discovered during the expedition, which Joseph named Sabine's Gull (Larus sabini) in honour of his brother.