Famous People with Name Sabine

Sabine Heß            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Heß: is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics.In 1976 she was the coxswain of the East German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed fours event.

Sabine Spitz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Spitz: is a German cross country cyclist. She won bronze in Women's cross-country at the 2004 Summer Olympics and gold in the event in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Furthermore she became World Champion in 2003.

Sabine Englert            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Englert: is a German team handball goalkeeper from Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. She plays for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich, and on the German national team.

Sabine Baeß            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Baeß: was a German figure skater. She won three national titles and twice captured the silver medal in ladies' singles at the World Figure Skating Championships. She also participated in the 1928 Winter Olympics, where she placed ninth in the Women's figure ska

Sabine Götschy-Kleinheinz            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Sabine Götschy-Kleinheinz: is a French sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1990s. She won a bronze medal in the K-2 5000 m event at the 1991 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Paris.

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.