Gibbs
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Gibbs a name used for people and places:
- Places:
- People
- Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, fiction writer
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
- Cory Gibbs, soccer player
- George Gibbs (engineer), mechanical engineer
- George Gibbs (geologist), (1815-1873)
- Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
- Humphrey Gibbs, politician
- James Gibbs, architect
- Joe Gibbs, football coach
- John Dixon Gibbs Co-inventor of first practical electrical transformer
- Willard Gibbs, philologist
- Josiah Willard Gibbs, mathematical physicist and founder of physical chemistry; several concepts in science are named after him:
- in mathematics and statistics: Gibbs phenomenon, Gibbs inequality, Gibbs sampling
- in physics: Gibbs phase rule, Gibbs free energy, Gibbs entropy, Gibbs paradox, Gibbs-Helmholtz equation, Gibbs algorithm, Gibbs state, Gibbs-Marangoni effect
- Marla Gibbs, actress
- Mary Gibbs, actress
- Michael Gibbs, lawyer and politician
- Michael Gibbs, music composer
- Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, political figure
- Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, political figure
- Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs, political figure
- Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, chemist
- Phillip Gibbs, architect
- Roland Gibbs, military officer
- Terri Gibbs, country and gospel music performer
- Timothy Gibbs, actor
- William Francis Gibbs, shipbuilder
- Wolcott Gibbs, humourist
- Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, colonial administrator of Rhodesia
- Fictional Persons
- Jethro Gibbs, main character of NCIS (TV series)
- Joshamee Gibbs, character from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 3
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