Kemp
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Kemp or Kempe may refer to:
[edit] Places
- Kemp (wool) a short, fine hair that is found in the fleece of a sheep.
[edit] People
- Alfred Bray Kempe, English mathematician who attempted and failed to solve the four-colour theorem
- Carl Kempe, Swedish paper producer
- Charles Eamer Kempe, Victorian stained glass designer
- Frieder Kempe, German sports scientist
- Jack Kemp, American Football player for the Buffalo Bills, Representative from Buffalo from 1971 through 1989. Co-author of the Kemp-Roth tax cuts, Secretary of HUD under President George Herbert Walker Bush, and 1996 Republican Vice Presidential nominee.
- John Kemp or Kempe, archbishop of Canterbury
- Kempe Gowda I, Yelahanka chieftain
- Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, also known as Major Kemp, Māori military leader during the New Zealand Land Wars
- Margery Kempe, pilgrim
- Martin Kemp, unrelated to Ross but also best known to modern audiences as Steve Owen in EastEnders, but formerly a member of Spandau Ballet, with his brother Gary.
- Ross Kemp, British actor famous for his role as Grant Mitchell in long-running soap Eastenders
- Rudolf Kempe, German conductor
- Shawn Kemp, former NBA player
- Steve Kemp, drummer for the British indie rock band HARD-Fi
- William Kempe, English actor and morris dancer
- Johannes Petrus Kemp, South African musician
[edit] Things
- Kemp card game also known as Kent or Signal.
- Kemp, a song by the Swedish punk band Millencolin on their studio album Home From Home
- named after Alfred Bray Kempe, in mathematics, a Kempe chain is part of the four-colour theorem
- The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, a novel by Penelope Lively
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