Duhamel

Duhamel is an historic surname from Northern France and Belgium families, especially from Normandy, Picardy and the Romance Low Countries (Artois and Romance Flanders), meaning from the hamlet, or from home as the hamlet comes from the root word home. By migration, this surname is also frequent in the east of France and Switzerland and by offshore migration in the US and mainly in Canada. The name may refer to:

People

• Alain Duhamel (born 1940), French journalist
• Antoine Duhamel (1925–2014), French composer
• Denise Duhamel (born 1961), American poet
• Georges Duhamel (1884–1966), French writer
• Helen Duhamel (1904–1991), American businesswoman and broadcaster
• Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782), physician, naval engineer and botanist, whose standard abbreviation as a botanist is Duhamel
• Henry Duhamel (1853–1917), French mountaineer, author and skiing pioneer
• James F. Duhamel (1858–1947), New York state senator, and Washington DC patent attorney
• Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel (1797–1872), French applied mathematician
• Jean-Baptiste Duhamel (1624–1706), French scientist and theologian
• Jean-Pierre-François Guillot-Duhamel (1730–1816), French engineer
• Jonathan Duhamel (born 1987), Canadian professional poker player and winner of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.
• Joseph-Thomas Duhamel (1841–1909), Canadian clergyman and educator
• Josh Duhamel (born 1972), American actor and former male fashion model
• Marcel Duhamel (1900–1977), French actor, screenwriter, translator and publisher
• Maurice Duhamel (1884–1940), French composer and Breton nationalist
• Meagan Duhamel (born 1985), Canadian figure skater
• Miguel Duhamel, (born 1968), professional motorcycle racer
• Ron Duhamel (1938–2002), Canadian politician
• Yvon Duhamel (born 1939), professional motorcycle racer and father of Miguel Duhamel

Places

• Duhamel, Alberta, Canada
• Duhamel, Quebec, Canada
• Duhamel-Ouest, Quebec, Canada
• Chez Duhamel, Kortrijk, Belgium

Others

• Duhamel's principle, in partial differential equations it gives the solution to the nonhomogeneous wave equation (named for Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel)
• Duhamel's integral is used in engineering / response theory to calculate the response of a linear system to an arbitrary excitation, provided the excitation to an impulse function is known
• Duhamel's formula, a solution to general inhomogeneous linear equations
• 19617 Duhamel, an asteroid named for Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel
• the Duhamel procedure, an operation to treat Hirschsprung's disease