title: Guimet
text: # Guimet
  
  Guimet is a surname used by French and Spanish families. Uses of the name include:
  
  ## People
  
  * Jean-Baptiste Guimet (1795–1871), French industrial chemist
  * Émile Étienne Guimet (1836–1918), French industrialist, son of the above
  * Felip Comabella i Guimet (1841–1901), Spanish pharmacist
  * Jordi Guimet (born 1948), Spanish industrial engineer
  * Úrsula Guimet [es], a Peruvian female taekwondo practitioner
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * The Guimet Museum, founded by Émile Étienne Guimet.
  * The former Museum of Natural History - Guimet in Lyon. In 2014, its collections were transferred to the Musée des Confluences
  * Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, annual French literary prize first awarded in 2017
  