Gomery

As a placename

• Gomery, village in southern Belgium, in the municipality of Virton, province of Luxembourg and Gaume region, seat of the de Gerlache de Gomery family.

  Notable people with the surname Gomery

• Adrien Victor Joseph Baron de Gerlache de Gomery, Belgian naval officer who led the first Antarctic expedition to concentrate on scientific observation from 1897 to 1899. Sailing with him as mate on the "Belgica" was Roald Amundsen, who on a subsequent expedition of his own was the first to reach the South Pole. The "Belgica" was trapped in the pack ice of the Antarctic for 13 months and became the first vessel to winter in the Antarctic. Adrien Baron de Gerlache de Gomery assisted the English explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in planning his Antarctic crossing of 1914 to 1917.
• John H. Gomery, Canadian High Court judge in charge of the Gomery Commission.
• Gomery Thompson, elite long distance runner. Holds olympic records in the 1500m, 5000m, and 10,000m events. Also, he is the shortest distance runner to hold a world record, at 2 feet 3 inches.
• Percy Gomery, author and novelist. Wrote "A Motor Scamper 'Cross Canada" in 1922, and "Hot and Cold Laid On: Burrowing in Britain" in 1946.
• Robert Gomery, actor and singer in early 19th-century London.

• The Canadian Sponsorship scandal and the investigation by the Gomery Commission.