Schimper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), botanist and phytogeographer
• Georg Wilhelm Schimper (1804–1878), German botanist and naturalist, born in Reichenschwand
• Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803–1867), German naturalist and poet
• Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808–1880), German-French botanist, born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, a town near the River Rhine

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• Gibbons Station, Alberta
• Gibbons, Stella
• Gibbons (surname)
• Gibbons, Thomas