Alexandre Lippmann

Alexandre Lippmann (11 June 1881 – 23 February 1960) was a French épée fencer. He won five medals, including two gold medals, at three different Olympic Games: a team gold and an individual silver in 1908, a team bronze and individual silver in 1920, and a team gold in 1924.

Lippmann, himself Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.

Lippmann was also a genre painter. Through his mother, Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, he was the great-grandson of French writer Alexandre Dumas.

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