Samuel W. Gumpertz (1868–1952) was an American showman who played a part
in the building of Coney Island's Dreamland. Gompertz traveled the world in
search of indigenous people to perform in the popular ethnographic sideshows of
the day, including Filipinos who were exhibited in an "Igorot
Village", long-necked women from Burma and
people from Borneo who performed as "wild men of Borneo". In
the novel Home by Daniel Martin Eckhart, Samuel W. Gumpertz
features as the manager of Dreamland during the day before
opening day May 27, 1911 and the fire that destroyed the park.