Famous People with Name Renard

Alexandre Charles Albert Joseph Renard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Alexandre Charles Albert Joseph Renard: was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. He was ordained on July 12, 1931 in Lille. He taught at Marcq College, Baraeul from 1933-1936, and then taught at the seminary of Haubourdin until 1938. He continued his teaching through the Second World War at the Catholic University of Lille until 1943, and also did pastoral work in the diocese of Lille until 1947.

Gaston Renard            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gaston Renard: was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Damien Renard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Damien Renard: is a French orienteering competitor. He has received silver medals with the French relay team in both world championships and European championships.

André Renard            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

André Renard: was the leader of an important tendency in the Walloon tradeunionism.André Renard was member of the Consultative Committee, similar, in the European Coal and Steel Community, to the Economic and Social Committee. He was even president of this Committee (1954–1955). By 1955, he tried to push for more social and economical competences for the Committee (prices and wage setting, investment...) in the field of social harmonization in general. But he failed.

Roberto Silva Renard            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Roberto Silva Renard: was a Chilean military and political figure who served in the War of the Pacific and the Chilean Civil War. He is mostly remembered as the military chief that carried out the Santa María of Iquique School massacre in 1907, where more than 2,000 striking saltpeter miners, along with their wives and children, were killed. After the war, Silva Renard was sent to study artillery in Europa, and served as an adjunct in the German Army for five years. During the Chilean Civil War, he was one of the few army officers to join the congressional army, with the rank of major, and fought with distinction at the battles of Concón and Placilla. After the war, he was rewarded with a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel.