Famous People with Name Auguste

Auguste Huber            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Auguste Huber: was an Austrian theater and film actress.She received her acting training from Dr. Beer who also arranged her debut in Zurich. She had her first film roll in 1935 and two years later achieved her big breakthrough in the film adaptation of the play Unentshuldigte Stunde (Unexcused Hour).Among the best known of her 20 films through 1945 were the 1937 Land der Liebe (Land of Love), 1939 Marguerite and 1941 Jenny und der Herr im Frack (Jenny and the Gentleman in Tails). After that she worked for four years at the Viennese Burgtheater and other stages.

Auguste Honoré Charlois            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Auguste Honoré Charlois: was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice.His first discovery was the asteroid 267 Tirza in 1887. He photographed 433 Eros on the very night of its discovery by Gustav Witt, but was not able to act quickly enough before Witt announced his find.Although he started searching for asteroids in the era of visual detection, by 1891 Max Wolf had pioneered the use of astrophotography to drastically speed up the rate of detection of asteroids, and both Wolf and Charlois separately discovered far more asteroids than would have been feasible by visual detection.

Auguste François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Auguste François: was a French consul in southern China between 1896 and 1904, first in Longzhou in Guizhou province and Kunming (then known as Yunnan-fu) in Yunnan.n retirement, he wrote texts elucidating his images. François's work has been an invaluable means of documen

Auguste Nicolas Pomel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Auguste Nicolas Pomel: was a French geologist and paleontologist.Pomel was born in Issoire. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils. His works included Sur les Alcyonaires fossiles Miocenes de l'Algerie (1868) and Des races indigènes de l'Algérie et du rôle que leur reservent leurs aptitudes (1871).

Auguste Rodin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Auguste Rodin: was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community.

Arsène Auguste            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Arsène Auguste: is a retired Haitian footballer who represented Haiti in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He played club football with Racing Club Haïtien in Haiti and Tampa Bay Rowdies and Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the United States.

Jules Auguste            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jules Auguste: was an illustrious French violinist, conductor and composer of the 19th century. He became solo violinist, then third conductor in 1871 and finally chief conductor in 1885. His long and successful teaching career at the Conservatoire de Paris began in 1875. Among his notable students were Henri Marteau (1874-1934) who was a child prodigy and Jules Boucherit (1877-1962). Garcin’s association with the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire began in 1860, again as orchestral and then as solo violinist. [1]

Maurice Eugène Auguste, Count Lippens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Maurice Eugène Auguste, Count Lippens: was governor of Belgian Congo from 30 January 1921 until 24 January 1923.

Alexandrine Auguste Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Alexandrine Auguste Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: was the queen consort of King Christian X of Denmark. She was born a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the city of Schwerin. Her father was Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; her mother was Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, a granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Princess Alexandrine married Prince Christian of Denmark on 26 April 1898, in Cannes, France, when she was 18 years old.

Karl A. Augustesen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Karl A. Augustesen: is a Danish astronomer.Working at Brorfelde Observatory, he has discovered a number of asteroids.