Famous People with Name Bertrand

Bertrand De Turre            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Bertrand De Turre: was a French Franciscan theologian and Cardinal. He was an opponent of the Franciscan Spirituals. He undertook diplomatic missions for Pope John XXII, with Bernard Gui. He was made Archbishop of Salerno and then Cardinal in 1320.

Bertrand Du Pouget            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Bertrand Du Pouget: was a French papal diplomat and Cardinal. He may have been a nephew of Pope John XXII.[1] As cardinal he was closely involved in dealing with the practical consequences of the migration of the papacy to Avignon, and also in striving to uphold papal prestige in Italy, for example by artistic commissions in Bologna.[2] He expelled from Piacenza Galeazzo Visconti, imperial vicar for Emperor Henry VII,[3] and in 1329 arranged for a public burning of Dante's De monarchia.[4]

Bertrand Gallou            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Bertrand Gallou: is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Between 1994 and 1999, he played in Ligue 2 for FC Mulhouse.

Bertrand Boissonnault            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bertrand Boissonnault: was a Canadian Olympic fencer. He competed in the team foil and individual épée events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Bertrand Marchand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Bertrand Marchand: is a French former football player who is the manager of the Tunisian National Team

Antoine De Bertrand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Antoine De Bertrand: was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of the Jesuits. He was murdered by Protestants during the French Wars of Religion.

Pierre Bertrand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Bertrand: was a French Cardinal, theologian, and canonist.[1] His noble parentage is known to us through the manuscript memoir of Grasset, a Celestine monk of the seventeenth century (Discours généalogique de la noble maison de Bertrand et de leur alliance aven celle de Colombier). The legal profession seems to have been the first aim of his education He successively studied and taught law in the Universities of Avignon, Montpellier, Orléans, and Paris.

Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand: was a French archaeologist who was a native of Rennes. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795-1831) and elder brother to mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900). Bertrand studied at Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm, and after a three-year expedition to Babylon he became a member of the French School at Athens in 1849. From 1851 to 1857 he was a professor of rhetoric at Rennes.

Joseph Louis François Bertrand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joseph Louis François Bertrand: was a French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics. Bertrand was a professor at the École Polytechnique and Collège de France. He was a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences and was its permanent secretary for twenty-six years. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand and the brother of archaeologist Alexandre Bertrand. His father died when Joseph was only nine years old

Philippe Bertrand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Philippe Bertrand: was a French sculptor of the late 17th and early 18th century. He received commissions for sculptures for both the Château de Marly and Versailles. In November, 1701, he was made a full member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture upon the display of a royal commission of 1700,[3] his small bronze of the Rape of Helen, a svelte composition of three figures with a debt to Giambologna's Rape of a Sabine Woman.[4] He was known for sculpting flowing, graceful, and even flying figures, particularly in his bronzes.[5]