Famous People with Name Camille

Camille Pin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Camille Pin: is a French tennis player. As of January 15, 2007, she is ranked No. 62 on the WTA Singles Tour. Pin plays right-handed and is 164 cm, or 5' 3¾" tall.Camille's 2006 season was rather successful, for a player ranked lower than the top 100 in the women's tour. After a second-round loss to Serena Williams in the Australian Open, she made 3 ITF tour event finals, taking one of the titles at Lexington. She also made some reasonable showings at official WTA Tour events, especially qualifying for the Tier I event at Indian Wells and making the second round.

Camille Guillaume Bigourdan            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Camille Guillaume Bigourdan: was a French astronomer.In 1877 he was appointed by Félix Tisserand as assistant astronomer at the Toulouse Observatory, and in 1879 followed Tisserand to the Paris Observatory when the latter became director there.He spent many years verifying the positions of 6380 nebulas. He hoped to set a basis for future studies of the proper motion of nebulas; this turned out to be more or less in vain, since distant nebulas will not show any proper motion. However, he did discover approximately 500 new objects.In 1902 he participated in an effort to redetermine with greater precision the longitude difference between London and Paris. He became a member of the Bureau des Longitudes in 1903, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1904.

Camille Pissarro            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Camille Pissarro: was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.

Camille Jenatzy            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Camille Jenatzy: was a Belgian race car driver. He is known for breaking the land speed record three times and being the first man to break the 100 km/h barrier. He was nicknamed Le Diable Rouge ("The Red Devil") after the colour of his beard .

Camille Henderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Camille Henderson: a Canadian pop singer.She played the role of Shirley in the classic Canadian movie My American Cousin in 1985, and then went on to become part of the Vancouver-based pop group West End Girls from 1991 to 1993. Following her departure from the band in 1993, Henderson became a backing vocalist for Sarah McLachlan, and also appeared as a vocalist on albums by Delerium. She can be seen performing live on McLachlan's Mirrorball DVD.

Louis C. Camilleri            Origin/Culture/Country: Egyptian

Louis C. Camilleri: is the Chairman and CEO of Philip Morris International.Camilleri received a degree in economics and business administration from HEC Lausanne, the prestigious business school of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).Camilleri became CEO of Philip Morri

Andrea Camilleri            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Andrea Camilleri: is an Italian writer. He is considered one of the greatest Italian writers of both 20th and 21st centuries.Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing

David Camilleri            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

David Camilleri: is a professional footballer currently playing for Valletta in the Maltese Football League, where he plays as a midfielder.