Famous People with Name Gervais

Gervais Rufyikiri            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Gervais Rufyikiri: is the current president of the Burundian Senate. He has held this post since 17 August 2005. Rufyikiri is an ethnic Hutu member of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD).

Gervais Yao "Gervinho" Kouassi            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gervais Yao "Gervinho" Kouassi: is an Ivorian international footballer who plays as a striker for French Ligue 1 club Lille OSC.He began his career in the famed ASEC Abidjan youth academy, where he spent five years. Following this, he moved to Ivorian Deuxieme Division Zone Four side Toumodi F.C., where Al-Ittihad striker Ibrahim Touré, the brother of Arsenal and FC Barcelona players Kolo Touré and Yaya Touré, spent some time playing.

Gervais Gindre            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Gervais Gindre: was a French cross country skier who competed in the 1950s. He finished 29th in the 50 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

Occupé Bayenga Lopalo            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Occupé Bayenga Lopalo: is a French-Congolese footballer. He currently plays for FCM Târgovi?te.In January 2011 he signed a 2 and a half years contract with FUS de Rabat .

Erik Gervais            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Erik Gervais: is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1990s. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 1000 m event.

Paul Mullins Gervais            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Mullins Gervais: was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a lawyer. He was elected to Parliament at the Sherbrooke riding in the 1968 general election. After completing one term, the 28th Canadian Parliament, Gervais left federal politics and did not seek re-election in the 1972 general vote.

Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph-Charles-Théodore Gervais: was a doctor and politician in Quebec. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1917 federal election in the riding of Berthier as a Laurier Liberal and was re-elected in 1921. He was subsequently re-elected in the 1925 and 1926 elections from the riding of Berthier—Maskinongé before being elected in the 1930 federal election by Conservative Joseph Arthur Barrette.

Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais: was a Canadian lawyer, professor, politician.He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Montreal electoral district of St. James in a 1904 by-election called after the 1902 by-election was declared void. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1904 and 1908.

Drago Gervais            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Drago Gervais: was a Croatian Istrian poet and playwright, and one of the most prominent poets writing in the Chakavian dialect of the Croatian language. In Belgrade he eventually worked for the Yugoslavian state news agency, Tanjug, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but soon returned to Rijeka where he became the director of Rijeka's Croatian National Theater. He worked there until a car accident near Sežana suddenly took his life in 1957, at the age of 53.