Famous People with Name Gilles

Gilles Marchand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Marchand: is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1987. His film Qui a tué Bambi? was screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Gilles Mimouni            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Mimouni: is a French film director. To date, his only directorial credit is the feature film L'Appartement (1996) - a tense romantic thriller starring Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, and Romane Bohringer, although he acted as executive producer for its U.S remake Wicker Park (2004).

Gilles Porte            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Porte: is a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, assistant cameraman French. He is a member of société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), of société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) and of l'association française des cinémas d'art et d'essai (AFCAE).

Gilles Kepel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Kepel: is a French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical Islam including Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam . He is currently the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2009-10 at LSE IDEAS (Centre for Diplomacy & Strategy)[1], at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gilles-Marie Oppenordt            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles-Marie Oppenordt: was a celebrated French designer at the Bâtiments du Roi, the French royal works, and one of the initiators of the Rococo, nicknamed "the French Borromini". As a boy Oppenord was sent in 1692 to study as a royal pensioner in Rome for eight years, where he largely ignored the remains of Classical Antiquity and spent his time instead sketching the Baroque sculptural ornaments of the preceding generations, principally under Bernini and Borromini, and in northern Italy the ornament of Mannerist architects like Pirro Ligorio. Three notebooks of his youthful drawings survive.[1]

Graham Gilles            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Graham Gilles: is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1970s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.