Famous People with Name Laurent

Laurent Esso            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Laurent Esso: is a Cameroonian politician, currently serving as Minister of State and Secretary-General of the Esso was born in Douala.[1] He was named Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency on May 16, 1988, then Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency on A

Laurent Pokou            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Pokou: is a former footballer from Ivory Coast. He was a notable striker for French club Stade Rennais and the Ivory Coast national team.Pokou was twice the highest goalscorer of the Africa Cup of Nations, scoring six goals in the 1968 tournament in Ethiopia and eight in the 1970 edition in Sudan, including 5 in one match against Ethiopia, which Ivory Coast won 6-1.

Laurent Koudou Gbagbo            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Koudou Gbagbo: has been the President of Côte d'Ivoire (also known in English as the Ivory Coast) since 2000. Formerly a history teacher, Gbagbo was one of the primary opponents of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

Laurent Crost            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Crost: is a French judoka.

Laurent Foirest            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Foirest: is a French basketball player with ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne. Foirest won a silver medal with the France national basketball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He stands at 6' 5¾" (1.97 m) and he also played previously with Saski Baskonia of Spanish ACB.

Rémi Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Rémi Laurent: was a French actor, best known for playing the son Laurent in La Cage aux Folles. He died from an HIV related illness in 1989.

Christophe Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Christophe Laurent: is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Agritubel.

Michel Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Michel Laurent: is a French former professional road racing cyclist.

Pierre Alphonse Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Alphonse Laurent: was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France. His result was contained in a memoir submitted for the Grand Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1843, but his submission was after the due date, and the paper was not published and never considered for the prize. Laurent died at age 41 in Paris. His work was not published until after his death.

Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent: was a French mathematician. Despite his large body of works, Laurent series expansions for complex functions were not named after him, but after Pierre Alphonse Laurent.