Famous People with Name Pascal

Blaise Pascal            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Blaise Pascal: was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Anders Hald writes, "To lighten his father's work as a tax official, Pascal invented a calculating machine for addition and subtraction and took care of its construction and sale." Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method.

Jean-Claude Pascal            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Claude Pascal: After surviving the Second World War in Straßburg, Pascal first studied at the Sorbonne-university and then turned to fashion-designing for Christian Dior. On his work for costumes for the theatre-play Don Juan he came into contact with acting and made his first cinema-movie in 1949 with Quattro rose rosse. Many movies should follow, among them La Belle et l'empereur ("Die schöne Lügnerin", 1959) (aside to Romy Schneider) or Angelique and the Sultan (Angélique et le sultan, 1968) aside to Michèle Mercier.

Étienne Pascal            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Étienne Pascal: was the father of Blaise Pascal. He also had three daughters, two of whom survived past childhood: Gilberte (°1620) and Jacqueline (°1625). His wife Antoinette Begon died in 1626.Étienne Pascal served on a scientific committee (whose members included Pier

Jean-Thenistor Pascal            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Jean-Thenistor Pascal: is a Haitian-Canadian professional boxer.Pascal made his professional debut on February 3, 2005, defeating Justin Hahn by second round technical knockout. Pascal won his next 12 fights, before fighting Lucas Green Arias on September 30, 2006, at the Montreal Casino in Montreal.

Nelon Troy Pascal            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Nelon Troy Pascal: is a cricketer who has played one One-Day International match for the West Indies. His main first-class and List A cricket has been for the Windward Islands. He played for the West Indies in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. He spent 2008 in E