French Famous Baby Names

Is an Ivorian professional football player. Keïta plays as a Winger for Galatasaray in the Turkish

Is an Ivorian professional football player. Keïta plays as a Winger for Galatasaray in the Turkish Super League and the Cote d'Ivoire national football team. He is a versatile player who can also play on the right and left wings in, which is where he was positioned while playing for Lille before signing for Lyon.

Is an Ivorian football striker currently playing for the Portuguese team C.D. Trofense.Ouedraogo pre

Is an Ivorian football striker currently playing for the Portuguese team C.D. Trofense.Ouedraogo previously played for Stella Club d'Adjamé in Cote d'Ivoire, before signed in January 2009 with C.D. Trofense and played here his first professional game on 08 March 2009 against Académica Coimbra in the Liga Sagres.

Was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles Widor and Alexandre Guilmant and c

Was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles Widor and Alexandre Guilmant and composition with Jules Massenet. For twenty five years from around 1900 he was organist at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, in Paris. In 1923 he went to the United States of America, to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music. He returned to France in 1935, to teach organ at the École César Franck and at the Institut Grégorien in Paris.

Was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent f

Was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse, La Roue, and the monumental Napoléon.

Was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française. He r

Was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française. He received a degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1880, and published his first volume of verse in 1883, The Contempt. After several youthful novels, he moved to ironic analysis of the popular mores of the Belle Époque and achieved popular success. His first semi-autobiographical novel, Monsieur Rabosson of 1884,

Was a French sculptor who designed and made the FIFA World Cup trophy, first simply called 'Coupe du

Was a French sculptor who designed and made the FIFA World Cup trophy, first simply called 'Coupe du Monde', later renamed the Jules Rimet Trophy. The trophy was 35 cm in height, weighed 3.8 kg and was made of gold-plated sterling silver, with a blue base of semi-precious stone (lapis lazuli). On the four sides of the base there were four gold plates, onto which would be written the names of the winners of the trophy.

Was a French philosopher and historian of science. Abel Rey succeeded Gaston Milhaud as professor of

Was a French philosopher and historian of science. Abel Rey succeeded Gaston Milhaud as professor of the history of philosophy in its relation to science at the Sorbonne, and established the Institut d'histoire des sciences et des techniques to encourage cooperation between the sciences and humanities.[1] It has been argued that Rey influenced Philipp Frank and the formation of the Vienna Circle.[2]

Was a French politician and writer. Villemain had the great advantage of coming just before the Roma

Was a French politician and writer. Villemain had the great advantage of coming just before the Romantic movement, of having a wide love of literature without being an extremist. Most of the clever young men of the brilliant generation of 1830 passed under his influence; and, while he pleased the Romanticists by his frank appreciation of the beauties of English, German, Italian, and Spanish poetry, he did not decry the classics—either the classics proper of Greece and Rome or the so-called classics of France.

Is an Ivorian former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder.

Is an Ivorian former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder.

Is an Ivorian football midfielder who currently plays for Stella Club d'Adjamé.He was in nominated

Is an Ivorian football midfielder who currently plays for Stella Club d'Adjamé.He was in nominated for the Tournoi de l'UEMOA 2007 for Côte d'Ivoire. Diomande played for the Elephants at 2009 African Championship of Nations in Côte d'Ivoire, here presented the team as Captain

Is a French football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for Naval 1º de Maio.

Is a French football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for Naval 1º de Maio.

Is a former Ivorian rugby union footballer and a current coach. He played as a fly-half. Camara had

Is a former Ivorian rugby union footballer and a current coach. He played as a fly-half. Camara had 7 caps for Côte d'Ivoire, from 1993 to 1995, scoring 3 tries and 15 points in aggregate. He was selected for the first presence of his country at the 1995

Is an Ivorian soccer defender.

Is an Ivorian soccer defender.

Was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour.He was born to Hugue

Was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour.He was born to Huguenot (Calvinist) parents in Tours, France, where his father had moved from Germany. His father was a tailor, and Bosse's work always depicted clothes in loving detail [2].

Was a French naval commander. In 1687 he sailed from the Cape of Good Hope in the L'Oiseau, with a F

Was a French naval commander. In 1687 he sailed from the Cape of Good Hope in the L'Oiseau, with a French Ambassador, Claude Céberet du Boullay, onboard, to establish a French Embassy in the Kingdom of Siam. He sighted Eendracht Land on the West Australian coast and sailed in close to shore near the Swan River on 4 August - this was France's first recorded contact with Australia. He wrote that it looked very attractive, and fully covered with green despite "the fact that we were in the middle of winter in this country."[1]

Was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonome

Was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and was a friend of Isaac Ne

Was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas, and a teacher who took over the Eco

Was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas, and a teacher who took over the Ecole Choron, duly renamed École Niedermeyer, a school for the study and practice of church music, where several eminent French musicians studied including Gabriel Fauré and André Messager.

Is an Ivorian footballer who plays in the centre forward position. He currently plays for Lokomotiv

Is an Ivorian footballer who plays in the centre forward position. He currently plays for Lokomotiv Mezdra in the Bulgarian top division.On 23 May Bamba scored three goals against Belasitsa. Thereby Bamba joint the second african player, after Isaac Kuoki, who scored hattrick in a match from Bulgarian top division.

Was a Franco-Israeli sculptor who worked around Paris after 1947. His work consists largely of direc

Was a Franco-Israeli sculptor who worked around Paris after 1947. His work consists largely of direct carvings in stone and wood—very plain, pure forms, mostly figurative. Achiam was born in in Beit-Gan, Galilee and had a peasant’s childhood. His early education was in agronomy. Arrested by the British because off his political activities, he discovered his talent as a sculptor while carving bas-reliefs on the walls of his jail cell. He learned sculpture techniques by working as a stone cutter in the quarries of Jerusalem.

Was a French clockmaker[1] and amateur mathematician.[2] He is known for his discovery (independentl

Was a French clockmaker[1] and amateur mathematician.[2] He is known for his discovery (independently of and contemporaneously with German number theorist Moritz Stern) of the Stern–Brocot tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers; this sort of approximation is an important part of the design of gear ratios for clocks.[3] He also made many other horological innovations including refinement of his father Louis-Gabriel's Brocot escapement and the development of clocks with perpetual calendar mechanisms.[4][5]

Is a french fencing master and a collector of weapons, emigrated to Spain. Achille Broutin (named Aq

Is a french fencing master and a collector of weapons, emigrated to Spain. Achille Broutin (named Aquilès in Spain) is born in Metz in 1860. He is son of Emmanuel Broutin, fencing master and Marie-Louise Pasquier, dressmaker. C. Leon Broutin, fencing master too is one of his brothers.

Was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures

Was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Debussy was not only among the most important of all French composers but also was a central figure in all European music at the turn of the twentieth century.

Was a French garden designer who worked in the grand manner established by André Le Nôtre. The son

Was a French garden designer who worked in the grand manner established by André Le Nôtre. The son of the landscaper Henri Duchêne, Achille Duchêne was the garden designer most in demand among high French society at the turn of the twentieth century. He built up a large office to handle the practice, which was responsible over a period of years for some six thousand gardens in France and worldwide.

Was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noc

Was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890), and La poupée (1896).

Was a French painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne's.His friend Paul Cézanne once said, 'Well, he d

Was a French painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne's.His friend Paul Cézanne once said, 'Well, he didn't make it. Still, he was a lot more of a painter than all those dripping with medals and honours.