French Famous Names Starting with Letter B

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Ligue 2 for Vannes OC.

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Ligue 2 for Vannes OC.

Was a French freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olymp

Was a French freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1924 she was a member of the French relay team which finished fifth in the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay competition.

Is a former bantamweight and featherweight boxer champion. He held the British championship at banta

Is a former bantamweight and featherweight boxer champion. He held the British championship at bantamweight and featherweight, as well as the European and Commonwealth featherweight titles.

Is a former professional Luxembourgian road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1946 to 1954 whe

Is a former professional Luxembourgian road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1946 to 1954 where he had 14 victories which included stage wins in the 1950 Tour de France, 1951 Tour de France and the 1952 Tour de France. He also wore the maillot jaune for 3 days during the 1951 Tour.

Is a Senegalese women's basketball player. A member of the Senegal women's national basketball team,

Is a Senegalese women's basketball player. A member of the Senegal women's national basketball team, Diouf competed with the squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics as well as later tournaments, including the 2008 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Is a French football player who plays in the defensive midfield. He currently plays for US Boulogne

Is a French football player who plays in the defensive midfield. He currently plays for US Boulogne in France.

Was a Senegalese poet and storyteller, active writer in the Négritude movement in the 1930s, as wel

Was a Senegalese poet and storyteller, active writer in the Négritude movement in the 1930s, as well as a veterinarian and diplomat.He was born in Ouakam, a small village near Dakar. In 1920 he went to study at Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, and later on

Is an Ivorian footballer. He plays for Thailand Premier League clubside Muang Thong United.

Is an Ivorian footballer. He plays for Thailand Premier League clubside Muang Thong United.

Is a former football (soccer) left defender for Bayern Munich and three other professional teams, as

Is a former football (soccer) left defender for Bayern Munich and three other professional teams, as well as the French national team. Being such a successful French player he is now a footballing legend in France and is widely considered as one of the greatest left backs of all time.

Was a French diplomat and cryptographer. The Vigenère cipher is so named due to the cipher being in

Was a French diplomat and cryptographer. The Vigenère cipher is so named due to the cipher being incorrectly attributed to him in the 19th century. Vigenère (IPA: [vi?n???]) was born in the village of Saint-Pourçain. At age 17 he entered the diplomatic service, and remained there for 30 years, retiring in 1570. Five years into his career he was sent to the Diet of Worms as a very junior secretary. At age 24, he entered the service of the Duke of Nevers

Was a Senegalese political leader, the first black African elected to the French National Assembly,

Was a Senegalese political leader, the first black African elected to the French National Assembly, and mayor of Dakar.Diagne was elected to the French national parliament in 1914 as Senegal's representative. He was reelected several times, serving until

Was a French Jesuit rhetorician and critic. Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1672, he taught t

Was a French Jesuit rhetorician and critic. Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1672, he taught the humanities, rhetoric, and philosophy, after which he devoted himself for a long time to preaching. The pleasure which Gisbert took in discussing pulpit eloquence with Nicolas de Lamoignon, the intendant of Languedoc, impelled him to write an essay on sacred eloquence, which he entitled Le bon gôut de l'éloquence chrétienne (Lyons, 1702). He spent ten years in retouching this essay, and augmented it considerably by adding to the rules examples drawn from Holy Scripture and the Church Fathers,

Is a Ivorian striker. As of 2007, Koissy plays for CS Sfaxien. Koissy was reported to be a target of

Is a Ivorian striker. As of 2007, Koissy plays for CS Sfaxien. Koissy was reported to be a target of Algerian club ES Setif in June 2007.

Is a Côte d'Ivoire football defender who currently plays for Angers.He has 37 caps for the national

Is a Côte d'Ivoire football defender who currently plays for Angers.He has 37 caps for the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup.

Is a French footballer who currently plays midfielder for AS Saint-Étienne. He is deep-lying playma

Is a French footballer who currently plays midfielder for AS Saint-Étienne. He is deep-lying playmaker well known for his perceptive passing. He was one of the first names on the team sheet for the Ligue 1 outfit. Gilles Girimadi, Arsenal's French scout is known to be a keen admirer of the Frenchman's qualities hence he has recently been linked with a move to Arsenal.

Was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was edu

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.

Is a French professional road bicycle racer who previously rode for UCI ProTour team Ag2r-La Mondial

Is a French professional road bicycle racer who previously rode for UCI ProTour team Ag2r-La Mondiale.

Was a French singer and actress whose fame today rests chiefly on the fact that Émile Zola used her

Was a French singer and actress whose fame today rests chiefly on the fact that Émile Zola used her as the principal model for his novel Nana.When she set it into her head to become a star on the operetta stage, everything happened exactly as Zola would later describe it in Nana: She was an immediate success on the stage and attracted scores of wealthy lovers. Hervé brought her out as Frédégonde in Chilpéric (1868) and went on stage himself to play Faust to her Marguerite in his masterpiece Le petit Faust (1869), a brilliant parody of both Goethe's play and Gounod's opera.

Is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Ag2r-La Mondiale.

Is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Ag2r-La Mondiale.

Is a Luxembourgian alpine skier. Bob first skied at the age of 3 and joined the Luxembourgian nation

Is a Luxembourgian alpine skier. Bob first skied at the age of 3 and joined the Luxembourgian national ski team at the age of 10 years. He participated at the Alpine World Ski Championshipsin Åre in slalom and giant slalom.

Was a child actor immortalised in two books written by his mother, the memoirist, Madeleine Henrey.

Was a child actor immortalised in two books written by his mother, the memoirist, Madeleine Henrey. He starred in two films, The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Wonder Kid (1951). In later life he moved to the United States and worked as a chaplain in Greenwich, Connecticut.

A Bosnian-French visual artist. His work includes video, installations,[1] site-responsive architect

A Bosnian-French visual artist. His work includes video, installations,[1] site-responsive architectural interventions,[2] photographic collage, more or less abstract sculpture, and printed publications.He studied at +cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in 1997. He continued his studies at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

Is an Ivorian striker who currently plays for Dutch Eredivisie side SC Heerenveen. He is well known

Is an Ivorian striker who currently plays for Dutch Eredivisie side SC Heerenveen. He is well known for his flair, skill and vision.His younger brother, Salomon Kalou, currently plays for Chelsea as a forward/winger. They also have 8 sisters. He was seen working in Marks and Spencers a couple of months ago for community service. He now lives with sibling: Soloman in Oxshott (a small hamlet near the Chelsea football club)

Is an Ivorian football player who currently plays for Sparta Prague.Bonno's professional career bega

Is an Ivorian football player who currently plays for Sparta Prague.Bonno's professional career began to reflect in the Ivorian Football and even in the CAF Champions League, at the end of the 2007 season, he is identified by the GFK Pro Football Managment Company of the FIFA agent Francis Gilbert Kacou who finds in him a rising star.

Is a French professional basketball player for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. After being traded in a

Is a French professional basketball player for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. After being traded in a multi-player deal with his former team, the Phoenix Suns on December 10, 2008, he made his debut with the Bobcats on Saturday, December 13.