French Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Is a France-born Portuguese football midfielder, currently playing for French team RC Lens.

Is a France-born Portuguese football midfielder, currently playing for French team RC Lens.

Is a Luxembourgian politician for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) and author. He is a memb

Is a Luxembourgian politician for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) and author. He is a member of the national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Nord constituency since 2 February 1999.Schank is the President of the Upper Sûre Natural Park, and has been President of the National Tourism Office since 13 March 2000 to 2009. He has been the Secretary-General of the CSV since 2006, having first joined the party in 1994.

Was a French snowboarder and mountaineer. He was the first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard i

Was a French snowboarder and mountaineer. He was the first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard in 2001 via the Norton Couloir. In 2002, he disappeared attempting to snowboard the Hornbein Couloir.

Is French professional footballer who plays as a striker. Magna formerly played youth football for B

Is French professional footballer who plays as a striker. Magna formerly played youth football for Bordeaux, before turning professional with Stade Laval. He has also played in Romania for Dinamo Bucuresti and in England for Rochdale.

A French actress and former beauty queen.Miss Galanter won the 1998 "Miss World of Islands" and then

A French actress and former beauty queen.Miss Galanter won the 1998 "Miss World of Islands" and then the 1998 "Miss Tahiti" beauty contest that allowed her to compete for the Miss France 1999 crown, which she won.Ms. Galanter expanded her work into music

Is a French long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres. She changed nationality from he

Is a French long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres. She changed nationality from her native Kenya in 2002.

Was a French singer and actress.orn in Paris, France to a poor and dysfunctional Breton family, Marg

Was a French singer and actress.orn in Paris, France to a poor and dysfunctional Breton family, Marguerite Boulc'h was a child left to a life on the streets in the dark side of Paris. In her teens she got a break when she met one of the female music-hall

Was a French female tennis player.She also won the 1913 and 1914 French championships.

Was a French female tennis player.She also won the 1913 and 1914 French championships.

Was a French actress and theatre director. Having obtained through her liaison with the marquis de S

Was a French actress and theatre director. Having obtained through her liaison with the marquis de Saint-Contest the leadership of a small theatre on rue Satory in Versailles, she turned her attention to queen Marie-Antoinette and through her in 1775 gained the exclusive rights to balls and shows at the Palace of Versailles, followed in 1779 by rights over the theatres in Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud, Marly, Compiègne, Rouen, Caen, Orléans, Nantes and Le Havre.

Was a French writer and film director.Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and ret

Was a French writer and film director.Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. The family lived in relative poverty after a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work.

Was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette.In 1888, she gave up her career in

Was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette.In 1888, she gave up her career in the theatre to marry an up-and-coming young lawyer, Georges Laguerre. A friend and follower of the politically ambitious army general Georges Boulanger, h

Was a French astronomer active at the Nice Observatory from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contemporary ast

Was a French astronomer active at the Nice Observatory from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contemporary astronomical articles refer to her as "Madame Laugier". She discovered a number of asteroids. The asteroid 1597 Laugier[1] is probably named for her.

Was a French pianist.Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fiss

Was a French pianist.Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fissot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1891, and privately with Antoine Marmontel. Marguerite Long gave the first performances of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Piano Concerto in G major. From 1906 to 1940 she taught at the Paris Conservatoire, her students including Jacques Février,Willem Ibes and Samson François.

Was a French Olympic fencer. She competed in the individual women's foil competition at the 1928 and

Was a French Olympic fencer. She competed in the individual women's foil competition at the 1928 and 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

Was the pseudonym of French novelist.Her first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. Her intimate co

Was the pseudonym of French novelist.Her first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. Her intimate companion at the time, a translator named Grace Frick, invited her to America, where she lectured in comparative literature in New York City. She and Frick became lovers in 1937, and would remain so until Frick's death in 1979.

Was a French political figure of the Revolutionary period. As a supporter of the monarchist and libe

Was a French political figure of the Revolutionary period. As a supporter of the monarchist and liberal constitution of 1791 he joined the Jacobin Club, and here and in the Assembly became an eloquent advocate of all the measures directed against real or supposed traitors to the Constitution.

Is an activist and political commentator and writes under various names at home and abroad on issues

Is an activist and political commentator and writes under various names at home and abroad on issues such as women’s rights, child-prostitution, the bio-industry and pollution. She was born in France on October 3, 1968, daughter of a Czech playwright–commentator and a Dutch freelance photographer–journalist. She never knew her father since he was separated from her mother by the Soviet invasion in reaction to the Prague Spring on August 20, 1968, and thereafter died under suspicious circumstances in an accident in 1976.

Was a French author and major pioneering force for women's rights.Born in Paris, Maria Deraismes gre

Was a French author and major pioneering force for women's rights.Born in Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts. From a prosperous middle class family, she was well educated and raised in a literary environment that

Was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy pers

Was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death at age 28. Contemporary accounts of her voice describe its range, power and fle

Is a French middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.

Is a French middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.

A French actress who is most famous for playing "Jeanne" opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion p

A French actress who is most famous for playing "Jeanne" opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris. She did numerous full-frontal (breasts and vulva clearly displayed) scenes in the film, which were controversial for the time.In 1974, Schneider came out as bisexual.[1][2] In early 1976, she abandoned the film set of Caligula and checked herself into a mental hospital in Rome for several days with a woman she described as her lover.[3] This, coupled with her refusal to do nudity, led to Maria's dismissal and she was replaced by Teresa Ann Savoy.

Is a French handball player. She plays for the club HCB Nîmes and for the French national team.Sign

Is a French handball player. She plays for the club HCB Nîmes and for the French national team.Signate made her debut on the French national team in October 2004, in a match in Germany against the Norwegian team

Is a French slalom canoer who competed in the early 1990s. She won two medals at the ICF Canoe Slalo

Is a French slalom canoer who competed in the early 1990s. She won two medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (K-1 team: 1991) and a bronze (K-1: 1993).

Is a French actress, who has appeared in about 50 film and television productions between 1986 and 2

Is a French actress, who has appeared in about 50 film and television productions between 1986 and 2009. She studied under Patrice Chéreau in 1985-86 at the Ecole du théâtre des Amandiers in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre.

Was a French physicist.Cornu was born at Orléans, and after being educated at the École polytechni

Was a French physicist.Cornu was born at Orléans, and after being educated at the École polytechnique and the École des mines, in 1867 he became professor of experimental physics in the former institution, where he remained throughout his life. Although he made various excursions into other branches of physical science, undertaking, for example, with Jean-Baptistin Baille about 1870 a repetition of Cavendish's experiment for determining the gravitational constant G, his original work was mainly concerned with optics and spectroscopy.