French Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a French football player. He was part of France national football team squad at the 1924 Summer

Was a French football player. He was part of France national football team squad at the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was the first prominent French goalkeeper and is still today the youngest goalkeeper to represent France national football team at the age of 19. In 1913, he was also approached by Tottenham Hotspur F.C..

Was a biographer and French missionary among the Canadian Indians. He was born in the Diocese of St-

Was a biographer and French missionary among the Canadian Indians. He was born in the Diocese of St-Pol-de-Léon, Finistère, and died in Quebec. Cholonec entered the Society of Jesus in Paris, 8 October 1659, and taught in the colleges of Moulins and Eu from 1661 to 1670, except three years spent at La Fleche in the study of philosophy. After four years of theology in Paris, he departed for Canada in August 1674.

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur f

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for US Raon-l'Étape

Was a French actor. Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured h

Was a French actor. Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil. He appeared in several highly regarded films of the period, working with many of Europe's best known directors, including Luchino Visconti (The Leopard), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Porcile) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist and Partner). Other directors he has worked with are Liliana Cavani, Glauber Rocha, and Miklós Jancsó.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer. During his career, he won two stages in the Tour de Fr

Was a French professional road bicycle racer. During his career, he won two stages in the Tour de France.

Was a French flying ace, author, engineer, politician and sporting fisherman.In October 1943, Closte

Was a French flying ace, author, engineer, politician and sporting fisherman.In October 1943, Clostermann was commissioned and assigned to No. 602 Squadron RAF, remaining with the unit for the next ten months. He flew a variety of missions including fighter sweeps, bomber escorts, high-altitude interdiction over the Royal Navy's Scapa Flow base, and strafing or dive-bombing attacks on V-1 launch sites on the French coast. Clostermann served through D-Day and was one of the first Free French pilots to land on French soil, at temporary airstrip B-11, near Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy on 18 June 1944, touching French soil for the first time in more than four years. Clostermann was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross shortly afterwards, after which he was reassigned to French Air Force Headquarters.

Is a French organist, composer and teacher. Cogen studied at the Schola Cantorum. His compositions a

Is a French organist, composer and teacher. Cogen studied at the Schola Cantorum. His compositions are chiefly for the organ, and he has recorded music by Langlais, Tournemire and others.[1]

Was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo style and in the Goût grec

Was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo style and in the Goût grec phase of early Neoclassicism.

Was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along w

Was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years.

Awarded a diploma by the college of the modern arts of Paris, he published about fifty albums for yo

Awarded a diploma by the college of the modern arts of Paris, he published about fifty albums for youth, mainly with the publisher Grasset. His work as an illustrator and a meditative painter is worth to him an international recognition and numerous prizes. The variety of its sources of inspiration, in which it is again necessary to add the Jazz, the dodecaphonic music, or Jimi Hendrix, makes a polymorphic and unclassifiable artist.

Is a French rugby union player. Corréia, who is a loosehead prop, plays for Albi in the Top 14.[1]

Is a French rugby union player. Corréia, who is a loosehead prop, plays for Albi in the Top 14.[1] His only game for France was against Australia on 5 July 2008.[2] Corréia began his professional career at Albi in 2005, but was forced to leave the club following their relegation at the end of the 2007-08 season.[3] Having been named in the French squad for the 2008 mid-year rugby test series,[2] Corréia was targeted by most of the Top 14 clubs.[3] He chose to move to Stade Français

Was a French soldier, journalist, writer and Bonapartist militant. He fought as an officer in the Fi

Was a French soldier, journalist, writer and Bonapartist militant. He fought as an officer in the First World War and as a reserve officer in the armée de l'air during 1939-1940. He founded the Mouvement social européen. In 1940, he founded the collaborationist Ligue française d’épuration, d’entraide sociale et de collaboration européenne and with Jean Boissel

Is a professional French footballer.This midfielder started in AJ Auxerre before moving to a club in

Is a professional French footballer.This midfielder started in AJ Auxerre before moving to a club in Spain's Segunda B in July 2007.

Was a French Jesuit and royal confessor. Coton studied law at Paris and Bourges, entered the Society

Was a French Jesuit and royal confessor. Coton studied law at Paris and Bourges, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-five, and was sent to Milan to study philosophy. Here he became acquainted with Charles Borromeo. On his return to his native country he preached with success at Roanne, Avignon, Nîmes, Grenoble, and Marseilles; An acquaintance with Henry IV of France soon ripened into friendship. The Archbishopric of Arles being vacant, the king offered it to Coton, who refused it.

Was a French politician. He belonged first to the Independent Republicans (1946-1955) and then to th

Was a French politician. He belonged first to the Independent Republicans (1946-1955) and then to the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (1956-1962). He has successively been France minister of Reconstruction, minister of Housing and minister of Budget.

Was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity,

Was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he was received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Sklodowska-Curie (Marie Curie), and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."Prior to his famous doctoral studies on magnetism he designed and perfected an extremely sensitive torsion balance for measuring magnetic coefficients. Variations on this equipment were commonly used by future workers in that area. Pierre Curie studied ferromagnetism, paramagnetism

Was a French theologian, astrologer, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. D'Ailly was born in

Was a French theologian, astrologer, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. D'Ailly was born in Compiègne in 1350 or 1351 of a prosperous bourgeois family. D'Ailly studied in Paris, receiving the licentiate in arts in 1367 and the masters a year later.[1] He was active in university affairs by 1372.[2] D'Ailly taught the Bible in 1375 and the Sentences of Peter Lombard in 1376–1377. D'Ailly received the licentiate and doctorate in theology in 1381. He was affiliated with the Collège de Navarre, University of Paris, serving as rector in 1384, At the College, he taught Jean Gerson and Nicholas of Clémanges.

Was a Grand Master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) and a zealous opp

Was a Grand Master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) and a zealous opponent of the Ottoman Empire. Pierre probably joined the Knights of St. John in 1444 or 1445 and then left for Rhodes.

Was a French Jesuit missionnary in Siam (modern Thailand) during the 17th century. Pierre d'Espagnac

Was a French Jesuit missionnary in Siam (modern Thailand) during the 17th century. Pierre d'Espagnac was a member of a mission of 14 Jesuit scientists sent to Siam by Louis XIV, under the guidance of Father Tachard. As the others, he was given the title of "Royal Mathematician" and was sponsored by the Academy.[2] D'Espagnac left Brest in March 1687 together with the Loubère-Céberet mission to Siam.[3]

Was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics and Bishop of Soissons from 1685

Was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. In Paris he entered into close relations with Jean Chapelain. During the famous "dispute of Ancients and Moderns", Huet took the side of the Ancients against Charles Perrault and Jean Desmarets.

Is a French senior corporate executive director, presently an advisor to JPMorgan and a Chairman of

Is a French senior corporate executive director, presently an advisor to JPMorgan and a Chairman of Eircom. Danon began his career in 1981 as a financial analyst at Rank Xerox. For the next 19 years, he held a variety of roles including general manager of Belgium, general manager of Benelux, Switzerland and Austria, senior vice president of Xerox Production Systems, president of Xerox Channels Group in Rochester, New York and then president of Xerox Europe based in the UK. For the next four and a half years, he served as chief executive of retail at BT Group plc[2]

Was a French tennis player. In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked i

Was a French tennis player. In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked in the top 10 worldwide in 1958 and 1964. He was international veterans mixed double champion with his wife Rosy Darmon in 1961, and in 1968 and 1975 with G

Was a French cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France

Was a French cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France, and founder of the French school of spirituality, who could count among his friends and disciples St. Vincent de Paul and St. Francis de Sales.

Is a French diplomat and former French ambassador to the European Union (EU). He has been the Secret

Is a French diplomat and former French ambassador to the European Union (EU). He has been the Secretary-General of the Council since 1 December 2009, succeeding Javier Solana (perviously he was Deputy Secretary General)[2]

Was a French politician, who was the Minister of Defence for the French 5th Republic between May 14

Was a French politician, who was the Minister of Defence for the French 5th Republic between May 14 and June 1, 1958.