French Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a French Symbolist poet, playwright, translator (from Greek), and journalist. An anarchist and s

Was a French Symbolist poet, playwright, translator (from Greek), and journalist. An anarchist and supporter of Dreyfuss, he later became one of the first people to defend the Armenians persecuted under the Ottoman Empire. In his youth, Quillard was a pupil of the Lycée Fontanes, where he counted Éphraïm Mickaël, Stuart Merrill, René Ghil, André Fontainas, Rodolphe Darzens, and Georges Vanor among his classmates

Is a retired pole vaulter from France. He was born in Lyon. On August 28, 1983 he set a new world re

Is a retired pole vaulter from France. He was born in Lyon. On August 28, 1983 he set a new world record with 5.82 metres. That day, after winning the contest, he became the first athlete to attempt to clear 6.00 metres in an official meet. Though he failed by a significant margin, "he didn't make a fool of himself," as his coach Jean-Claude Perrin said to the French media. Quinon's record was short-lived, however: on September 1, countryfellow Thierry Vigneron beat it by one centimetre.

Is a French writer, farmer and environmentalist. Originally a Muslim, he converted to Christianity w

Is a French writer, farmer and environmentalist. Originally a Muslim, he converted to Christianity when he started his studies in France as a youth. He invented the concept of « Oasis en tous lieux » - Oasis in any place. He proposes a society that functions in a manner that respects populations and land and supports the development of agricultural techniques that take care of the environment preserving natural resources. His theories relate particularly though not exclusively to arid countries.

Was a French Jesuit missionary in Canada. He was born at Clermont[disambiguation needed], entered th

Was a French Jesuit missionary in Canada. He was born at Clermont[disambiguation needed], entered the Society of Jesus in 1653, and came to Canada in 1663. In 1668 he established near Montreal a settlement for converted Iroquois (now Caughnawaga).

Is a former French rugby union player who spent his whole professional career in Bourgoin, and is cu

Is a former French rugby union player who spent his whole professional career in Bourgoin, and is currently playing for Fédérale 2 club SO Voiron. He won the European Challenge Cup in 1997 and, the same year, he lost the final of the French championship against Toulouse.

Is a social scientist who has been living in Colombia since 1979, and has been working on the countr

Is a social scientist who has been living in Colombia since 1979, and has been working on the country’s rural problems. He has undertaken in Colombia, his adopted country, several studies of rural economy, sociology and history. He also has been teaching at university subjects related to these topics to students in economics, rural development and forestry.

Is a French former football striker and manager. He is a historic player of AS Saint-Etienne, and wo

Is a French former football striker and manager. He is a historic player of AS Saint-Etienne, and won lots of trophy with les Verts before ending his career in his native town of Hyères with Hyères FC.He later had a stints as a coach at Red Star FC and AS Saint-Etienne.

Was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher. Restany was born in Amélie

Was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher. Restany was born in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent his childhood in Casablanca. On returning to France in 1949 he attended the Lycée Henri-IV before studying at universities in France, Italy and Ireland. From their first meeting in 1955, Restany maintained a strong tie with Yves Klein (to whom is attributed Klein-blue).

Was a French actor during the 1930s and 1940s[1]. In 1924 he took part of in the sculpturing art com

Was a French actor during the 1930s and 1940s[1]. In 1924 he took part of in the sculpturing art competition of the Games of the VIII Olympiad, making a group of sculptures on rugby and skating[2]His film debut came in the 1930's Toute sa vie, under the direction of Alberto Cavalcanti, followed by Les Vacances du diable, Daughter of the Regiment, Le Grand Jeu, and his most famous role as Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo.

Was French composer and early master of the French grand motet. Pierre Robert was educated at the bo

Was French composer and early master of the French grand motet. Pierre Robert was educated at the boys choir, or maîtrise, of Notre-Dame de Paris under the direction of Henry Frémart, Jean Francois, and Cosset Veillot before being appointed master of music at the Cathedral of Senlis in 1643. In 1650 he went to Cathedral of Chartres before returning to Senlis in March 1652. On April 28, 1653, he was appointed music master of Notre Dame de Paris, replacing Valentin de Bournonville where he remained ten years as head of the maîtrise.[1][2][3]

Is a French judoka.

Is a French judoka.

Was a French sculptor and medallist, and father to Louis Massignon. Roche was born in Paris, where h

Was a French sculptor and medallist, and father to Louis Massignon. Roche was born in Paris, where he first studied medicine and chemistry, but then switched to studying painting at the Académie Julian 1873-1878 under Alfred Roll, and exhibited at the Paris Salon 1884-1889.

Was a French violinist and composer. Born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Pierre Rode traveled to Pa

Was a French violinist and composer. Born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Pierre Rode traveled to Paris at the age of 13 and soon became a favourite pupil of the great Giovanni Battista Viotti who found the boy so talented that he charged him no fee for the lessons. Rode inherited his teacher's style to which he added more mildness and a more refined tone. It is also recorded that he made extensive use of portamento. He collaborated with Baillot and Kreutzer on the official Violin Method of the Conservatoire of Paris, published in 1802.

Was a French political figure during the Revolution and First Empire, a member of the National Conve

Was a French political figure during the Revolution and First Empire, a member of the National Convention, and of the Directory. Ducos was a member of the Council of Five Hundred, over which he presided on the 18th of Fructidor Coup (1797). At the end of his term, he became a justice of the peace, but after Barthélemy Catherine Joubert's coup d'etat (the 30 Prairial of the year VIII - 18 June 1799), he was named a member of the executive Directory, thanks to the influence of Paul Barras, who counted on Ducos as his partisan.

Is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Bbox Bouygues Tele

Is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Bbox Bouygues Telecom.

Is a French mathematician at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is parti

Is a French mathematician at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is particularly active in graph theory and recognized for his work on planar graphs and graph drawing. The Fraysseix-Rosenstiehl's planarity criterion is at the origin of the left-right planarity algorithm implemented in Pigale software, which is considered as the fastest implemented planarity testing algorithm [1]

Was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebr

Was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. The two-volume work Commutative Algebra that he wrote with Oscar Zariski is a classic. Other books of his covered projective geometry and algebraic number theory. He ran a Paris seminar during the 1960s, and became Professeur émérite at the Université Paris-Sud (Orsay).

Was a French noblemen, writer, economist, and government official, who was the father of Eleuthère

Was a French noblemen, writer, economist, and government official, who was the father of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company and progenitor of one of America's richest business dynasties of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Is the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World

Is the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality.Pierre was the fifth and last son of an affluent Catholic Alsatian family, and he was born at the family castle of Fillate

Was a French track and field athlete who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Was a French track and field athlete who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1981 for three of his works, including Aime le M

Received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1981 for three of his works, including Aime le Maudit. Under the title Ferdinaud Céline, The Collaborators was published in French in 1997 to great acclaim.[1]

Is a French former football player and manager. In the 1960s and again in the early 1970s, he coache

Is a French former football player and manager. In the 1960s and again in the early 1970s, he coached R.S.C. Anderlecht with whom he previously won four Belgian Championships between 1962 and 1966. As a player for Stade de Reims (1944-1953), he won two French Championships (1949, 1953) and the French Cup (1950); in 1947, he was the top scorer in the Division 1 with 33 goals.

Was a French naturalist and explorer. Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre. He made

Was a French naturalist and explorer. Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre. He made several voyages to southeast Asia, visiting the Philippines and Moluccas between 1769 and 1772, and India and China from 1774 to 1781. He was the first person to give a scientific description of the south Chinese fruit tree lychee.

Is a French painter, engraver and sculptor.Soulages is also known as "the painter of black" because

Is a French painter, engraver and sculptor.Soulages is also known as "the painter of black" because of his interest in the colour ("Both a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens up a mental field all of its own."). He sees light as a matter to work with; striating the black surface of his paintings enables him to make the light reflect, allowing the black to come out from darkness and into brightness, thereby becoming a luminous colour.

Was a French lawyer, journalist, writer and organizer of motor races. He is mostly remembered today

Was a French lawyer, journalist, writer and organizer of motor races. He is mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Marcel Allain of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas. He was born in Plomelin, a commune in Finistère, Brittany.