French Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Is a French goalkeeper currently playing for Niort.

Is a French goalkeeper currently playing for Niort.

Is a French football (soccer) player, currently on loan at SC Freiburg from Stade Rennais. He is cur

Is a French football (soccer) player, currently on loan at SC Freiburg from Stade Rennais. He is currently first-choice goalkeeper at Freiburg. In 2005, Pouplin signed his first professional contract with Stade Rennais, signing up with the Breton club for three years. He made his debut in the 2003/4 french Ligue 1 season.

Was an advisor of the Emperor Charles V and his son Philip II of Spain, overlords of the County of B

Was an advisor of the Emperor Charles V and his son Philip II of Spain, overlords of the County of Burgundy and Counts of Burgundy. He was ambassador of Spain in France and England. In England, he organized the marriage of the queen Mary Tudor with the future king of Spain Phillip II.

Was a French painter and draftsman, who helped introduce the Italian Baroque style to France.A Frenc

Was a French painter and draftsman, who helped introduce the Italian Baroque style to France.A French contemporary, lacking the term "Baroque", said, "In his time the art of painting began to be practiced here in a nobler and more beautiful way than ever before," and the allegory of "Riches" (illustration, right) demonstrates a new heroic sense of volumes, a breadth and confidence without decorative mannerisms.

Was a French football defender.

Was a French football defender.

Is a French-Israeli documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for and/or won the César A

Is a French-Israeli documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for and/or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize (for Mur). She emigrated with her family to Israel as a child in 1966, she later served in the IDF. She describes herself as an "Arab Jew".[1] After settling in France, where she now mainly lives she graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1981.[2][3]

Was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and socia

Was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

Is an Ivorian politician. She is the President of the Parliamentary Group of the Ivorian Popular Fro

Is an Ivorian politician. She is the President of the Parliamentary Group of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) and is a Vice-President of the FPI. As the wife of Laurent Gbagbo, the President of Côte d'Ivoire, she is also first lady.

Was a French actress. After World War II, she returned to Périgueux, where she fell into a deep dep

Was a French actress. After World War II, she returned to Périgueux, where she fell into a deep depression. She committed suicide by self-immolation by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square.[1]

Is a retired female hammer thrower from Germany. She set her personal best (67.97 metres) on May 31,

Is a retired female hammer thrower from Germany. She set her personal best (67.97 metres) on May 31, 2004 at a meet in Fränkisch-Crumbach. Mathes also competed in the discus throw and the shot put.

Was a female tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.Mathieu is best remembered for win

Was a female tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.Mathieu is best remembered for winning the singles title at the French Championships in 1938 and 1939 and for reaching the final of that tournament an additional six times, in 1929, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, and 1937. In those finals, she lost three times to Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, twice to Helen Wills Moody, and once to Margaret Scriven-Vivian.

Was the wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The first woman scuba

Was the wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The first woman scuba diver, Simone was at Jacques's side during his major underwater accomplishments. She led him to the men and money who would build his scuba invention, she helped buy their beloved Calypso, saved the ship during a storm, and made sure each exploration achieved its objective.

Was a French music pedagogue, composer and pianist. She wrote mainly works for solo piano and organ

Was a French music pedagogue, composer and pianist. She wrote mainly works for solo piano and organ in addition to choral works, songs, chamber music, and sacred music. She notably published two volumes of piano music for children.

Was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931.Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon was born

Was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931.Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon was born in Béthune, France. She was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin, a French engineer, and Erma Maria Domenica Giorcelli, an Italian housewife. She grew up in Marseille. She went to Paris in 1931 and worked briefly as a singer, model and fashion designer.

Who occasionally used the anagrammatic pen name Emile Novis, was a French philosopher, Christian mys

Who occasionally used the anagrammatic pen name Emile Novis, was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.Weil was born in Paris in 1909 in an agnostic household of Jewish ancestry. She grew up in comfortable circumstances, as her father was a doctor. Her only sibling was the famous mathematician André Weil. She suffered throughout her life from severe headaches, sinusitis, and poor physical coordination, and spared no scrutiny to these in her philosophical writings. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes Simone Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range."

Was a female tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. Mathieu won 11 Gr

Was a female tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. Mathieu won 11 Grand Slam doubles championships: three women's doubles titles at Wimbledon (1933–34, 1937), six women's doubles titles at the French Championships (1933–34,

Is a professional football player who is currently playing for Giresunspor. His career began when he

Is a professional football player who is currently playing for Giresunspor. His career began when he first played for the French team AS Saint-Étienne.

Is a French handball player. She plays for the club Toulon St. Cyr and for the French national team.

Is a French handball player. She plays for the club Toulon St. Cyr and for the French national team.She participated at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China, winning a silver medal with the French team.

Is a French football player who plays in the defensive midfield. He currently plays for Maccabi Peta

Is a French football player who plays in the defensive midfield. He currently plays for Maccabi Petah Tikva in Israel.

Is a Senegalese professional basketball player with CB Gran Canaria in the ACB of Spain. He is also

Is a Senegalese professional basketball player with CB Gran Canaria in the ACB of Spain. He is also a member of the Senegal national basketball team.Savané attended the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated from in 2000. In his junior and senior

Is a French football player who currently plays for Ligue 2 club Clermont Foot on loan from first di

Is a French football player who currently plays for Ligue 2 club Clermont Foot on loan from first division club FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. Privat began his career with Sochaux in 2002, but moved to FC Marmandais, where he was watched by Sochaux scouts, until moving to the famous Sochaux academy in late 2005. He was apart of Sochaux's youth squad that won the Coupe Gambardella in 2007. Included on that squad were current teammates Frédéric Duplus,

Is a French football player, who last playing for Eintracht Braunschweig.[2] Morabit began his caree

Is a French football player, who last playing for Eintracht Braunschweig.[2] Morabit began his career with Union Sportive Forbach and signed in summer 2007 for German club SF Köllerbach. After one season with SF Köllerbach who scored 7 goals in 26 matches, signed on 21 August 2008 an two years contract with Eintracht Braunschweig.[3] After the end of his contract with Eintracht Braunschweig was released on 30 June 2010.[4]

A Franco-Moroccan singer. She was born in Casablanca, Morocco.From August 30 to December 13, 2003, s

A Franco-Moroccan singer. She was born in Casablanca, Morocco.From August 30 to December 13, 2003, she participated in the show Star Academy France's third season, becoming a semi-finalist. She was very popular due to being quite charismatic and also havi

A French singer of Moroccan origin, at the age of ten she moved to Paris with her family.In 2000 she

A French singer of Moroccan origin, at the age of ten she moved to Paris with her family.In 2000 she performed in the Eurovision Song Contest for France with the song On aura le ciel, which placed 23rd out of 24 with 5 points.She released an album of the

Is a French-Algerian football player who is currently playing as a forward for JS Kairouan in the Tu

Is a French-Algerian football player who is currently playing as a forward for JS Kairouan in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1. On June 28, 2010, Bencharif signed a two-year contract with Tunisian club Olympique Béja.[1] However, on August 28, 2010, it was announced that Bencharif had signed a two-year contract with another Tunisian club, JS Kairouan.[2]