Famous People with Name Germain

Germain Pilon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Germain Pilon: was one of the most important sculptors of the French Renaissance. Trained by his father and (perhaps) Pierre Bontemps, Pilon was an expert with marble, bronze, wood and terra cotta; from about 1555 he was providing models for Parisian goldsmiths.[2] He was also skilled at drawing.

Germain Boffrand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Germain Boffrand: was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself.

Germain Sée            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Germain Sée: was a French clinician who was a native of Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin. He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1846 obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on ergotism. In 1855 he became médecin des hôpitaux in Paris, and subsequently worked at La Rochefoucauld (1857), Beaujon (1861), Pitié (1862) and Charité (1868) hospitals. In 1867 he succeeded Armand Trousseau (1801-1867) as professor of therapeutics and materia medica, and in 1876 attained the chair of clinical medicine at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, a position he held for the remainder of his career.

Bruno Germain            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Bruno Germain: is a former football player. In his playing career he played for seven French clubs, most notably Olympique Marseille and Paris SG, being capped once for France.

Henri De Saint Germain            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Henri De Saint Germain: was a French Olympic fencer. He won a silver medal in the team sabre competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

Marie-Sophie Germain            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marie-Sophie Germain: was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a gender-biased society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss. One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject