Famous People with Name Pons

Pons Of Melgueil            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pons Of Melgueil: was the seventh Abbot of Cluny from 1109 to 1122. He was descended from a noble lineage of Languedoc which had long supported the Gregorian reform. He himself was a godson of Pope Paschal II.

Jean-Louis Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Louis Pons: was a French astronomer.He discovered four periodic comets, two of which, 7P/Pons-Winnecke and 12P/Pons-Brooks, bear his name. One observed on November 26, 1818 was named Comet Encke after Johann Franz Encke, who calculated its orbit and its remarkably short period. Pons also co-discovered the comet formerly known as "Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes" and today known as 27P/Crommelin after Andrew Crommelin, who calculated its orbit.Pons received the French Academy of Sciences's Lalande Prize in 1818 for his discovery of three comets in that year.

Louis Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louis Pons: is a French collage artist. He specializes in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk.[2] In Agnès Varda's documentary The Gleaners and I, Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;"[3] and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.[2]

Jean François Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean François Pons: was a French Jesuit who pioneered the study of Sanskrit in the West. He published a survey of Sanskrit literature in 1743, where he described the language as "admirable for its harmony, copiousness, and energy", reporting on the parsimonity of the native grammatical tradition, informing the works of de Brosses, Dow, Sinner, Voltaire, Monboddo, Halhed, Beauzée, and Hervás, and was plagiarized by John Cleland (1778).

Josette Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Josette Pons: is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Var department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. She was elected deputy on June 16, 2002 of the 12th Legislature of the Fifth French Republic (2002–2007). The legislati

Bernard Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Bernard Pons: was a French politician and medical doctor who was a member of the Union of Democrats for the Republic from 1971 to 1976 and a member of the Rally for the Republic party thereafter. He has served as Secretary General of Rally for the Republic, Minister fo