Famous People with Name Hilaire

Hilaire Marin Rouelle            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Hilaire Marin Rouelle: was a French chemist. In 1773, he discovered urea. He is known as "le cadet" (the younger) to distinguish him from his older brother, Guillaume-François Rouelle, who was also a chemist.

Hilaire Penet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Hilaire Penet: was a French composer of the Renaissance, who worked for at least the earlier part of his life in Rome. Penet is most famous as the composer of Descendit angelus Domini, a four-voice motet which was used both by Palestrina and Costanzo Porta as source material for mass composition. The motet circulated widely in Europe and apparently was quite popular; Penet can be seen as a kind of Renaissance one-hit wonder on the strength and popularity of this refined, elegant composition. He also wrote two settings of the Magnificat which have survived, another motet (Virgo prudentissima), as well as a handful of secular chansons, all of which are settings of current popular tunes.

Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire: was a French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France. After 1830, he contributed to different newspapers, Le Constitutionnel, Le National and the Courrier français until 1833, when he gave up politics in order to devote himself to the history of ancient philosophy, undertaking a translation of Aristotle, which occupied him the greater part of his life. The reputation he gained from this work won him the chair of ancient philosophy at the Collège de France (1838) and a seat at the Academy of Moral and Political Science (1839).

Lee St Hilaire            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Lee St Hilaire: is a rugby player from Huddersfield, where he previously spent many years as a player and coach. St Hilaire joined the Bradford Bulls from Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in July 2006, to become assistant to Steve McNamara. Lee also played for Castleford and H