Famous People with Name Hugues

Hugues Duboscq            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Hugues Duboscq: is a French breaststroke swimmer, who has competed for his country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, beginning in the 2000 at the Sydney Games.

Hugues Aufray            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Hugues Aufray: is a French singer of Spanish ancestry; Aufray began his career singing in Spanish.Aufray represented Luxembourg in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest, performing "Dès que le printemps revient" and finishing fourth. His most famous songs are "Santiano", "Céline", "Stewball" and in Spanish, "Barco de Papel".

Hugues Panassié            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Hugues Panassié: was a French jazz critic and producer. His most famous works were Hot Jazz: The Guide to Swing Music and The Real Jazz, published in 1936 and 1942, respectively. He is also remembered for financing a number of jazz records by artists such as Sidney Bechet and Tommy Ladnier.

Hugues-Bernard Maret            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Hugues-Bernard Maret: was a French statesman and journalist. The interest aroused by the debates of the first National Assembly suggested to him the idea of publishing them in the Bulletin de l'Assemblée. The journalist Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736–1798), owner of the Mercure de France and publisher of the famous Encyclopédie (1785), persuaded him to merge this in a larger paper, the Moniteur Universel, which gained a wide repute for correctness and impartiality.

Hugues De Lionne            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Hugues De Lionne: was a French statesman. In 1646 he became secretary to the queen regent Anne of Austria; in 1653 obtained high office in the kings household; and in 1654 was ambassador extraordinary at the election of Pope Alexander VII. He was instrumental in forming the league of the Rhine, by which Austria was cut off from the Spanish Netherlands, and, as minister of state, was associated with Mazarin in the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), which secured the marriage of Louis XIV to the infanta Maria Theresa of Spain.

Angelo Hugues            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Angelo Hugues: is a French football goalkeeper. Former player AS Monaco, Olympique Lyonnais and Wisla Kraków.

Jean-Baptiste Hugues            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Baptiste Hugues: was a French sculptor. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1875. He was resident at the Villa Medicis from 1876 to 1879. When he was alive, he gained some fame : his works were exhibited at the Salons and were always commented on by critics and writers at the time. He produced several sculptures including La Fontaine des Danaïdes in Marseille or La Gravure at the National Library, pediments, bas-reliefs on monuments, busts, fountains and ceilings of Parisian restaurants.[1]

Clovis Hugues            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Clovis Hugues: was a French poet, journalist, dramatist, novelist, and socialist activist. He wrote some of his works in Provençal and was the majoral of Félibrige.