Famous People with Name Benoit

Benoît Jacquot            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Benoît Jacquot: is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema. Then turned to writing and directing with the 1975 film L'Assassin musicien (The Musician Killer) which starred Anna Karina.[1] Over his career he has directed nearly thirty films, the most notable of which to American audiences are La Désenchantée (1990) starring Judith Godrèche and La Fille seule (1995) starring Virginie Ledoyen.

Benoît De Maillet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Benoît De Maillet: was a well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian. He was French consul general at Cairo, and overseer in the Levant. He formulated an evolutionary hypothesis to explain the origin of the earth and its contents.

Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier: was a French flutist and composer. At the time of his birth, Berbiguier's home town of Caderousse was part of the papal enclave Comtat Venaissin located within the Kingdom of France. The enclave was annexed by France in 1791 into its Vaucluse département[1].

Benoît Peschier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Benoît Peschier: is a French slalom canoer who competed in the early to mid 2000s. He won the gold in the K-1 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Peschier also won two medals in the K-1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold in 2005 and a bronze in 2002.

Benoît Poilvet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Benoît Poilvet: is a French professional road bicycle racer. He rode for UCI ProTeam Crédit Agricole between 2000 and 2007. For the 2008 season he joined the continental team Bretagne Armor Lux, with whom when the team was an amateur team he had raced. In May 2008, Poilvet took his first professional race victory with stage 5 of the Tour de Bretagne Cycliste.[1] Poilvet also took the leader's jersey which he would keep to win the race.[2]

Christopher Michael Benoit            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Christopher Michael Benoit: During his childhood and early adolescence in Edmonton, Chris Benoit idolized the Dynamite Kid (Tom Billington, later one-half of WWF tag team champions The British Bulldogs), and soon decided to join his idol in the wrestling profession.[11] Michael Beno

Pedro Benoit            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Pedro Benoit: was an Argentine architect, engineer and urbanist best known for designing the layout of the city of La Plata.Pedro Benoit was born in Buenos Aires in 1836 to María Josefa de las Mercedes Leyes and Pierre Benoit, an French emigré who had left his homeland following the Bourbon Restoration. His father, a trained architect, engineer and topographer instilled his interests in his son, who enrolled in 1850 at the Topography and Geodesics School of the Department of Engineering of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina's largest.[1

Adelin Benoit            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adelin Benoit: was a Belgian road racing cyclist, born in Châtelet.Surprising newcomer in Tour de France 1925, he got the yellow jersey during 5 days, and won the stage in Luchon ("l'étape des quatre cols").

Jean-Louis Benoît            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Louis Benoît: is a French actor, screenwriter, theater and film director. He is co-founder with Didier Bezace and Jacques Nichet of the theatre of l'Aquarium-Cartoucherie de Vincennes.

Maurice Benoit            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Maurice Benoit: was a French catholic priest, exegete, and theologian. His work was principally composed of the translation of biblical texts written in Koine Greek, and the co-ordination of the translation of the Jerusalem Bible. In particular he was the author of the translation of the Gospel of Matthew in this edition, as well as the Epistle to the Philippians, Epistle to Philemon, Epistle to the Colossians, and the Epistle to the Ephesians.