Famous People with Name Cecile

Cecile De Brunhoff            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Cecile De Brunhoff: was a French storyteller and the co-creator of the Babar stories.She told the stories to her son when he was sick, and her husband Jean de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated the children's books that became popular world-wide.

Cécile Ngambi            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Cécile Ngambi: is a retired Cameroonian heptathlete.She competed in pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 100 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Cécile Nowak            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Cécile Nowak: is a French judoka, world champion and olympic champion.

Cecile Licad            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Cecile Licad: a Filipina virtuoso classical pianist.Licad began her piano studies at the age of three with her mother, Rosario Licad, and later studied with the highly regarded Rosario Picazo. At the age of seven, she made her debut as soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Philippines. She went on to study with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music.Cecile Licad's repertoire as an orchestral soloist ranges from the classical repertoire of Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic literature of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Rachmaninoff to the modern works of Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Bartók.

Cécile Ousset            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Cécile Ousset: a French pianist.Cécile was born in Tarbes, France, and gave her first recital at the age of five, subsequently studying at the Paris Conservatoire with Marcel Ciampi (who had formerly taught Yaltah and Hephzibah Menuhin) where, aged only fourteen, she was awarded first prize in the piano graduation class of 1950. She has won major prizes in numerous international competitions including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud in Geneva, the 4th prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium (in 1956, when other contestants included Vladimir Ashkenazy who won the 1st prize, John Browning, Lazar Berman, Tamás Vásáry and Peter Frankl), the Busoni and the Van Cliburn.