Famous People with Name Richer

Richer Dompierre            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richer Dompierre: is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1998 to 2009, initially as a member of Vision Montreal (VM) and later for the rival Union Montreal (UM). Dompierre was first elected to the Montreal city council in 1998 as a Vision Montreal candidate in the east-end division of Maisonneuve. VM won a landslide majority in this election under Pierre Bourque's leadership; after the election, Bourque appointed Dompierre as an associate member of the Montreal executive committee (i.e., the municipal cabinet) with responsibility for economic development. Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU) defeated Vision Montreal in the 2001 election. Dompierre was re-elected in Maisonneuve and served as a member of the official opposition; he also became a member of the newly created Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough council. In 2003, he filed a police complaint alleging that fellow Vision Montreal councillor Ivon Le Duc attacked him during a heated borough council debate over the removal of a Jean-Paul Riopelle sculpture. Dompierre ran as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2003 Quebec provincial election in the east-end Montreal division of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. He finished second against Parti Québécois incumbent Louise Harel.

Jean Richer            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean Richer: was a French astronomer and assistant (élève astronome) of Giovanni Domenico Cassini.Between 1671 and 1673 he traveled to Cayenne to observe Mars during its perigee. This led to an estimate of the distance between sun and Mars.

Edmond Richer            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Edmond Richer: was a French theologian known for several works advocating the Gallican theory that the Pope's power was limited by authority of bishops, and by temporal governments. In his Historia Conciliorum Generalium as with other works, Richer elaborated upon and defended Gallicanism, an early theory that described the limits of papal power, and provided one of the early constructs of what later evolved to be the modern concept of "separation of church and state", an important theme in the political history of the United States. Richer's explanation and defense of the theory and practice of Gallicanism was an expression of French resistance to the power and reach of the Pope during that period.[1]

Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer: was a French anatomist, physiologist, sculptor and anatomical artist who was a native of Chartres. He was a professor of artistic anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1898).

Claude Lavoie Richer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude Lavoie Richer: was a Canadian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s. He finished 52nd in the 18 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

Augustin Richer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Augustin Richer: was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Montreal county in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1814 to 1820.