Famous People with Name Pons

Pons Of Melgueil            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pons Of Melgueil: was the seventh Abbot of Cluny from 1109 to 1122. He was descended from a noble lineage of Languedoc which had long supported the Gregorian reform. He himself was a godson of Pope Paschal II.

Fernando (Ferran) Olivella Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Fernando (Ferran) Olivella Pons: a former Spanish footballer.He earned 18 caps for the Spain national football team, and was their captain when they won the 1964 UEFA European Football Championship. He also participated in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He played his club football mainly for FC Barcelona.

Jean-Louis Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Louis Pons: was a French astronomer.He discovered four periodic comets, two of which, 7P/Pons-Winnecke and 12P/Pons-Brooks, bear his name. One observed on November 26, 1818 was named Comet Encke after Johann Franz Encke, who calculated its orbit and its remarkably short period. Pons also co-discovered the comet formerly known as "Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes" and today known as 27P/Crommelin after Andrew Crommelin, who calculated its orbit.Pons received the French Academy of Sciences's Lalande Prize in 1818 for his discovery of three comets in that year.

Francisco Vallejo Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Francisco Vallejo Pons: is a chess Grandmaster from Spain. On February 25, 2006, he defeated FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in 56 moves with the black pieces at the SuperGM Linares-Morelia chess tournament.

Louis Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louis Pons: is a French collage artist. He specializes in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk.[2] In Agnès Varda's documentary The Gleaners and I, Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;"[3] and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.[2]

Jean François Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean François Pons: was a French Jesuit who pioneered the study of Sanskrit in the West. He published a survey of Sanskrit literature in 1743, where he described the language as "admirable for its harmony, copiousness, and energy", reporting on the parsimonity of the native grammatical tradition, informing the works of de Brosses, Dow, Sinner, Voltaire, Monboddo, Halhed, Beauzée, and Hervás, and was plagiarized by John Cleland (1778).