French Famous Boy Names with Letter P

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1952 and 1974.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1952 and 1974.

Was a French sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. Initially intending to enter the foreign servi

Was a French sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. Initially intending to enter the foreign service, Pelliot took up the study of Chinese and became a pupil of Sylvain Lévi and Édouard Chavannes. Pelliot worked at École française d'Extrême Orient in Hanoi, from where he was dispatched in 1900 to Beijing to search for Chinese books for the École's library. While there, he was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of foreign legations

Is a French blues singer and guitar player.

Is a French blues singer and guitar player.

Was a French botanist who specialized in the study of native plants of French Polynesia. His book Pe

Was a French botanist who specialized in the study of native plants of French Polynesia. His book Petard Botanical Plant Encyclopedia is still widely used as a reference, and contains much information about traditional applications of Tahitian Noni juice. He held a doctorate in pharmacy.

Is a retired Luxembourgian football player and manager.He made his debut for Luxembourg in 1968 and

Is a retired Luxembourgian football player and manager.He made his debut for Luxembourg in 1968 and went on to earn 54 caps, scoring 4 goals.He played in 17 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.

Was a French composer and organist. He served as organist at St-Paul-St-Louis Church in Paris, succe

Was a French composer and organist. He served as organist at St-Paul-St-Louis Church in Paris, succeeding his father in the position in 1905 until his own death in Paris 1952 . His compositional output was wide-ranging, including two operas, several ballets, two symphonies, a number of orchestral tone poems, and chamber music, as well as large-form religious works, including two masses, an oratorio, and several smaller choral and organ works.

Was a French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France.B

Was a French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France.Broca's early scientific works dealt with the histology of cartilage and bone, but he also studied cancer pathology, the treatment of aneurysms, and infant

Was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing martingales

Was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing martingales and Lévy flights. Lévy processes, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy skew alpha-stable distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are also named after him.

Was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to P

Was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso's contributions to twentieth-century art.

Was a French actor. He made his film debut in Cresus (1960). Appeared in more than hundred films, mo

Was a French actor. He made his film debut in Cresus (1960). Appeared in more than hundred films, mostly in supporting roles, and is best known as a comic actor.

Is known most notable as a Catholic Jesuit missionary. He was born in Paris and died in the same cit

Is known most notable as a Catholic Jesuit missionary. He was born in Paris and died in the same city. He is sometimes confused with his elder brother François, also a Jesuit. Father François Ragueneau accompanied Father Charles Lalemant who was returning to Canada in 1628. Their vessel was captured by Kirke who was then blockading the St. Lawrence and he was sent as a prisoner to England. It cannot be determined whether Francois ever did visit the Canadian missions.

Was a French painter and writer.Paul-Elie Ranson was born in Limoges and studied at the Ecole des Ar

Was a French painter and writer.Paul-Elie Ranson was born in Limoges and studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs there before moving to Paris and transferring to the Académie Julian in 1886. There he met Paul Sérusier in 1888. Subsequently from 1890 he became a member and a creative leader of the Nabis group.

Is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Nord department. He is a member of the Sociali

Is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Nord department. He is a member of the Socialist Party.

Was a French pacifist, political activist, and author. He was also an anti-Nazi French Resistance fi

Was a French pacifist, political activist, and author. He was also an anti-Nazi French Resistance fighter, and a prisoner of the German concentration camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. A journalist and editor, he wrote hundreds of articles on political and economic subjects. He was viewed by Holocaust deniers as the father of their belief system.[1]

Is a French tennis player. He was active in the 1950s, playing in Wimbledon, the US Open, the French

Is a French tennis player. He was active in the 1950s, playing in Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open and the Davis Cup.

Was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on econom

Was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Democratic Republican Alliance center-right party.

Was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic inte

Was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such, he is connected to two other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic inte

Was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such, he is connected to two other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Was a Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics in eastern France after World W

Was a Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics in eastern France after World War I.Rohmer was born in Huttenheim, Alsace-Lorraine, part of the German Empire, to the farmer Albert Rohmer (1846–1912) and Marie-Elizabeth Metz (1850–1935)

Was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he beca

Was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1905.Sabatier's earliest research concerned the thermochemistry of sulfur and metallic sulfates, the subject for the thesis leading to his doctorate. In Toulouse, he continued his physical and chemical investigations to sulfides, chlorides, chromates and copper compounds. He also studied the oxides of nitrogen and nitrosodisulfonic acid and its salts and carried out fundamental research on partition coefficients and absorption spectra.

Was a French architect and theorist; and designed the 1880 reconstruction of the iconic Magasins du

Was a French architect and theorist; and designed the 1880 reconstruction of the iconic Magasins du Printemps department store in Paris. Though Sédille is best known for his Printemps design, he was also associated with the Creusot family foundry and was very active in professional associations and architectural education in the 1880s. He wrote a number of compelling pieces of architectural criticism, especially his review of contemporary Viennese and British architecture, and reflected what were by and large Teutonic theoretical concerns that have come to be understood as architectural realism, based on the works of Gottfried Semper.

Was a French footballer. He spent his entire career as a footballer at Olympique de Marseille (from

Was a French footballer. He spent his entire career as a footballer at Olympique de Marseille (from 1919 to 1926) and took the club to two Coupes de Frances (in 1924 as a defender and in 1926 as a goalkeeper). In 1921, he refused to play for the France national football team. He was also coach of the phocéen club in 1942.

Was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi m

Was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement.He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid 1880s.[1] In the summer of 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin.[2] While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he painted a picture that became known as The Talisman, under the close supervision of Gauguin.

Was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointill

Was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style.He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter. He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered. He also painted scenes of cities in France in his later years.

Was a French philosopher known for his works on invention theory and aesthetics. He studied at the École normale supérieure where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled Théorie de l'invention published in 1881. In his thesis, he argues that inventions are not the result of a rigorous scientific method but rather come as a deterministic consequence of a set of conditions in which the inventor lives. This theory was contested very soon after its publication in the 1882 edition of the Revue Internationale de l'Enseignement