French Famous Baby Names

Is a professional tennis player from France. Mannarino competes predominantly on the ATP Challenger

Is a professional tennis player from France. Mannarino competes predominantly on the ATP Challenger Series and Futures circuit. His career high rank is #88, achieved on 14 September 2009. Mannarino received a wild card to the singles draw of his home Gra

Was a Montreal journalist who led a series of fascist political movements between 1929 until his dea

Was a Montreal journalist who led a series of fascist political movements between 1929 until his death in 1967. During his political career he proclaimed himself the Canadian führer.Arcand published and edited several anti-Semitic newspapers during this p

Was a French astronomer.His educational background is unknown. In 1664–1665 he made observations o

Was a French astronomer.His educational background is unknown. In 1664–1665 he made observations of comets, and argued in favor of their following elliptical or parabolic orbits. (In this he was opposed by his rival Johannes Hevelius.) Adrien was briefly a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences from 1666 to 1668, and a founding member of the French Royal Obseratory. (He may have left the academy due to a dispute.) He then left for Italy and spent the next 20 years in that region, finally dying in Rome in 1691. Little is known about his activities during this last period.Auzout made contributions in telescope observations, including perfecting the use of the micrometer. In 1647 he performed an experiment that demonstrated the role of air pressure in function of the mercury barometer. He is noted for briefly considering the construction of a huge telescope 1,000 feet in length that he would use to observe animals on the Moon. In 1667–68, Arien and Jean Picard attached a telescopic sight to a 38-inch quadrant, and used it to accurately determine positions on the Earth.

Was a French mathematician.He was a student of Henri Cartan, and initially worked in homological alg

Was a French mathematician.He was a student of Henri Cartan, and initially worked in homological algebra. Subsequently, he became more interested in the work of Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia and made significant contributions to the fields of analytic geometry and dynamical systems.

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat National for Rodez

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat National for Rodez AF.

Is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Haute-Loire departmen

Is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Haute-Loire department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.

Was a French Jesuit missionary to China. He entered the Society of Jesus at Bordeaux, 5 November 163

Was a French Jesuit missionary to China. He entered the Society of Jesus at Bordeaux, 5 November 1635. He then taught literature and theology in various houses of his order until 1655, when he was sent as a missionary to China.

Was a French genre and historical painter, sculptor and illustrator. He began his artistic training

Was a French genre and historical painter, sculptor and illustrator. He began his artistic training as an apprentice glassmaker, but left for Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Cogniet and Isidore Pils. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868, being described by fellow artist and critic,

(born on 19 September 1979) is a French golfer.

(born on 19 September 1979) is a French golfer.

Was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his

Was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his extensive work describing the flora of China and Japan, based on the collections made by Armand David, Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges and

Was a French Olympic fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer

Was a French Olympic fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.[1][2

Is a French alpine skier. He represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he partici

Is a French alpine skier. He represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he participated in the Men's Downhill Skiing, in which he ranked 16 out of 64 participating skiers, Men's Super G, ranking 13 of 62 and Men's Super Combined making 1

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur f

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for SO Romorantin. He played on the professional level in Ligue 2 for FC Gueugnon.

Was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract a

Was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis. Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris (or possibly, in Toulouse, depending on sources) on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family. He was given a top quality education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris

Was a French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes. In 1921, Bolland worked as a test

Was a French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes. In 1921, Bolland worked as a test pilot for Caudron. The flight over the Andes was a publicity stunt to promote the new G3 model of the French aircraft manufacturer. Bolland started on April 1, 1921 in Mendoza, Argentina and kept a flight level of 14,750 feet (4500 m), which meant she had to fly around some of the mountains. After a 10 hours flight, she landed in Santiago de Chile. Many people had gathered to celebrate the feat — notably missing was the French consul who believed it was an April Fool's Day joke.

A French actress.She was credited with having developed a more natural, less stylized, type of actin

A French actress.She was credited with having developed a more natural, less stylized, type of acting[citation needed].She had a romance with Maurice de Saxe, which ended in tragedy when she was apparently poisoned by her rival, Maria Karolina Sobieska, Duchess of Bouillon. The refusal of the Catholic Church to give her a Christian burial moved her friend Voltaire to write a bitter poem on the subject.

Was a French poet, bookseller and publisher and an important figure in the modernist writing scene i

Was a French poet, bookseller and publisher and an important figure in the modernist writing scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1915 when she opened her bookshop called "La Maison des Amis des Livres", Adrienne Monnier was among the first women in France to found her own book store. While women sometimes assisted in a family bookstore, and widows occasionally took over their husband’s bookselling or publishing business, it was unusual for a French woman to independently set herself up as a bookseller. Nonetheless Monnier, who had worked as a teacher and as a literary secretary,

A French actress and pop-rock singer, born in Clamart, France.She joined the Conservatoire National

A French actress and pop-rock singer, born in Clamart, France.She joined the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique in 1996, where she studied drama, and acted in films until 2002, when she discovered the piano through Camille Bazbaz. After, sh

Is a former footballer from Luxembourg.

Is a former footballer from Luxembourg.

Was a French Jesuit and chronological scholar. His real name was Gilles Bouchier (or, less likely, B

Was a French Jesuit and chronological scholar. His real name was Gilles Bouchier (or, less likely, Boucher). His Doctrina Temporum from 1634 published for the first time some important chronological documents, in particular the Chronology of 354, and work on computation of the date of Easter (the cycle of Victorius of Aquitaine). He also published Anatolius Laodicensis and Hippolytus Romanus.[1]

Was born in Calais, France, where he spent his early years. His family returned to Dublin (both his

Was born in Calais, France, where he spent his early years. His family returned to Dublin (both his parents were Irish), where he was educated at tcd. He entered the excise servce around 1799-1800 as a gauger. He married Susanna Logie in 1808, and they had a son, also named Aeneas, who may have been their only child.According to British customs and excise records, he was appointed sub-commissioner of Inland Excise and Taxes for the district of Drogeda in 1813, and was eventually promoted to Inspector General of Excise in Ireland. He resigned from the service at his own request in 1824.

Is an actor and dancer currently living in France. In the United States his most recent role is that

Is an actor and dancer currently living in France. In the United States his most recent role is that of the Warlord in the Roland Emmerich film 10,000 BC. He also appeared in the suspense/thriller film Taken, written by Luc Besson, and in the Spanish public TV serie "Aguila Roja".

Was a French Olympic fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 Summer Ol

Was a French Olympic fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

Was a French Art Nouveau sculptor. Belgian by birth, Léonard moved to Paris when quite young and st

Was a French Art Nouveau sculptor. Belgian by birth, Léonard moved to Paris when quite young and studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris under Eugène Delaplanche. He became a member of the Société des Artistes Français in 1887 and a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1897. He regularly exhibited across France

She decided to start ballet when she saw her first ballet on TV (Swan Lake). Then she had the opport

She decided to start ballet when she saw her first ballet on TV (Swan Lake). Then she had the opportunity to start ballet as a hobby, and her teacher, Mr. Bertin, persuaded her to audition for the Opéra Ballet School which she joined when she was 10. She was a shy but graceful pupil and was destined to be at the top of the company. Agnes entered the Paris Opera Ballet company in 1987 at the age of 16, became Coryphée in 1988, Sujet in 1989 and première danseuse in 1993. She demonstrated her talents to this major ballet company and was named étoile after a representation of Swan Lake in October 1997.