French Famous Names Starting with Letter E

Is a French fencer and olympic champion in épée competition. He received a gold medal in épée in

Is a French fencer and olympic champion in épée competition. He received a gold medal in épée individual at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.[1] He received a team gold medal in 1988, silver in 2000, and a bronze medal in 1996.[2]

Is a French-Ivorian football player who plays for French club Évian Thonon Gaillard in Ligue 2. He

Is a French-Ivorian football player who plays for French club Évian Thonon Gaillard in Ligue 2. He plays as a defensive midfielder and joined his current club ahead of the 2010–11 season. Tié Bi is a former graduate of the Olympique Lyonnais Reserves and Academy and began his career at the club. He amassed over 50 appearances with the club's Championnat de France amateur team winning two reserve titles before departing the club for Évian on a free transfer in May 2010.

Is a Senegalese footballer. He usually plays as forward. Traoré is currently attached to KAC Kenitr

Is a Senegalese footballer. He usually plays as forward. Traoré is currently attached to KAC Kenitra.

Is a French dramatist, novelist and fiction writer. His plays have been staged in over fifty countri

Is a French dramatist, novelist and fiction writer. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world. Schmitt studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon, France and École normale supérieure in Paris (1980–1985), where he received a doctorate in philosophy. The title of his dissertation was "Diderot et la métaphysique" (in English: "Diderot and Metaphysics"). He spent three years teaching in Cherbourg and at the University of Chambéry.

Is a French football coach and retired player who is currently involved with the youth sections of t

Is a French football coach and retired player who is currently involved with the youth sections of the French national side.As a player, Mombaerts played for Montargis, Nemours, INF Vichy, RC Lens, US Noeux-lès-Mines and ÉDS Montluçon.

Is a French film director, best known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning 1998 feature film

Is a French film director, best known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning 1998 feature film debut The Dreamlife of Angels. The film won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1] His first films were the shorts Rives (1992), Eternelles (1995), and Seule (1997). Zonca's second feature was Le Petit Voleur (The Little Thief) (1999). His most recent, Julia (2008), based on John Cassavetes' 1980 movie Gloria, starred Tilda Swinton and was shot in California and Mexico.

Is a French politician and member of the PS. In 2009, the PS selected her to lead the PS list in the

Is a French politician and member of the PS. In 2009, the PS selected her to lead the PS list in the DOM-TOM constituency ahead of the 2009 European elections.

Is a French journalist and television host born in 1982 in Verdun (Meuse). After a first year of jou

Is a French journalist and television host born in 1982 in Verdun (Meuse). After a first year of journalism studies in ISCPA - Institut des Médias, she joins the Institut International de Communication de Paris (IICP Paris X). She has also studied philosophy in Sorbonne. She works successively in Infosport, France Soir and finally Europe 1 with Jean-Marc Morandini. During an internship as personal assistant to Harry Roselmack on LCI she is selected by the direction of LCI and the channel makes her one of its anchorwomen on April 7, 2007. Since June 2008, she presents Top Story the first and main news show on TV Breizh.

Is a musician and a French visual artist. Maintaining a constant fusion between thought, instinct an

Is a musician and a French visual artist. Maintaining a constant fusion between thought, instinct and sensitivity, he pursues a simultaneity of practices and addresses the interplay between various compositional modes, relating to and using all languages.

Was a prominent French lawyer of Irish descent who was associated with pioneering all forms of aviat

Was a prominent French lawyer of Irish descent who was associated with pioneering all forms of aviation in France before the First World War. He made his first balloon flight at the age of 20. He commissioned a copy of the 1902 Wright No. 3 glider but had only limited success. He partnered Gabriel Voisin to develop many early aircraft. He was regarded as France's foremost promoter and sponsor of aviation, offering prizes (Coupe d'Aviation Ernest Archdeacon and the Deutsch de la Meurthe-Archdeacon prize), commissioning designs, developing theoretical knowledge, plus organising tests and events.

Was a French rower who competed in the Olympic games in 1920. He won a silver medal, along with Gabr

Was a French rower who competed in the Olympic games in 1920. He won a silver medal, along with Gabriel Poix and Maurice Bouton in the coxed pairs in Antwerp.[2]

Was a French astronomer and mathematician.in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Norm

Was a French astronomer and mathematician.in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Looking for some means of financial support while he completed his doctorate on quasi-periodic functions, he took a post at the Bordeaux Observatory, teaching some mathematics at the university.During World War I, he worked on ballistics and developed a novel method for precisely locating enemy artillery. When a gun is fired, it initiates a spherical shock wave but the projectile also generates a conical wave. By using the sound of distant guns to compare the two waves, Escaglon was able to make accurate predictions of gun locations.

Was a French dramatist. He made his debut as a writer at the age of sixteen with Une femme qui mord.

Was a French dramatist. He made his debut as a writer at the age of sixteen with Une femme qui mord. As a journalist, he was associated with Le Charivari, Le Rappel, Le Gaulois, and other publications. Many of his dramatic works were written in collaboration with Clairville, Flan, Monnier, Brisharre, Eugène Labiche, and others. The drama of Rose Michel (1877), of his own composition, ensured his place among the most successful French dramatists of the time. Among the other noteworthy vaudevilles,

Was a French weightlifter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in A

Was a French weightlifter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.

Was a prominent French archaeologist and anthropologist.

Was a prominent French archaeologist and anthropologist.

Is a Spanish-French mathematician. he studied architecture and mathematics at the University of Barc

Is a Spanish-French mathematician. he studied architecture and mathematics at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1936. He served as in officer of engineering in the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. In 1939 he fled to France, before moving to South America in 1940. After working six months as an architect in Chile, he moved to Argentina where Julio Rey Pastor offered him a lecturer position at the University of Buenos Aires.

Was a French mathematician who made several contributions in geometry.

Was a French mathematician who made several contributions in geometry.

Was a French historian. Denis became known as a specialist of Germany and Bohemia, and played a majo

Was a French historian. Denis became known as a specialist of Germany and Bohemia, and played a major role in the establishment of the Czechoslovak state in 1918. Along with Louis Léger, he is considered to be one of the most highly regarded twentieth-century historians of the Slav world in France. Upon his death, the Czechoslovak state bought his residence in Paris in order to create an institute for Slavic studies.

Was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery thirty-tw

Was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery thirty-two years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those moulds, but his research went unnoticed.

Was a French composer of Italian descent who is best known for sparking a controversy about the orig

Was a French composer of Italian descent who is best known for sparking a controversy about the origins of Impressionist music when his composition Tableaux Symphoniques was first performed in 1912. George Antheil asserted that Fanelli was "one of the greatest inventors and musical iconoclasts of all time",[1] but he remains an obscure figure.

Was a French civil engineer and entrepreneur. He was responsible for building a number of metal brid

Was a French civil engineer and entrepreneur. He was responsible for building a number of metal bridges in France and abroad, for instance the Margaret Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, and later for railroad building projects. The company he founded in 1846, Ernest Goüin & Cie. changed its name in 1871 to Compagnie de Construction des Batignolles; it still exists today under the name Spie Batignolles and claims to be the fourth largest construction company in France.

Was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing

Was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and for Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann).

Was a French architect, archaeologist and urban planner. He is mostly renowned for his plan to refor

Was a French architect, archaeologist and urban planner. He is mostly renowned for his plan to reform the city of Thessaloniki in Greece. After the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917, the majority of Thessaloniki was largely destroyed. The Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos forbade the reconstruction of the city center until a full modern city plan was approved. This was accomplished by the "Hébrard plan", the plan Hébrard had conceived and developed with the aid of the Greek architects Aristotelis Zachos and Konstantinos Kitsikis.

Was a French medievalist, professor at the University of Lille. was a French medievalist, professor

Was a French medievalist, professor at the University of Lille. was a French medievalist, professor at the University of Lille. He is best known for his 1910 work Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose, description et classement, on the manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose[1] and subsequent five-volume edition Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Loris et Jean de Meun. This latter work was for the Société des anciens textes français, and was a reconstruction into the supposed dialect of Orléans of the time; the work is regarded as uneven, with judicious choice of readings but arbitrary corrections of orthography[2].

Was a French (Italian ancestors) football forward. He was part of the France national football team

Was a French (Italian ancestors) football forward. He was part of the France national football team at the FIFA World Cup 1930.