French Famous Names Starting with Letter E

Was an French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Was an French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Was a french football (soccer) player in midfielder role and manager. He was born in Ris-Orangis.He

Was a french football (soccer) player in midfielder role and manager. He was born in Ris-Orangis.He played for Viry-Châtillon, Draveil, Juvisy, Stade Français (1928-29), RC Paris (1929-37), RC Roubaix (1937-39), FC Rouen (1939-45) and Red Star Olympique (1945-46). He won two french national tournaments in 1936 and 1940 and one Coupe de France in 1936.

Was a French sculptor. Apart from his major work, the war memorial in Malo-les-Bains, Delphaut was t

Was a French sculptor. Apart from his major work, the war memorial in Malo-les-Bains, Delphaut was the sculptor of the war memorials at Longuyon, Baslieux, Rehon and Charency-Vezin all in Meurthe-et-Moselle and that at Montmedy in Meuse. He also worked on a monument dedicated to the Serbs who had died in captivity. This is said to be somewhere in Saxony in Germany. [1]

Was a French academic and photographer who championed physical culture. He made physical education f

Was a French academic and photographer who championed physical culture. He made physical education fashionable in belle époque France through the publication of fitness journals and by opening a chain of exercise clubs.

Was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his pl

Was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of

Was a French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France.

Was a French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France. He wrote his dissertation on the jongleurs, and E. R. Curtius states that he was the first to recognize an influence of the medieval Latin poetics and rhetoric on Old French poetry[1].

Is a French former football striker.

Is a French former football striker.

Was a pioneer in forensic science who became known as the Sherlock Holmes of France. He formulated t

Was a pioneer in forensic science who became known as the Sherlock Holmes of France. He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace". This became known as Locard's exchange principle.

He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Trained at the Ecole Polytec

He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Trained at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, the eclectic Malinvaud was, together with Debreu, a student of France's greatest Walrasian economist, Maurice Allais. He became director of the ENSAE (1962-1966), director of the forecast department of French Treasury (1972-1974), director of the INSEE (1974-1987) and Professor at the College de France (1988-1993). In 1950, Malinvaud left Allais to join the Cowles Commission in the United States.

Was a French doctor and an amateur astronomer, best remembered for his 1859 observation of Vulcan. H

Was a French doctor and an amateur astronomer, best remembered for his 1859 observation of Vulcan. He graduated and obtained his diploma in 1848. He then started to work as a doctor in Orgères-en-Beauce and worked there until 1872 (the street where he worked is now named after him). Keen astronomer,

Is a Ghanaian-French footballer who currently plays as a striker for Servette FC in Switzerland.N'Ti

Is a Ghanaian-French footballer who currently plays as a striker for Servette FC in Switzerland.N'Tiamoah moved to France at a young age and holds a French passport, but started his professional career in Switzerland.

Was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the

Was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials, named after him.

Was a Polish-born French football player who played with RC Lens, US Valenciennes, SC Fives and Olym

Was a Polish-born French football player who played with RC Lens, US Valenciennes, SC Fives and Olympique Lillois, as well as the French national team.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer. Pagès won a stage in the 1939 Tour de France.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer. Pagès won a stage in the 1939 Tour de France.

Was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism (and the Cartesian t

Was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism (and the Cartesian theory of mechanics) in place of Aristotelianism.[1] The change within the University of Paris from Aristotelianism to Cartesianism during the 1690s was important in the history of the development of natural philosophy in France.[2]

Was a French theologian known for several works advocating the Gallican theory that the Pope's power

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]

Was a French film director. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des su

Was a French film director. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence),[1] and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time.

Was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.[1] He was the brother of fencer Richard Wallace.

Was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution. The Citizen Genêt affair

Was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution. The Citizen Genêt affair began in 1793 when he was dispatched to the United States to promote American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain.

Was a doctor and journalist[1].On the death of Daniel Tracey, owner of the Montreal Vindicator newsp

Was a doctor and journalist[1].On the death of Daniel Tracey, owner of the Montreal Vindicator newspaper, in 1832 O'Callaghan became the editor and brought in Thomas Storrow Brown to work on the paper. They proved to be an irreducible adversary of Lord Go

Was a French book illustrator prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration (the first

Was a French book illustrator prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century).He then began an association with the Leicester Gallery and Hodder & Stoughton; the gallery would commission painti

Was a well known French art photographer. He started making photographs in 1945 or 1946, in reaction

Was a well known French art photographer. He started making photographs in 1945 or 1946, in reaction to the banality and horrors of the Second World War. He sought to make photographs that were a celebration of life. He worked as a freelance photojournali

Is a French football player who plays for Besiktas J.K. in Turkcell Super League, the top league in

Is a French football player who plays for Besiktas J.K. in Turkcell Super League, the top league in Turkish football. He was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, southwest France. He is a midfielder, 1.86 metres tall.

Was an organist from Lyon in France of international fame who served the Archdiocese of Lyon for ove

Was an organist from Lyon in France of international fame who served the Archdiocese of Lyon for over 50 years. He took up his post at Lyon Cathedral in 1904 and was a professor at the Lyon Conservatoire. Called "the best French organist" by the well-known music critic Emile Vuillermoz, Commette earned similar tributes from his students and listeners from all parts of the world and is responsible for some of the earliest organ recordings. "These – 78s, of course – were intended for a local market: their world-wide success amazed the modest M. Commette."[1]

Was a French physician, historian, geographer, and politician who spent a majority of his life in Da

Was a French physician, historian, geographer, and politician who spent a majority of his life in Dahomey (now Benin). Dunglas was educated as a medical doctor. He found a passion in politics, and quit medicine when he was appointed to administrate Togo. Later, he worked in Ketou, Dahomey, and wrote a celebrated history of the town. He also found praise with his geographical studies and documents on traditions of the Fon people. After World War II,[1] Dunglas was named head of the multi-national research institution Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) in Dahomey.[2]