French Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a former French male professional tennis player. The left-handed Gilbert, who won over $1,100,00

Is a former French male professional tennis player. The left-handed Gilbert, who won over $1,100,000 in prize money, reached a doubles career high ranking of 50, in early 1996.

Was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.Kreutzer's compositi

Was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.Kreutzer's compositions include nineteen violin concertos and forty operas. His best known works, however, are the 42 études ou caprices (1796), which are fundamental pedagogic studies.

Is a French goalkeeper currently playing for Le Mans UC72.

Is a French goalkeeper currently playing for Le Mans UC72.

Is a French politician and member of the MoDem. After one term in the municipal council, sitting on

Is a French politician and member of the MoDem. After one term in the municipal council, sitting on the right-wing opposition benches, he won a surprise victory in the traditionally Socialist town of Hérouville-Saint-Clair in the 2001 local elections, mostly due to the division of the left. He became first vice-president of the Agglomeration community of Caen la Mer. In the 2002 legislative election, he defeated the Socialist incumbent in the Calvados' 2nd constituency as a Union for French Democracy (UDF) candidate.

Is a French professional basketball player that was drafted 25th overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by th

Is a French professional basketball player that was drafted 25th overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was immediately traded to the Dallas Mavericks after being drafted. He is 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and he plays the point

Was a French architect [1] He was the architect on the Auroville project, designed by Mirra Alfassa

Was a French architect [1] He was the architect on the Auroville project, designed by Mirra Alfassa and financed by UNESCO. He also collaborated many times with Pierre Puccinelli, notably on the Île Verte in Grenoble.

Was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, that ?(3) is an irrational nu

Was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, that ?(3) is an irrational number where ? denotes the Riemann zeta function. In 1979 he published an unexpected proof of the irrationality of ?(3), which is the sum of the inverses of the cubes of the positive integers. An indication of the difficulty is that the corresponding problem for other odd powers remains unsolved. Nevertheless, many mathematicians have since worked on the so-called Apéry sequences to seek alternative proofs that might apply to other odd powers (F. Beukers, A. van der Poorten, M. Prevost, K. Ball, T. Rivoal, Wadim Zudilin and others).

Was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

Was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

Was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of Pakistani Field Hockey play

Was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of Pakistani Field Hockey player Feroze Khan in 2005 until his own death.Beaufrand won a gold medal on August 7 at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the field of Olympic sprint at the age of

Was a boxer from Luxembourg.Behm was member of the Luxembourgish Olympic team at the 1948 Summer Oly

Was a boxer from Luxembourg.Behm was member of the Luxembourgish Olympic team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He got eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight competition on points by Irish Willie Lenihan.

Was a French actor and director notable for directing (and starring in) the first production of Samu

Was a French actor and director notable for directing (and starring in) the first production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. Initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives The Company of Five and The October Group, Blin assisted Antonin Artaud in producing the latter's The Cenci at the Folies-Wagrams theatre in 1935. During the war, Blin was a liaison between the Resistance and the French Army.

Is a French former footballer who played striker for clubs in the French and British leagues. He is

Is a French former footballer who played striker for clubs in the French and British leagues. He is currently an agent in France.

Was a French boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the quarter

Was a French boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the middleweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Harry Mallin.

Was a French composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera. In 1944,

Was a French composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera. In 1944, he moved to Paris to study composition at the César Franck school, before entering the Paris conservatory and winning first prize in several classes as of Counterpoint and Fugue (Plé-Claussade Class), Aesthetic class (Oliveir Messiaen class) and Composition class (Darius Milhaud class). His training benefited also from Pierre Shaeffer's influence.

Is a French Olympic fencer.

Is a French Olympic fencer.

Was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 40 films between 1954 and 1998. H

Was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 40 films between 1954 and 1998. He was married to actress Pascale Audret.

Is a French former football defender who was a member of the French squad at the 1952 Summer Olympic

Is a French former football defender who was a member of the French squad at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Was a French football striker and manager.He was part of France national football team at the FIFA W

Was a French football striker and manager.He was part of France national football team at the FIFA World Cup 1934 and 1938.

Was a French cubist painter.He was born in Le Mans where his father, an officer in the French army,

Was a French cubist painter.He was born in Le Mans where his father, an officer in the French army, was temporarily stationed. The La Fresnaye's were an aristocratic family whose ancestral home, the Château de La Fresnaye, is in Falaise.

Was a French fencer and olympic champion. He received three gold medals at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Was a French fencer and olympic champion. He received three gold medals at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, in foil individual, in foil team, and in épée team.[1]

Was a French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and

Was a French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Is a French philosopher. Formerly a prominent communist author, he has converted to Islam and writte

Is a French philosopher. Formerly a prominent communist author, he has converted to Islam and written several books which have been controversial due to his anti-Zionist positions and denial of the Holocaust. In 1970, Garaudy was expelled from the Communist Party following his outspoken criticism of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Is a French Holocaust denier. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he was an important figure in Holocaust

Is a French Holocaust denier. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he was an important figure in Holocaust Denial, and he has written over 50 books, chiefly on Marxist themes. He was the center of a public scandal in 1996-1998, when he was put on trial on a number of charges relating to his book Foundational Myths of the politics of Israel (Les Mythes fondateurs de la politique israelienne). He was convicted of aiding and abetting the denial of crimes against humanity in the chapters "The Myth of the Nuremberg Trials and The Myth of the Holocaust" in the first edition, two counts of contesting crimes against humanity in a number of passages in a successive edition, publishing racially defamatory statements defaming the Jewish community with his claims of a "myth of the six million", and publication of racially defamatory statements and incitement to racial hatred for his " the Jews deceitfully fabricated evidence of the reality and extent of the genocide for financial gain". French courts consequently banned its publication and fined Garaudy 120,000 French Francs (about $20,000) and sentenced him to a suspended jail sentence of several years. Garaudy appealed this decision to the European Court of Human Rights, but the appeal was rejected as inadmissable.

Is a French rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1952 he was a crew member of the Fren

Is a French rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1952 he was a crew member of the French boat which won the silver medal in the coxless fours event.

Was a French avant-garde poet and co-founder (with René Daumal, Roger Vailland and Josef Šíma) of

Was a French avant-garde poet and co-founder (with René Daumal, Roger Vailland and Josef Šíma) of the artistic group and magazine Le Grand Jeu. The group, associated with surrealists, was "excommunicated" from the movement by André Breton. Gilbert-Lecomte experimented with drugs, in particular morphine, for both artistic and sociological reasons. As was predicted in his poetry, the writers death was the result of an infection caused from dirty hypodermic needles.