Famous People with Name Edmond

Edmond Baraffe            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Edmond Baraffe: is a French former football striker and manager.

Edmond Charles-Roux            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Edmond Charles-Roux: is a French writer. She is the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, Ambassador of France, member of the Institute of France, and last president of the Suez Canal Company.

Edmond Gibney            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Edmond Gibney: is an Irish Olympic Three Day Eventing rider who represented Ireland in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Born in Co. Louth, Ireland to Eamon and Dolores Gibney, initially he worked in America where he went to the Atlanta Olympics as part of the America

Edmond Richer            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Edmond Richer: 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]

Edmond Auger            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Edmond Auger: was a French Jesuit. Later he was in Lyons, during a pestilence, devoting himself to the plague-stricken. When the pest had ceased, in consequence of a vow he made, the authorities, in gratitude, established a college of the Society to which Auger asked much to their astonishment, that the children of the Calvinists might be admitted. His whole life was one of constant activity, preaching and administering the responsible offices of Provincial, Rector etc., that were entrusted to him.

Pascal Edmond            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pascal Edmond: (born on 19 November 1971) is a French golfer.

John Edmond            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

John Edmond: is a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War. He was sometimes called the "Bush Cat". During his childhood, he and his parents moved between Scotland and Central Africa. He went to school in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia, Edinburgh, Scotland, and in South Africa at Christian Brothers College in Pretoria. He displayed a natural talent for music at an early age when he was given a mouth organ as a birthday gift from his grandmother at age three. John mastered the instrument within half an hour. As a boy scout, he played the bugle and was in the local scout bugle band. While at school in Edinburgh, he was chosen to sing in the famous St John's boys choir. He was regularly featured in lead roles at Christian Brothers College in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. John was lead drummer in the college's pipe band. He went on to win the South African Junior drumming championships at the Royal Scottish gathering at Wembley in 1953. After college, John was employed at the Roan Antelope copper mine.

Bob Edmond            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bob Edmond: is a former Australian sportsman who played Australian rules footballer with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and won two Commonwealth Games silver medals in weightlifting.

Ian Edmond            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

Ian Edmond: is a former British breaststroke swimmer. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he represented Great Britain in the men's 200 m breaststroke where he reached the semi-final, but was disqualified during his swim. He also represented Scotland at the 1998 and

Wendy Marjorie Edmond            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Wendy Marjorie Edmond: is a former Australian politician. Born in Bundaberg, she was a nuclear medicine technologist before entering politics. She was also a member of Amnesty International and the Wildlife Preservation Society, and had served as president of the Rainsworth Bra