Famous People with Name Emile

Emile Alphonse Griffith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emile Alphonse Griffith: former boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who won world championships in both the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions. He was the first boxer from the U.S.

Emile Derlin Zinsou            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emile Derlin Zinsou: is a Benin political figure and was the President of Dahomey (now Benin) from July 17, 1968 until December 10, 1969, supported by the military regime that took power in 1967. He was previously the foreign minister of Dahomey from 1962 to 1963 and from 1965 to 1967. He is said to have opposed the one-party Marxist policies of Mathieu Kérékou, who ruled Benin from 1972 to 1990. Zinsou was present at the signing of the treaty that formed the African Union on 12 July 2000 in Togo. He was born in Ouidah.

Emile Davenport Hirsch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emile Davenport Hirsch: He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television films and series, and became known as a film actor after roles in Lords of Dogtown, The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, and Into the Wild. In 2008, Hirsch starred in Speed Racer[1] and will appear in Milk with Sean Penn, his director from the film Into the Wild.Hirsch began acting at the age of eight,[4] appearing in minor roles on television shows and made-for-television films, including Kindred: the Embraced; Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and NYPD Blue. He made his film debut with the 2002 drama, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, where he starred opposite Kieran Culkin in the story of two Catholic school boys

Émile Nelligan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Émile Nelligan: was a francophone poet from Quebec, Canada.Nelligan was born in Montreal on December 24, 1879 at 602, rue de La Gauchetière. He was the first son of David Nelligan, who arrived in Quebec from Dublin, Ireland at the age of 12. His mother was Émilie Amanda

Emile Norman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emile Norman: was an iconoclastic[2] California artist known for mosaics, panels, jewelry and sculpture — with a meticulous attention to detail.In 2008, actors Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry met Norman, purchased land from him in Big Sur, became his neighbors and his close friends[4] — eventually taking five years[7] to produce a PBS documentary, Emile Norman: By His Own Design. Having moved in with Norman in 2003,[8] long-time friends Jeff Mallory and C. Kevin Smith had discovered movie film shot by Norman's partner Brooks Clement on a hand-cranked 16mm Bolex, footage that was eventually incorporated in the documentary.[9]

Oscar Emile            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Oscar Emile: was an track and field athlete and football (soccer) player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1920.

Oscar Emile,            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Oscar Emile,: was an track and field athlete and football (soccer) player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1920.At his Olympic debut he won the bronze medal with the Netherlands national football team, while at the same tournament he ran the 110m hurdles, where he was eliminated in the qualifying heats. In 1940 Van Rappard became a member of the National Socialist Dutch Workers Party, for which the Dutch Athletics Federation sentenced him after World War II.