Famous People with Name Gilles

Gilles Kepel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Kepel: is a French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical Islam including Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam . He is currently the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2009-10 at LSE IDEAS (Centre for Diplomacy & Strategy)[1], at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gilles-Marie Oppenordt            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles-Marie Oppenordt: was a celebrated French designer at the Bâtiments du Roi, the French royal works, and one of the initiators of the Rococo, nicknamed "the French Borromini". As a boy Oppenord was sent in 1692 to study as a royal pensioner in Rome for eight years, where he largely ignored the remains of Classical Antiquity and spent his time instead sketching the Baroque sculptural ornaments of the preceding generations, principally under Bernini and Borromini, and in northern Italy the ornament of Mannerist architects like Pirro Ligorio. Three notebooks of his youthful drawings survive.[1]

Gilles Barbier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Barbier: is a contemporary artist born in 1965 in Vanuatu. He now lives and works in Marseille, France.

Gilles Tréhin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Tréhin: is a French artist, author, and creator of the imaginary city of "Urville". His book, also titled Urville, is based on his writings of the fictional city's history, geography, culture, and economy, and includes over 300 drawings of different districts of Urville, all done by Trehin.

Gilles Saint-Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gilles Saint-Paul: is a French economist at the Toulouse 1 University Social Sciences. He also is a scientific advisor to the Economic Studies Directorate at the French Ministry of the Environment. His main interests include the political economy of unemployment and how information technology affects wage inequality.

Graham Gilles            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Graham Gilles: is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1970s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.