Famous People with Name Pons

Pons Of Melgueil            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pons Of Melgueil: was the seventh Abbot of Cluny from 1109 to 1122. He was descended from a noble lineage of Languedoc which had long supported the Gregorian reform. He himself was a godson of Pope Paschal II.

Francisco Vallejo Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Francisco Vallejo Pons: is a chess Grandmaster from Spain. On February 25, 2006, he defeated FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in 56 moves with the black pieces at the SuperGM Linares-Morelia chess tournament.

Louis Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louis Pons: is a French collage artist. He specializes in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk.[2] In Agnès Varda's documentary The Gleaners and I, Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;"[3] and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.[2]

Jean François Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean François Pons: was a French Jesuit who pioneered the study of Sanskrit in the West. He published a survey of Sanskrit literature in 1743, where he described the language as "admirable for its harmony, copiousness, and energy", reporting on the parsimonity of the native grammatical tradition, informing the works of de Brosses, Dow, Sinner, Voltaire, Monboddo, Halhed, Beauzée, and Hervás, and was plagiarized by John Cleland (1778).

Cipriano Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Cipriano Pons: was an Argentine Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Marcello Rodríguez Pons            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Marcello Rodríguez Pons: is an Argentine architect and sailor.