French Famous Boy Names with Letter P

Is a French organist, composer and teacher. Cogen studied at the Schola Cantorum. His compositions a

Is a French organist, composer and teacher. Cogen studied at the Schola Cantorum. His compositions are chiefly for the organ, and he has recorded music by Langlais, Tournemire and others.[1]

Was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo style and in the Goût grec

Was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo style and in the Goût grec phase of early Neoclassicism.

Was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along w

Was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years.

Awarded a diploma by the college of the modern arts of Paris, he published about fifty albums for yo

Awarded a diploma by the college of the modern arts of Paris, he published about fifty albums for youth, mainly with the publisher Grasset. His work as an illustrator and a meditative painter is worth to him an international recognition and numerous prizes. The variety of its sources of inspiration, in which it is again necessary to add the Jazz, the dodecaphonic music, or Jimi Hendrix, makes a polymorphic and unclassifiable artist.

Is a French rugby union player. Corréia, who is a loosehead prop, plays for Albi in the Top 14.[1]

Is a French rugby union player. Corréia, who is a loosehead prop, plays for Albi in the Top 14.[1] His only game for France was against Australia on 5 July 2008.[2] Corréia began his professional career at Albi in 2005, but was forced to leave the club following their relegation at the end of the 2007-08 season.[3] Having been named in the French squad for the 2008 mid-year rugby test series,[2] Corréia was targeted by most of the Top 14 clubs.[3] He chose to move to Stade Français

Was a French soldier, journalist, writer and Bonapartist militant. He fought as an officer in the Fi

Was a French soldier, journalist, writer and Bonapartist militant. He fought as an officer in the First World War and as a reserve officer in the armée de l'air during 1939-1940. He founded the Mouvement social européen. In 1940, he founded the collaborationist Ligue française d’épuration, d’entraide sociale et de collaboration européenne and with Jean Boissel

Is a professional French footballer.This midfielder started in AJ Auxerre before moving to a club in

Is a professional French footballer.This midfielder started in AJ Auxerre before moving to a club in Spain's Segunda B in July 2007.

Was a French Jesuit and royal confessor. Coton studied law at Paris and Bourges, entered the Society

Was a French Jesuit and royal confessor. Coton studied law at Paris and Bourges, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-five, and was sent to Milan to study philosophy. Here he became acquainted with Charles Borromeo. On his return to his native country he preached with success at Roanne, Avignon, Nîmes, Grenoble, and Marseilles; An acquaintance with Henry IV of France soon ripened into friendship. The Archbishopric of Arles being vacant, the king offered it to Coton, who refused it.

Was a French politician. He belonged first to the Independent Republicans (1946-1955) and then to th

Was a French politician. He belonged first to the Independent Republicans (1946-1955) and then to the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (1956-1962). He has successively been France minister of Reconstruction, minister of Housing and minister of Budget.

Was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity,

Was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he was received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Sklodowska-Curie (Marie Curie), and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."Prior to his famous doctoral studies on magnetism he designed and perfected an extremely sensitive torsion balance for measuring magnetic coefficients. Variations on this equipment were commonly used by future workers in that area. Pierre Curie studied ferromagnetism, paramagnetism

Was a French theologian, astrologer, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. D'Ailly was born in

Was a French theologian, astrologer, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. D'Ailly was born in Compiègne in 1350 or 1351 of a prosperous bourgeois family. D'Ailly studied in Paris, receiving the licentiate in arts in 1367 and the masters a year later.[1] He was active in university affairs by 1372.[2] D'Ailly taught the Bible in 1375 and the Sentences of Peter Lombard in 1376–1377. D'Ailly received the licentiate and doctorate in theology in 1381. He was affiliated with the Collège de Navarre, University of Paris, serving as rector in 1384, At the College, he taught Jean Gerson and Nicholas of Clémanges.

Was a Grand Master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) and a zealous opp

Was a Grand Master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) and a zealous opponent of the Ottoman Empire. Pierre probably joined the Knights of St. John in 1444 or 1445 and then left for Rhodes.

Was a French Jesuit missionnary in Siam (modern Thailand) during the 17th century. Pierre d'Espagnac

Was a French Jesuit missionnary in Siam (modern Thailand) during the 17th century. Pierre d'Espagnac was a member of a mission of 14 Jesuit scientists sent to Siam by Louis XIV, under the guidance of Father Tachard. As the others, he was given the title of "Royal Mathematician" and was sponsored by the Academy.[2] D'Espagnac left Brest in March 1687 together with the Loubère-Céberet mission to Siam.[3]

Was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics and Bishop of Soissons from 1685

Was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. In Paris he entered into close relations with Jean Chapelain. During the famous "dispute of Ancients and Moderns", Huet took the side of the Ancients against Charles Perrault and Jean Desmarets.

Is a French senior corporate executive director, presently an advisor to JPMorgan and a Chairman of

Is a French senior corporate executive director, presently an advisor to JPMorgan and a Chairman of Eircom. Danon began his career in 1981 as a financial analyst at Rank Xerox. For the next 19 years, he held a variety of roles including general manager of Belgium, general manager of Benelux, Switzerland and Austria, senior vice president of Xerox Production Systems, president of Xerox Channels Group in Rochester, New York and then president of Xerox Europe based in the UK. For the next four and a half years, he served as chief executive of retail at BT Group plc[2]

Was a French tennis player. In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked i

Was a French tennis player. In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked in the top 10 worldwide in 1958 and 1964. He was international veterans mixed double champion with his wife Rosy Darmon in 1961, and in 1968 and 1975 with G

Was a French cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France

Was a French cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France, and founder of the French school of spirituality, who could count among his friends and disciples St. Vincent de Paul and St. Francis de Sales.

Is a French diplomat and former French ambassador to the European Union (EU). He has been the Secret

Is a French diplomat and former French ambassador to the European Union (EU). He has been the Secretary-General of the Council since 1 December 2009, succeeding Javier Solana (perviously he was Deputy Secretary General)[2]

Was a French politician, who was the Minister of Defence for the French 5th Republic between May 14

Was a French politician, who was the Minister of Defence for the French 5th Republic between May 14 and June 1, 1958.

Was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given credit fo

Was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to modern calculus. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the s

Was a French cardinal, created in 1409. He was a papal legate in Avignon (1433–1464) and Archbisho

Was a French cardinal, created in 1409. He was a papal legate in Avignon (1433–1464) and Archbishop of Arles from 1450 to 1463.

Was a French pedagogue and historian who is best known as the founder of the International Olympic C

Was a French pedagogue and historian who is best known as the founder of the International Olympic Committee.

Was a French Catholic missionary writer from Toulouse. Jarric entered the Society of Jesus on Decemb

Was a French Catholic missionary writer from Toulouse. Jarric entered the Society of Jesus on December 8, 1582, and taught philosophy and moral theology at Bordeaux for many years. Although he desired to join the missionaries of his order, his wish was not fulfilled. Instead, he dedicated himself to writing on their behalf. The result was Histoire des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez Indes orientales, que autres païs de la descouverte des Portugois, which appeared in three parts: the second of which appeared in 1610 and the third in 1614.

Was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. A member of the same generation as Josq

Was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. A member of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, and a long associate of the Habsburg-Burgundian musical chapel, he ranks with Agricola, Brumel, Compère, Isaac, Obrecht, and Weerbeke as one of the most famous and influential composers in the Netherlands polyphonic style in the decades around 1500.

Was a missionary in New France. He entered the Society of Jesus at Paris in October 1677 and studied

Was a missionary in New France. He entered the Society of Jesus at Paris in October 1677 and studied philosophy at the Jesuit college of La Flèche (1679-81). After teaching Latin, classics, and rhetoric for five years at the college in Hesdin and rhetoric for two years at the college in Eu, Normandy, he was ordained a priest (1693). In 1694 he was sent to the Canada mission. After a short stay at Lorette, spent in the study of the Huron language, he was stationed (1697-1701) at Sault St. Louis (Caughnawaga) with the Iroquois