French Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Is a French alpine skier. He represents France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.[1]

Is a French alpine skier. He represents France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.[1]

Is a French footballer who currently plays for Scottish Premier League club Hibernian, where he is o

Is a French footballer who currently plays for Scottish Premier League club Hibernian, where he is on loan from Serie A side Genoa.Pinau, a French youth international, started his career with Monaco, making two appearances in Ligue 1. He signed for Genoa on a five year contract,but was almost immediately loaned to Hibernian.

Is a retired French football striker and current minor Ice hockey coach. A late bloomer, he played f

Is a retired French football striker and current minor Ice hockey coach. A late bloomer, he played for seven different clubs, mostly in the country's second and third divisions. At the age of 30, he reached the French national team for his sole cap.

Is a French football player who plays for French club RC Lens in Ligue 1. Joseph-Monrose began his c

Is a French football player who plays for French club RC Lens in Ligue 1. Joseph-Monrose began his career playing for his local club in Bondy, AS Bondy, before moving to CRAF Liévin. After a stint there, he arrived at RC Lens in 2002. On July 20, 2008, he signed his first professional contract with the Pas-de-Calais-based side, which will keep him there until 2013

Known as Steve Gohouri, is a Côte d'Ivoire footballer who last played as defender for Borussia Mön

Known as Steve Gohouri, is a Côte d'Ivoire footballer who last played as defender for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga.In March 2007, he was called up to the national team for the friendly against Mauritius and scored a brace. He was also called up for the African Cup of Nations qualifier against Madagascar in Antananarivo and scored the opening goal in the 3-0 victory against Madagascar.

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Ligue 2 for Clermont Foot. He a

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Ligue 2 for Clermont Foot. He also holds Portuguese citizenship and represented Portugal internationally on junior levels.

Is a French football defender.

Is a French football defender.

Is a French association football player who plays as a central defender or as a defensive midfielder

Is a French association football player who plays as a central defender or as a defensive midfielder for Scottish Premier League club Hibernian. Thicot was trained at the Clairefontaine academy and was part of the France national youth football team that won the 2004 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship.[1] He signed for Nantes in 2003, but he did not play for their first team. He was loaned to Sedan for the 2006–07 season, for whom he appeared three times in Ligue 1, but he was eventually released by Nantes in June 2008.[2]

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Ligue 2 for Angers SCO. He made

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Ligue 2 for Angers SCO. He made his professional debut for Angers SCO in Ligue 2 on November 6, 2009 in a game against SC Bastia.

A French actor born near Agen. Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in

A French actor born near Agen. Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in 1992 at a rugby game and then auditioned for a role in the film Wild Reeds by AndrT TTchinT. He was, at the time, sixteen years old.He would later on play the role of a gay teenager in Come Undone by director STbastien Lifshitz. Rideau has a long acting experience that includes the films Loin, Le Ventre de Juliette, Le Clan, and Le Cadeau d'+lena. He currently lives with his girlfriend Celia and his daughter.

Was one of the last Frankish abbot-statesmen, a historian, and the influential first patron of Gothi

Was one of the last Frankish abbot-statesmen, a historian, and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture. Suger's family origins are unknown. Several times in his writings he suggests that his was a humble background, though this may just be a topos or convention of autobiographical writing. In 1091, at the age of ten, Suger was given as an oblate to the abbey of St. Denis, where he began his education.

A French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901.

A French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901.

When Bonaly first began to compete at the international level, her coach at the time, Didier Gailhag

When Bonaly first began to compete at the international level, her coach at the time, Didier Gailhaguet, fabricated a story that she had been born on Reunion Island before being adopted by the Bonalys in France. This was widely reported by the international media (including, for example, a lengthy feature during the CBS television broadcast of the 1989 World Championships) before the story was finally debunked. Bonaly now lists her birthplace as Nice. Later in her career, Bonaly was coached by her adoptive mother, Suzanne, a former physical education teacher.

Is a female hammer thrower from Germany. Her personal best throw is 72.74 metres, achieved in July 2

Is a female hammer thrower from Germany. Her personal best throw is 72.74 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Nikiti. This ranks her second among German hammer throwers, only behind Betty Heidler. A member of LG Eintracht Frankfurt Keil is a two-time nationa

Was a pioneer film actress.Suzanne Bianchetti appeared in her first film in the early 1900s and quic

Was a pioneer film actress.Suzanne Bianchetti appeared in her first film in the early 1900s and quickly became one of France's most loved and respected actresses. She appeared as Marie Antoinette in Abel Gance's 1927 epic, Napoléon and worked with many of the early notables of the silent film era such as Antonin Artaud and the singer, Damia.

Was a French actress. She was a founding member of Jacques Copeau's Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in

Was a French actress. She was a founding member of Jacques Copeau's Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris during the first season 1913/14. Later she worked with the troupe in New York from 1917 to 1919 and then again in Paris 1920 – 1924.During the first season of the Vieux-Colombier in Paris, Bing played several important roles, the most critically acclaimed of which was her Viola in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, (Nuit des rois). When war broke out in August 1914, the second season was cancelled as most of the men either volunteered or were called up for service.

Was the tennis-partner, lover, and later wife of Samuel Beckett. In the 1930s, Beckett, an avid tenn

Was the tennis-partner, lover, and later wife of Samuel Beckett. In the 1930s, Beckett, an avid tennis fan his whole life, chose Déchevaux-Dumesnil as his lover over the heiress Peggy Guggenheim. Six years older than Beckett, Déchevaux-Dumesnil was an aus

French actress, was born at Verdun, Meuse, and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where in 1897 she

French actress, was born at Verdun, Meuse, and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where in 1897 she obtained the first prize for comedy, and the second for tragedy. She then became associated with, and subsequently married, Aurélien Lugné-Poe (b. 1870), the actor-manager, who had founded a new school of modern drama, L'Œuvre, and she had a brilliant success in several plays produced by him.

Was a French Dadaist painter. Born in Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie Regio

Was a French Dadaist painter. Born in Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie Region of France, she was the fourth of six children born into the artistic family of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp.

Was an organist, music teacher, composer and music theorist. Her magnum opus was in the field of mus

Was an organist, music teacher, composer and music theorist. Her magnum opus was in the field of musicology. During World War II, Vantoura and her family fled from the Nazis to southern France. There she studied the cantillation marks, (melodic accents or ta`amim), in the Hebrew Bible (Masoretic Text). After the war she put aside this work, until her retirement in 1970. She died October 22, 2000 in Lausanne, Switzerland at the age of 88. Her husband Maurice Haïk had died in 1976. The couple had no children.

Was a screenwriter and director for numerous motion pictures. She often worked with Francois Truffau

Was a screenwriter and director for numerous motion pictures. She often worked with Francois Truffaut. The 'script girl' Joelle, played by Nathalie Baye in Truffaut's Day for Night was based on Schiffman. It accurately protrayed the close collaboration she had with Truffaut and other directors.

Was a World War II Allied secret agent.After an assessment for fluency in the French language and a

Was a World War II Allied secret agent.After an assessment for fluency in the French language and a series of interviews, she was inducted into SOE. She received intensive training in night and daylight navigation, escape and evasion, both Allied and Germ

Was a French painter. In 1894 Valadon was the first woman painter admitted to the Société National

Was a French painter. In 1894 Valadon was the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.Born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France, the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon became a circus acrobat at the age of fifteen, but a year later, a fall from a trapeze ended that career.

Was a French ballet dancer, stage actor, opera singer and theatre director, active in France, Belgiu

Was a French ballet dancer, stage actor, opera singer and theatre director, active in France, Belgium and Russia. Suzette Artus was born the child of the musician Pierre-Jérôme Artus Truyart and the actress Marie Bienfait and debuted as a dancer the Desgraviers troupe in Metz in the 1759-60 season before her debut as first singer in Brussels in 1766 as Zerbine in Baurans and Pergolesi's La Servante maîtresse. On June 30 1766, she was one of fifteen actors granted exclusive right by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria to perform in Brussels

Is a vivacious French entertainer who starred in many different films. Her real name is Suzanne Pier

Is a vivacious French entertainer who starred in many different films. Her real name is Suzanne Pierrette Delaire. She acted in films directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Dréville, Jean Grémillon, Marcel L'Herbier, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Luchino Visconti, René Clément and Gérard Oury. She is also famous in France as singer ("Avec son Tra-la-la").