Famous People with Name Laurent

Laurent Koudou Gbagbo            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Koudou Gbagbo: has been the President of Côte d'Ivoire (also known in English as the Ivory Coast) since 2000. Formerly a history teacher, Gbagbo was one of the primary opponents of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

Laurent Crost            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Crost: is a French judoka.

Laurent Foirest            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Foirest: is a French basketball player with ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne. Foirest won a silver medal with the France national basketball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He stands at 6' 5¾" (1.97 m) and he also played previously with Saski Baskonia of Spanish ACB.

Laurent Sciarra            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Sciarra: is a French basketball player, currently playing for Entente Orléanaise 45.Sciarra began his professional career in 1990 with Hyères-Toulon Var Basket and moved to Paris Basket Racing in 1993, where he played until 1997 on the club's championship season.

Laurent Biondi            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laurent Biondi: is a former French cyclist. He was the Amateur Champion of France in 1982 and turned professional in 1983, competing until 1993. Later he was the team manager of the Ag2r-La Mondiale

Christophe Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Christophe Laurent: is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Agritubel.

Michel Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Michel Laurent: is a French former professional road racing cyclist.

Pierre Alphonse Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Alphonse Laurent: was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France. His result was contained in a memoir submitted for the Grand Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1843, but his submission was after the due date, and the paper was not published and never considered for the prize. Laurent died at age 41 in Paris. His work was not published until after his death.

Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent: was a French mathematician. Despite his large body of works, Laurent series expansions for complex functions were not named after him, but after Pierre Alphonse Laurent.

Jean Laurent            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean Laurent: was a French international footballer. He played as a defender. He was the elder brother of Lucien Laurent, who was also an international footballer, and scored the first goal in the history of the Football World Cup.