Delaunay
Encyclopedia
Arts
- Catherine DelaunayCatherine DelaunayCatherine Delaunay is a French jazz clarinet player and composer, best known as a leader of Y'en a qui manquent pas d'air. She is also a member of the French Laurent Dehors's big band "Tous Dehors".-Biography:...
(born 1969), French jazz clarinet player and composer - Charles DelaunayCharles DelaunayCharles Delaunay was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France....
(1911–1988), French author and jazz expert - Elie DelaunayElie DelaunayJules-Élie Delaunay was a French academic painter.He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe...
(1828–1891), French painter - Louis Arsene DelaunayLouis Arsene DelaunayLouis Arsène Delaunay , French actor, was born in Paris, the son of a wine-seller. He studied at the Conservatoire, and made his first formal appearance on the stage in 1845, in Molière's Tartuffe at the Odon....
(1826–1903), French actor - Robert DelaunayRobert DelaunayRobert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee...
(1885–1941), French artist - Danielle Delaunay, a singer
- Sonia DelaunaySonia DelaunaySonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design...
(1885–1979), Ukrainian-French artist - Vadim DelaunayVadim DelaunayVadim Nikolaevich Delaunay was a Russian poet and dissident, who participated in the1968 Red Square demonstration of protest against military suppression of the Prague Spring.- Biography :...
(1947–1983), Russian poet and dissident
Football
- Henri DelaunayHenri DelaunayHenri Delaunay was a French football administrator.After playing for the Paris team Étoile des Deux Lacs, he became a referee...
(1883–1955), French football administrator - Jean-Pierre DelaunayJean-Pierre DelaunayJean-Pierre Delaunay is a French former footballer who spent most of his career with Le Havre AC, making 315 appearances for Le HAC, a club record...
(born 1966), French footballer - Pierre DelaunayPierre DelaunayPierre Delauney was the second General Secretary of UEFA. He succeeded his father Henri Delaunay in the post, on an interim basis from his father's death on 9 November 1955 and then officially from 8 June 1956.-References:*...
, football administrator
Mathematics
- Boris DelaunayBoris DelaunayBoris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone was one of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet/Russian mathematician, and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone....
(1890–1980), Soviet/Russian mathematician - Charles-Eugène DelaunayCharles-Eugène DelaunayCharles-Eugène Delaunay was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics.-Life:...
(1816–1872), French astronomer and mathematician
Politics
- Joseph DelaunayJoseph DelaunayJoseph Delaunay was a French deputy.He was national commissar at the Tribunal of Angers and, in 1791, he was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly by the département of Maine-et-Loire. In 1792, he was re-elected as deputy to the National Convention by the same département...
(1752–1794), sometimes called Delaunay d'Angers; a revolutionary-era French politician - Michèle DelaunayMichèle DelaunayMichèle Delaunay is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the 2nd constituency, and is a member of the Socialist Party....
(born 1947), member of the National Assembly of France
Characters
- Alcuin nó Delaunay, a fictional character
- Anafiel Delaunay, a fictional spymaster and poet
- Phèdre nó Delaunay, a fictional character
Other
- Delaunay-BellevilleDelaunay-BellevilleAutomobiles Delaunay-Belleville was a French luxury automobile manufacturer from Saint-Denis, France, north of Paris. At the beginning of the 20th century they were among the most prestigious cars produced in the world, and perhaps the most desirable French marque.Julien Belleville had been a maker...
, a French luxury automobile - Delaunay (crater)Delaunay (crater)Delaunay is a lunar crater. The craters La Caille to the southwest and Faye to the northeast border on the outer rim of Delaunay. Further to the northwest is the prominent Arzachel....
, a lunar crater - Delaunay triangulationDelaunay triangulationIn mathematics and computational geometry, a Delaunay triangulation for a set P of points in a plane is a triangulation DT such that no point in P is inside the circumcircle of any triangle in DT. Delaunay triangulations maximize the minimum angle of all the angles of the triangles in the...
, a way to divide a plane into triangles