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- Baron LisleBaron LisleBaron Lisle was a title that was created five times in the Peerage of England during the Middle Ages and Tudor period. The most recent creation came in the Peerage of Ireland in 1758, when John Lysaght was made Baron Lisle, of Mountnorth in the County of Cork. He had previously represented...
, any one of a number of Englishmen who held this title - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de LisleCharles-Marie-René Leconte de LisleCharles Marie René Leconte de Lisle was a French poet of the Parnassian movement.-Life:Leconte de Lisle was born on the island of Réunion. His father, an army surgeon, who brought him up with great severity, sent him to travel in the East Indies with a view to preparing him for a commercial life...
(1818–1894), French poet of the Parnassian movement - Claude Joseph Rouget de LisleClaude Joseph Rouget de LisleClaude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , was a French Army officer of the Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin in 1792, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem.- Biography :Rouget de Lisle was...
(1760–1836), composer who in 1792 wrote La Marseillaise, the French national anthem - Claude Delisle, French cartographer and royal censor
- Esther DelisleEsther DelisleEsther Delisle Ph.D. is a French Canadian historian and author of historical works from Quebec.Born and raised in Quebec City, she completed her BA and MA in political science at Université Laval in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, and taught political theory at a Quebec CEGEP and worked as a researcher for...
(born 1954), Quebec historian - Grey DeLisleGrey DeLisleGrey DeLisle is an American voice actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. To date, she has released four solo albums and has featured on the tribute album Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash and film soundtrack of Loggerheads...
(born 1973), U.S. singer & voice actress - Guillaume DelisleGuillaume DelisleGuillaume Delisle was a French cartographer who lived in Paris.His father, Claude Delisle studied law and then later settled in Paris as private teacher in geography and history, and afterwards filled the office of royal censor...
(1675–1726), French cartographer - Guy DelisleGuy DelisleGuy Delisle is a comic book author from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal...
(born 1966), Canadian comic book author - Joseph-Nicolas DelisleJoseph-Nicolas DelisleJoseph-Nicolas Delisle was a French astronomer.-Life:He was one of the 11 sons of Claude Delisle . Like many of his brothers, among them Guillaume Delisle, he initially followed classical studies. Soon however, he moved to astronomy under the supervision of Joseph Lieutaud and Jacques Cassini...
(1688–1768), French astronomer - Léopold Victor DelisleLéopold Victor DelisleLéopold Victor Delisle , French bibliophile and historian, was born at Valognes .-Early life:He was taken on as a young man by the antiquarian and historian of architecture, Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville, who engaged him to copy manuscripts in his collection, and taught him enough...
(1826–1910), French historian
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- Delisle, SaskatchewanDelisle, Saskatchewan-References:...
- Mons DelisleMons DelisleMons Delisle is a mountain on the Moon located on the edge of Mare Imbrium near the crater Delisle. It is elongated in shape and is about 30 km in diameter. The mountain was adopted and named after the nearby crater of the same name by the IAU in 1985....
, a mountain on the moon - Delisle (crater)Delisle (crater)Delisle is a small lunar crater in the western part of the Mare Imbrium. It lies to the north of the crater Diophantus, and just to the northwest of the ridge designated Mons Delisle. Between Delisle and Diophantus is a sinuous rille named Rima Diophantus, with a diameter of 150 km...
, a lunar crater - Delisle scaleDelisle scaleThe Delisle scale is a temperature scale invented in 1732 by the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle . Delisle was the author of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et aux progrès de l'Astronomie, de la Géographie et de la Physique .He had been invited to Russia by Peter the Great...
, a temperature scale - De Lisle carbineDe Lisle carbineThe De Lisle carbine or De Lisle Commando carbine was a British carbine used during World War II. The primary feature of the De Lisle was its very effective suppressor...
, a World War 2, silent rifle - De Lisle Catholic Science CollegeDe Lisle Catholic Science CollegeDe Lisle Catholic Science College, formerly De Lisle Roman Catholic Comprehensive School and sometimes called De Lisle School, is a co-educational comprehensive school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. At the time of its 2000 Ofsted inspection it had 1,223 pupils including 160 in the sixth...
, school in Leicestershire