Pierre
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Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter (it can also be a surname and a place name). Pierre originally means "rock" or "stone" in French
(derived from the Greek word "petros" meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). See also Peter.
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(derived from the Greek word "petros" meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). See also Peter.
Persons with the given name
- Pierre-Joseph ProudhonPierre-Joseph ProudhonPierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an "anarchist". He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism...
, the first self-proclaimed anarchist and is regarded by some as the founder of modern anarchist theory - Pierre BézierPierre BézierPierre Étienne Bézier was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modeling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in CAD/CAM systems...
, an engineer and mathematician known for his work with Bézier curves - Pierre BezukhovPierre BezukhovCount Pyotr "Pierre" Kirillovich Bezukhov is a central fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. He is the favourite of several illegitimate sons of the wealthy nobleman Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov.-Description:...
, a major character in Tolstoy's War and Peace - Pierre BoulezPierre BoulezPierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
, a French classical and electronic composer - Pierre BourgaultPierre BourgaultPierre Bourgault was a French Canadian politician and essayist of Breton origin, as well as an actor and journalist from Quebec, Canada. He is most famous as a public speaker who advocated sovereignty for Quebec from Canada.- Profile :Bourgault was born in East Angus in the Estrie region of Quebec...
, a public speaker, journalist and politician famed for his work for Quebec Independence from Canada - Pierre BouvierPierre BouvierPierre Charles Bouvier is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the lead singer for pop punk band Simple Plan.At the age of 13, he founded the punk rock band Reset with his best friend Chuck Comeau in which he was the bassist and lead vocalist. He eventually wasn't enjoying his role...
, a lead singer for Simple Plan - Pierre Caille (disambiguation)
- Pierre CapretzPierre CapretzPierre Jean Capretz is an educator and writer, noted for his audio-visual methods for teaching French. A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida and joined the faculty of Yale University in 1956, eventually becoming Director of the...
, a host of French in Action - Pierre CardinPierre CardinPierre Cardin Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical...
, a French fashion designer - Pierre ChambrinPierre ChambrinPierre Chambrin was the White House Executive Chef from 1992 to 1994.-Early life and career:Chambrin was born in Paris on Sept. 13, 1947. He received his culinary education at the Ecole des Metiers de l"alimentation, which he attended from 1961 to 1963. He moved to the United States in 1969 and...
, a White House Executive Chef - Pierre ClostermannPierre ClostermannPierre Clostermann was a French flying ace, author, engineer, politician and sporting fisherman. Over his flying career he was awarded the Grand-Croix of the French Légion d'Honneur, French Croix de Guerre, British DFC and bar, Distinguished Service Cross , Silver Star , and the Air Medal .-Early...
, a French pilot who fought in World War II for the RAF - Pierre CorréiaPierre CorréiaPierre Corréia is a French rugby union player. Corréia, who is a loosehead prop, plays for Albi in the Top 14. His only game for France was against Australia on 5 July 2008....
, a French rugby union player - Pierre CuriePierre CuriePierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. He was the son of Dr. Eugène Curie and Sophie-Claire Depouilly Curie ...
, a French physicist and husband of Marie Curie - Pierre de MaricourtPeter of MaricourtPierre Pelerin de Maricourt , Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt or Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt; was a 13th century French scholar who conducted experiments on magnetism and wrote the first extant treatise describing the properties of magnets...
(13th century), a writer on magnetism and astrolabes - Pierre Escargot, a French teacher from All That (Kenan Thompson)
- Pierre de FermatPierre de FermatPierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his adequality...
, a French lawyer and mathematician - Pierre Fourier, a Catholic saint and French priest
- Pierre GarçonPierre GarconPierre Garçon is an American football wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Colts in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio. Garcon is of Haitian descent.- High school career...
, a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts - Pierre GemayelPierre GemayelSheikh Pierre Gemayel , was a Lebanese political leader...
, a politician, founder of Al-Kataeb party in Lebanon - Pierre GagnairePierre GagnairePierre Gagnaire is a well known French chef, and is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris . Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef at the forefront of the fusion cuisine movement. Beginning his career in St...
, a French chef - Pierre HarmelPierre HarmelPierre Charles José Marie Harmel, from 1991 Count Harmel was a Belgian lawyer, Christian Democratic politician and diplomat...
(1911–2009), a former Belgian Prime Minister - Pierre HenryPierre HenryPierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.-Biography:...
, a French musician - Pierre HermansPierre HermansLambertus Maria Petrus Hermans is a former field hockey goalkeeper from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch National Men's Team that finished sixth in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Hermans earned a total number of 86 caps, in the years 1977-1984...
, a Dutch field hockey goalkeeper - Pierre van HooijdonkPierre van HooijdonkPetrus Ferdinandus Johannes "Pierre" van Hooijdonk is a retired Dutch football player who played as a striker. His last spell was at Feyenoord Rotterdam. Van Hooijdonk was capped 46 times for the Dutch national team, scoring 21 goals, and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000 and Euro 2004...
, a Dutch footballer - Pierre JeanpierrePierre JeanpierrePierre Paul Jeanpierre was a French Army officer. He fought during World War II, the First Indochina War, the Suez Crisis and the Algerian War, where he was killed in action...
, a French soldier - Pierre Levasseur (disambiguation)
- Pierre MorelPierre Morel-Movie career:After spending his formative years in cinema school, Pierre Morel debuted in 2000 as camera operator with the first Richard Berry's film L'Art de la séduction....
, French film director - Pierre PilotePierre PiloteJoseph Albert Pierre Paul Pilote is a former professional ice hockey defenceman. After playing junior hockey for the St. Catharines Teepees in the Ontario Hockey Association, Pilote played minor professional hockey for the Buffalo Bisons in the American Hockey League. Pilote played 890 games in...
, ice hockey player - Pierre PoilievrePierre PoilievrePierre Poilievre, MP is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Canadian House of Commons representing the suburban Ottawa riding of Nepean-Carleton. First elected in 2004, Poilievre was re-elected in 2006 and 2008. Poilievre received the second highest vote total of any...
, Canadian federal MP for the riding of Nepean-Carleton - Pierre Roger (swimmer)Pierre Roger (swimmer)Pierre Roger is a backstroke swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the men's individual 100 metres backstroke event at the 2002 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:* *...
, French swimmer - Pierre SalingerPierre SalingerPierre Emil George Salinger was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...
, Press Secretary to US President John F. Kennedy - Pierre SchaefferPierre SchaefferPierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...
, a French experimental musician - Pierre Shammassian, a Lebanese-Armenian comedian
- Pierre TakiPierre Takiwas the front man for Japanese technopop group Denki Groove, which consisted of himself and Takkyū Ishino. As of 2001 he was involved in an exhibit called Prince Tongha with Hideyuki Tanaka in New York City.-References:...
, a Japanese musician - Pierre ThomasPierre ThomasPierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé was a French scholar and author, and was the son of a master of accounts at Rouen. He was sent as a child to be educated to the Jansenists at Port-Royal des Champs. There he received his bent towards the life of a recluse, and even of a hermit, which drew him to...
, a Running Back - Pierre TrudeauPierre TrudeauJoseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, , usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals,...
, a former Canadian Prime Minister - Pierre TurgeonPierre TurgeonPierre Turgeon is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche...
, a Québécois NHL Hall of Famer - Abbé PierreAbbé PierreLAbbé Pierre, was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement . He founded in 1949 the Emmaus movement, which has the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees...
, a French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement - Pierre de CoubertinPierre de CoubertinPierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French educationalist and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games...
, a founder of the modern Olympic Games - Pierre van MalderePierre van MalderePieter van Maldere was a violinist and composer from the Southern Low Countries .-Life:...
, a South-Netherlandish composer - Monsieur PierreMonsieur PierreMonsieur Pierre, or simply Pierre, was the professional name of Pierre Jean Phillipe Zurcher-Margolle, . Pierre was a professional dancer and dance teacher: he was primarily responsible for introducing the Latin American dances to England, and for codifying them, and laying the groundwork for their...
, a ballroom dancer - Pierre LewisPierre LewisPierre Lewis , is a British singer-songwriter-Early life:Born Pierre Lewis in Berkshire, Lewis left military college Pangbourne College following his GCSE exams to spend time working on his music in London and Orlando Florida, recording his debut album release Mindset.-Music career:Lewis is...
, a British singer-songwriter
Surname
- DBC Pierre, (penname) a Mexican writer
- Jean Baptiste Louis PierreJean Baptiste Louis PierreJean Baptiste Louis Pierre , also known as J. B. Louis Pierre, was a French botanist known for his Asian studies....
, a French botanist - Juan PierreJuan PierreJuan D'Vaughn Pierre is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who is currently a free agent. He bats and throws left-handed....
, a MLB outfielder - Raymond PierreRaymond PierreRaymond Pierre is a former American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprinting events during his career. He is best known for winning the men's 400-meter dash event at the 1987 Pan American Games....
, an American track and field athlete - Robert Pierre, a Christian recording artist
- Roger PierreRoger PierreRoger Pierre was a French comedic actor.He often appeared in comedies with Jean-Marc Thibault.Pierre died in his native Paris, aged 86, from cancer.-Career:...
(1923–2010), a French actor
Other
- Pierre, a Chrono Cross playable character
- Carl OuelletCarl OuelletCarl Joseph Yvon Ouellet is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. He has worked for, among other promotions, the World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.-Beginnings:Carl Ouellet debuted in 1987...
, Canadian professional wrestler - his ring names included Pierre
See also
- Lucky Pierre (disambiguation)
- Saint-Pierre (disambiguation)
- Jean-Pierre (given name)
- Pierre-SimonPierre-SimonPierre-Simon is a French masculine given name, and may refer to:* Pierre-Simon Ballanche , French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher* Pierre-Simon Laplace , French mathematician and astronomer...