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Grenier is a surname. It is a French word for ''attic, loft,'' or ''granary''. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrian Grenier * Angèle Grenier, Canadian maple syrup producer * Auguste Jean François Grenier (1814–1890), French doctor and entomologist * Clément Grenier * Eustace Grenier * Hugo Grenier, French tennis player * Jacques de Grenier (1736–1803), French Navy officer * Jean Charles Marie Grenier (1808–1875), French botanist and naturalist * John Grenier * Louis Grenier, fictional character * Martin Grenier * Philippe Grenier * Richard Grenier (other) * Robert Grenier (CIA), CIA officer * Robert Grenier (poet) * Roger Grenier * Suzanne Blais-Grenier * Sylvain Grenier * Walter I Grenier, Lord of Caesarea * Zach Grenier {{surname, Grenier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Grenier
Adrian Sean Grenier (born July 10, 1976) is an American actor, producer, director and musician. He is best known for his portrayal of Vincent Chase in the television series ''Entourage (American TV series), Entourage'' (2004–2011). He has appeared in films such as ''Drive Me Crazy'' (1999), ''The Devil Wears Prada (film), The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006), ''Trash Fire'' (2016) and ''Marauders (2016 film), Marauders'' (2016). He recently acted in the Netflix series ''Clickbait (miniseries), Clickbait'' (2021). Early life Grenier was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the son of Karesse Grenier and John Dunbar. His parents were never married. He was raised by his mother in New York City. His mother was born in New Mexico to a family of mostly Mexican, Spanish, and some French descent. A DNA test on a 2012 episode of the series ''Finding Your Roots'' showed Grenier to have approximately 8% Native American ancestry and that his direct matrilineal line is Native Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Grenier
Martin Grenier (born November 2, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Phoenix Coyotes, Vancouver Canucks, and Philadelphia Flyers. Playing career As a youth, Grenier played in the 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Sélects-du-Nord minor ice hockey team. Drafted by the Colorado Avalanche 45th overall in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, Grenier was traded to the Boston Bruins along with Brian Rolston, Samuel Pahlsson and a 2000 1st round draft pick for Ray Bourque and Dave Andreychuk on March 6, 2000. Left unsigned by Boston, Grenier signed with the Phoenix Coyotes prior to the 2001–02 season. Since beginning his pro career, he has spent most of his time in the AHL with a few callups to the NHL with the Coyotes, Vancouver Canucks, and Philadelphia Flyers The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. The Flyers compete in the National Hock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Grenier
Sylvain Grenier (born March 26, 1977) is a Canadian TV host and semi-retired professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE as a producer since 2020. He is best known for his time wrestling for WWE between 2002 and 2007 where he was part of La Résistance and became a four-time World Tag Team Champion (once with René Duprée and three times with Rob Conway). After his release from WWE, Grenier became a French language commentator for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) '' Impact!'' for a number of years and continued to wrestle on the Quebec independent circuit. Early life As a child, Grenier lived with his Parents in Varennes, Quebec. Grenier played baseball, tennis and hockey at an amateur level. Grenier worked as a model. Professional wrestling career Grenier made his professional wrestling debut in 1998. World Wrestling Entertainment Early appearances (2001–2003) Grenier auditioned for series one and two of '' Tough Enough'', the reality television program produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Blais-Grenier
Suzanne Blais-Grenier (March 2, 1936 – June 13, 2017) was a Canadian politician. Blais-Grenier was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian Mulroney to power. She represented the riding of Rosemont, Quebec. She was appointed to the Cabinet as Prime Minister Mulroney's first Minister of the Environment. She faced mounting criticism from environmentalists following cuts to various programs, her lackluster performance over several months when being targeted by the Opposition in the House of Commons during question period and her spending on foreign travel. Blais-Grenier was demoted in 1985 to the position of Minister of State for Transport. Following the demotion, Blais-Grenier became increasingly critical of the Mulroney government. At the end of 1985, she resigned from Cabinet to protest the government's refusal to prevent the closure of an oil refinery in Montreal. On September 20, 1988, she was expelled from the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Grenier
Roger Grenier (19 September 1919 – 8 November 2017) was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique. Biography As a youth, Grenier lived in Pau, where Andrélie opened a shop selling glasses. During the Second World War, he attended classes taught by Gaston Bachelard at the Sorbonne while participating in the French Resistance before actively participating in the 1944 liberation of Paris. In his memoir ''Paris ma grand'ville'', Grenier describes being briefly arrested and narrowly avoiding execution by the Occupation forces on the boulevard Saint-Germain. He was only able to escape after an argument in German broke out among his captors. After the Liberation of Paris, he joined Albert Camus at the newspaper ''Combat''. Grenier later went on to write for the newspaper ''France Soir''. As a journalist, he followed post-war trials which inspired his first essay in 1949 ''Le Rôle d'accusé''. He left professional journalism i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grenier (poet)
Robert Grenier (born August 4, 1941, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a contemporary United States poetry, American poet associated with the Language poets, Language School. He was founding co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of the influential magazine ''This (magazine), This'' (1971–1974). ''This'' was a watershed moment in the history of recent American poetry, providing one of the first gatherings in print of various writers, artists, and poets now identified (or loosely referred to) as the Language poets. He is the co-editor of ''The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, Volumes 1-4'' published by Stanford University Press in 2010, and was the editor of Robert Creeley's ''Selected Poems'', published in 1976. Grenier's early work, influenced by Creeley, is noted for its minimalism. Grenier's recent work, however, is as much visual as verbal, involving multicolor "drawn" poems in special (and not always reproducible) formats. Life and work Robert Grenier is a graduate of Harvard Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grenier (CIA)
Robert L. Grenier is a career Central Intelligence Agency officer who served as the agency’s top counter-terrorism official from 2004 to 2006. Career Grenier joined the CIA in January 1979 and worked field assignments in North Africa, Middle East and Western Europe till 1991. Grenier was station chief in Algiers, Algeria in 1990. He served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tarnoff (1993–94) and first Chief of Operations, Counter-Proliferation Division (1994–96). From 1996 to 1999, Grenier was Director of Operational Training at Camp Peary, Virginia. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq In 2001, Grenier was the CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he helped plan covert operations in support of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. In the summer of 2002 he was promoted to the chief of the Iraq Issues Group, where he helped coordinate covert operations in support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Grenier served as Director, CIA's Counte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Grenier (other) (1926–2002), American columnist and film critic
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Richard Grenier may refer to: * Richard Grenier (ice hockey) (born 1952), Canadian ice hockey player * Richard Grenier (newspaper columnist) Richard Grenier (December 30, 1933 – January 29, 2002) was a neoconservative cultural columnist for ''The Washington Times'' and a film critic for ''Commentary (magazine), Commentary'' and ''The New York Times''. The ''Forbes Media Guide Five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Grenier
Philippe Grenier (; 14 August 1865 – 25 March 1944) was a French politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Doubs from 1896 to 1898. He became a convert to Islam during a trip to French Algeria in 1894 and later the first Muslim member of the French Parliament in history. Career Grenier studied in Besançon and Paris. A doctor by occupation in his home town of Pontarlier Pontarlier ( ; Latin: ''Ariolica'') is a commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France near the Swiss border. History Pontarlier occupies the ancient Roman station o ..., he became a municipal councillor by campaigning on public health issues and public assistance. He was later elected to the French Parliament with 51% of the vote in the second round in 1896; in the Chamber of Deputies he was registered as a member of the Radical Left. Mainly because of his support for regulatory laws on alcohol, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Grenier
Louis Grenier is a fictional character in William Faulkner's novels and stories. Grenier (died 1837), a French Huguenot architect and dilettante came, around 1800, with Dr. Samuel Habersham and Alexander Holston to the settlement which would later become Jefferson. Grenier was a student at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. He bought land in the southeastern part of Yoknapatawpha County and established the first cotton plantation and had the first slaves in that part of the state. His slaves straightened a nearly ten-mile stretch of the Yoknapatawpha River to prevent flooding A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrolog ..., according to ''The Hamlet''. His house later became known as the Old Frenchman's Place, and the small settlement as Frenchman's Bend. His last living descendan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angèle Grenier
Angèle Grenier is a Canadian maple syrup producer from Quebec who attracted international media attention for her legal battles against the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (FPAQ). After breaking FPAQ regulations for the sale of her product, choosing to directly export her syrup to New Brunswick, she was threatened with fines and jail time, but refused to stop her actions. Grenier took her case to the Quebec Court of Appeal and finally the Supreme Court of Canada, but was ultimately unsuccessful. Industry background Quebec has approximately 7000 maple syrup producers, and the provincial industry supplies at least 70% of the world's maple syrup, worth over CA$600 million. The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (FPAQ) exerts control over virtually all aspects of the maple syrup industry in Quebec, backed by government legislation. FPAQ assigns limits on the amount of syrup producers can produce and sell directly to outside buyers, and uses its power as a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grenier
John Edward Grenier (August 24, 1930 – November 6, 2007) was a figure in the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. Grenier is one of the figures credited with using the Southern Strategy in that campaign and one of the figures responsible for the rise of the Republican Party in Alabama. Grenier ran for the United States Senate in 1966 against John Sparkman. Grenier only won 39 percent of the vote but it was the highest percentage of the vote that anybody had won against Sparkman in Sparkman's Senate career. Grenier was also involved in campaign of Alabama Republican Guy Hunt Harold Guy Hunt (June 17, 1933 – January 30, 2009) was an American politician, pastor, and convicted felon who served as the 49th governor of Alabama from 1987 to 1993. He was the first Republican to serve as governor of the state since Rec ... and the controversies which followed Hunt during his term in office. Grenier also worked as a litigator for Lange Simpson Robinson and Somerville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
