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Surname

* Arsène Auguste (born 1951), Haitian footballer * Donna Auguste (born 1958), African-American businesswoman * Georges Auguste (born 1933), Haitian painter *
Henri Auguste Henri Auguste (1759–1816) was a leading Parisian gold- and silversmith, working in the neoclassical style. In cooperation with the sculptor Jean Guillaume Moitte, who provided him with designs and models, he became one of the leading desig ...
(1759–1816), Parisian gold and silversmith * Joyce Auguste, Saint Lucian musician * Jules Robert Auguste (1789–1850), French painter * Tancrède Auguste (1856–1913), President of Haiti (1912–13)


Given name

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Auguste, Baron Lambermont François Auguste, Baron Lambermont (25 March 1819 in Dion-le-Val, Brabant7 March 1905), was a Belgian statesman. He came of a family of small farmer proprietors, who had held land during three centuries. He was intended for the priesthood and e ...
(1819–1905), Belgian statesman *
Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (9 December 1810 – 28 March 1835) was the first prince consort of Maria II of Portugal. Besides being the 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg and 2nd Prince of Eichstätt, he also h ...
(1810–1835), prince consort of Maria II of Portugal *
Auguste, comte de La Ferronays Pierre Louis Auguste Ferron, Count de La Ferronnays (1777–1842) was French Minister of Foreign Affairs from 4 January 1828 to 24 April 1829. Life Born in Saint-Malo a few years after Chateaubriand, as he had himself participated in the campaign ...
(1777–1842), French Minister of Foreign Affairs * Auguste Clot (1858–1936), French art printer * Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics * Georges
Auguste Escoffier Georges Auguste Escoffier (; 28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Marie-An ...
(1846–1935), French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer * Auguste Metz (1812–1854), Luxembourgian entrepreneur *
Auguste Léopold Protet Auguste Léopold Protet (; 1808 – 1862) was a French Navy admiral. He founded Dakar, fought in the Second Opium War, and was killed in the Taiping Rebellion at the Fengxian District of Shanghai on the afternoon of 17 May 1862. He was born at S ...
(1808–1862), French Navy admiral *
Auguste Piccard Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Piccard was also known for his ...
(1884–1962), Swiss physicist, inventor, and explorer * Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), French sculptor * Auguste Schepp (1846-1905), German painter * Auguste Tessier (1853–1938), Quebec lawyer and political figure *
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste wh ...
(1838–1889), French symbolist writer * Auguste von Müller (1849–1912), German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress *
Duchess Auguste of Württemberg , title = , reign =17 March 1773 – 1776 , image = Augusta di Wurtt.jpg , caption = , coronation = , succession = Princess consort of Thurn and Taxis , spouse = Karl Anselm, 4th Prince of T ...
(1734–1787), wife of Karl Anselm, Prince of Thurn and Taxis * Catherine the Great birth name was Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste


Fiction

* ''Auguste'' (film), a 1961 French comedy film directed by Pierre Chevalier * Auguste, the deceased Crown Prince of Vere in the ''Captive Prince'' novels by C. S. Pacat * Auguste, a knight in the fantasy manga series '' Majo no Shinzō'' * Auguste Beau, the antagonist of the manga series ''
Kaze to Ki no Uta is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Takemiya. It was serialized in the manga magazine '' Shūkan Shōjo Comic'' from 1976 to 1980, and in the manga magazine '' Petit Flower'' from 1981 to 1984. One of the earliest ...
'' * Auguste de Montesse, the father of the protagonist of the manga series '' Claudine''


Ships

* ''Auguste'' (ship), which struck Cape Breton Island, Canada in 1761 * French ship ''Auguste'', a ship of the French Navy, launched in 1778 * HMS ''Auguste'' (1705), a 54-gun French ship captured by the British in 1705


Other uses

* Auguste (restaurant), a Michelin starred restaurant in Maarssen, Netherlands * Auguste clown, a type of clown *
Auguste Island Auguste Island is a flat-topped island less than long, lying northeast of Two Hummock Island in Gerlache Strait. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–99) under Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache Baron Adrien Victo ...
, an Antarctic island in Gerlache Strait {{Disambiguation, given name, surname, ship French masculine given names German feminine given names French-language surnames