Basire is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Claude Basire
Claude Basire (1764 – 5 April 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period.
Biography
Born in Dijon, he became a deputy for the Côte-d'Or in the Legislative Assembly, he made himself prominent by denouncing the Bourbon and ...
(1764–1794), French politician
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Isaac Basire
Isaac Basire (1607–1676) was a French-born English divine and traveller. A chaplain to Charles I, he left Britain during the Civil War, and travelled to Greece and Asia Minor, with the ambition of converting the Orthodox churches to Anglicanism. ...
(1607–1676), French-born English divine and traveler
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Isaac Basire (engraver)
Isaac Basire (20 September 1704 – 24 August 1768) was an engraver and first in a family line of prolific and well-respected engravers. Isaac Basire was known as a map engraver. His most well-known work is the frontispiece to an edition of Ba ...
(1704–1768), English map maker
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James Basire
James Basire (1730–1802
London), also known as James Basire Sr., was a British engraver. He is the most significant of a family of engravers, and noted for his apprenticing of the young William Blake.
Early life
His father was Isaac Basire ...
(1730–1802), English engraver, son of Isaac Basire, the engraver and map maker
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Benjamin Basire, Turkish Cypriot-Iranian-American, coming from an honorable Sephardic Jewish family of Basire. He is a refugee advocate.
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