Faure is an Occitan family name meaning

blacksmith A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, gr ...

, from Latin ''faber''. It is pronounced differently from the accented surname Fauré, as in Gabriel Fauré, French composer and organist.

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* Dominique Faure (born 1959), French politician *

Edgar Faure Edgar Jean Faure (; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.Félix Faure Félix François Faure (; 30 January 1841 – 16 February 1899) was the President of France from 1895 until his death in 1899. A native of Paris, he worked as a tanner in his younger years. Faure became a member of the Chamber of Deputies for ...

, 19th-century French president * Fernand Faure (1853–1929), French economist and politician * Jacques Faure (ambassador), French co-chair of the

OSCE Minsk Group The OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992 by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), now Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), to encourage a peaceful, negotiated resolution to the conflict between Az ...

Martine Faure Martine Faure (born 30 September 1948) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Gironde department, as a member of the Socialist Party. She was the deputy for Gironde's 9th constituency from 2007 to 2012 and, aft ...

, French politician * Maurice Faure,

French Resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

leader and politician, and the last surviving signatory of the Treaty of Rome *

Sébastien Faure Sébastien Faure (6 January 1858 – 14 July 1942) was a French anarchist, freethought and secularist activist and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism. Biography Before becoming a free-thinker, Faure was a seminarist. He engage ...

, French anarchist *

Faure Gnassingbé Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé Eyadéma (; born 6 June 1966"Biographie de nouve ...

, president of Togo

Writers, artists, and musicians

Élie Faure Jacques Élie Faure (April 4, 1873 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France – October 29, 1937 in Paris) was a French doctor, art historian and essayist. He is the author of ''History of Art,'' considered a historiographical pillar in the discipline. ...

, French art historian and essayist * Gabriel Faure (1877-1962), French poet, novelist and essayist * Gabriel Fauré, French composer * Jean-Baptiste Faure, French baritone and composer *

Lucie Faure Lucie Faure, ''née'' Meyer (6 July 1908 – 25 September 1977) was a French woman of letters, novelist and literary review director. Early life The daughter of a merchant of fabrics of Alsatian origin, she was the niece, on the maternal sid ...

, French writer * Renée Faure, French actress

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Abraham Faure Abraham Faure (29 August 1795 – 28 March 1875) was a clergyman and author from Cape Colony, part of what later became South Africa. Church career Born in Stellenbosch, Faure was educated in both England and the Netherlands and, with a ...

(1795-1875), South African clergyman *

Camille Alphonse Faure Camille Alphonse Faure (21 May 1840 – 14 September 1898) was a French chemical engineer who in 1881 significantly improved the design of the lead-acid battery, which had been invented by Gaston Planté in 1859. Faure's improvements greatly ...

, French chemical engineer *

Gunter Faure Gunter Faure is a geochemist who currently holds the position of Professor Emeritus in the School of Earth Science of Ohio State University. He obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of ...

, American geochemist * Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier * Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of the

French military mission to Japan (1918–19) French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

Keith Faure Keith George Faure (born June, 1951), from Norlane, Victoria, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters. He is currently serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for his rol ...

, Australian career criminal *

Luigi Faure Luigi Faure (1901 in Sauze d'Oulx – September 5, 1974) was an Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known ...

(1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper *

Sébastien Faure (footballer) Sébastien Faure (, born 3 January 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Championnat National 2 club GOAL FC. He is a former France youth international, and has represented his nation at various age levels. Clu ...

, French footballer

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