Fernand is a masculine

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of French origin. The feminine form is Fernande. Fernand may refer to:

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* Fernand Augereau (1882–1958), French cyclist *

Fernand Auwera Ferdinand Van der Auwera (26 November 1929, in Antwerp – 27 October 2015), pseudonym Fernand Auwera is a Belgian writer. His fragile health during his youth and its impact on his life (solitude), had an effect on his first literary work. Life ...

(1929–2015), Belgian writer *

Fernand Baldet Fernand Baldet (16 March 1885 – 8 November 1964) was a French astronomer. He worked with Count Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel observing Mars from the newly built observatory on Pic du Midi in 1909. The resulting photographs, taken with the 0 ...

(1885–1964), French astronomer *

Fernand Berckelaers Fernand Berckelaers (10 March 1901, in Borgerhout – 12 February 1999, in Paris), pseudonym Michel Seuphor (anagram of Orpheus), was a Belgian painter. Seuphor established a literary magazine, ''Het Overzicht'', in Antwerp in 1921. He moved in ...

(1901– 1999), Belgian artist * Fernand Besnier (1894–1977), French cyclist *

Fernand Boden Fernand Boden (born 13 September 1943) is a politician from Luxembourg. He was a minister in the government of Luxembourg from 1979

(born 1943), Luxembourg politician * Fernand Bouisson (1874–1959), French politician *

Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...

(1902–1985), French historian * Fernand Brouez (1861–1900), Belgian publisher *

Fernand Buyle Fernand Auguste Charles Buyle was a Belgian footballer, born on 3 March 1918 in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, date of death 22 January 1992. He was a striker for Daring Club de Bruxelles from the 1934–1953 seasons and played sixteen times for Belgi ...

(1918–1992), Belgian footballer *

Fernand Canelle Fernand Émile Canelle (2 January 1882 – 11 September 1951) was a French footballer. He was born in Paris and after training with English club Norwood and Selhurst FC, started his career in 1896 with Club Français Club Français was a ...

(1882–1951), French footballer *

Fernand Charpin Fernand Charpin (30 May 1887 – 6 November 1944) was a French actor. He is known for his role as Honoré Panisse in Marcel Pagnol's Marseille trilogy, beginning with '' Marius'' in 1931. Selected filmography * '' Marius'' (1931) * '' Fanny'' ( ...

(1887–1944), French actor *

Fernand Collin Fernand Collin ( Antwerp, 18 December 1897 – 11 December 1990), was a Belgian businessman. He was president of the Kredietbank from 1938 to 1973 and was also a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. At the start of World War II, Fernand ...

(1897–1990), Belgian businessman *

Fernand Cormon Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. Biograph ...

(1845–1924), French painter *

Fernand Crommelynck Fernand Crommelynck (19 November 1886 – 17 March 1970) was a Belgian dramatist. His work is known for farces in which commonplace weaknesses are developed into monumental obsessions. Biography He was born into a family of actors, the child ...

(1886–1970), Belgian dramatist *

Fernand David Fernand David (18 October 1869, Annemasse, Haute-Savoie Haute-Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè d'Amont'' or ''Hiôta-Savouè''; en, Upper Savoy) or '; it, Alta Savoia. is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, b ...

(1869–1935), French Minister of Agriculture *

Fernand Decanali Fernand Decanali (7 July 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a French cyclist. He was born in Marseille. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with Pierre Adam, Charles Coste and Serge Blusson ...

(1925–2017), French cyclist *

Fernand Dubé Fernand G. Dubé (December 29, 1928 – October 5, 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician in the Province of New Brunswick. He graduated from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa and obtained a law degree from the University of New Brunswi ...

(1928–1999), Canadian politician *

Fernand de Brinon Fernand de Brinon, Marquis de Brinon (; 26 August 1885 – 15 April 1947) was a French lawyer and journalist who was one of the architects of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. He claimed to have had five private talks with ...

(1885–1947), French Nazi collaborationist *

Fernand de Langle de Cary Fernand Louis Armand Marie de Langle de Cary (4 July 1849 – 19 February 1927) was a French general during World War I. He commanded Fourth Army when the war began. Early life Fernand Louis Armand Marie De Langle De Cary (1849-1927) was bor ...

(1849–1927), French general *

Fernand Fédronic Fernand Fédronic (born 21 December 1964) is a French former competitive figure skater. He is the 1982 Grand Prix International St. Gervais champion, 1984 Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist, and 1985 1985 French national champion. He placed ...

(born 1964), French figure skater *

Fernand Fonssagrives Fernand Fonssagrives (June 8, 1910 – April 23, 2003), born Fernand Vigoureux near Paris, was a photographer known for his 'beauty photography' in the early 1940s, and as the first husband of the model Lisa Fonssagrives. He died in 2003 at Little ...

(1910–2003), French photographer *

Fernand Gambiez Fernand Gambiez (27 February 1903 – 29 March 1989) was a French Army general and military historian who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. During the Algerian War, Gambiez was commander-in-chief of the French A ...

(1903–1989), French general *

Fernand Gignac Fernand Gignac (March 23, 1934 – August 18, 2006) was a French Canadian singer and actor. Beside his music career under the label Fleur-de-Lis, Gignac also starred in several television series (including '' Symphorien'', 1968). Gignac died on F ...

(1934–2006), Canadian singer *

Fernand Gonder Fernand Gonder (12 June 1883 – 10 March 1969) was a French pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games and finished 15th at the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), official ...

(1883–1969), French pole vaulter *

Fernand Goux Fernand Goux (31 December 1899 – 9 November 2008) was, at age 108, the penultimate French World War I veteran, with Pierre Picault being the last. "On a retrouvé un soldat de 1918 vivant". ''Ouest-France'' (19 June 2008). Born in Sceaux-du-G ...

(1899–2008), at age 108, French World War I veteran *

Fernand Goyvaerts Fernand Goyvaerts (24 October 1938 – 5 April 2004) was a Belgian international footballer. He played as an attacker. Club career He made his début for the first team of Club Brugge at the age of 16. In 1958, his penalty kick against CS Ver ...

(1938–2004), Belgian footballer *

Fernand Gravey Fernand Gravey (25 December 1905 in Ixelles (Belgium) – 2 November 1970 in Paris, France),Death certificate # 8/445/1970 also known as Fernand Gravet in the United States, was the son of actors Georges Mertens and Fernande Depernay, who ap ...

(1905–1970), Belgian-French actor *

Fernand Gregh Fernand Gregh (14 October 1873, Paris – 5 January 1960, Paris) was a French poet and literary critic. He was accepted in the Académie française in 1953. British composer Eva Ruth Spalding Eva Ruth Spalding (December 19, 1883 - March 1969) ...

(1873–1960), French poet and literary critic *

Fernand Guindon Joseph Roméo Fernand Guindon (May 30, 1917 – August 21, 1985) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1957 to 1974 who represented the ridings of Glengarry and ...

(1917–1985), Canadian politician *

Fernand Halphen Fernand Gustave Halphen (18 February 1872 – 16 May 1917) was a French Jewish composer. Life and career Fernand Halphen was the son of Georges Halphen, a diamond merchant, and of Henriette Antonia Stern (1836–1905), who was from the Stern ban ...

(1872–1917), French composer * Fernand Hautain (1858–1942), Belgian businessman * Fernand Jaccard (1907–2008), Swiss footballer *

Fernand Khnopff Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (12 September 1858 – 12 November 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter. Life Youth and training Fernand Khnopff was born to a wealthy family that was part of the high bourgeoisie for generations. Khnopf ...

(1858–1921), Belgian painter *

Fernand Leduc Fernand Leduc (4 July 1916 – 28 January 2014) was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene in the 1940s and 1950s. During his 50-year career, Leduc participated in many expositions in Ca ...

(1916–2014), Canadian painter *

Fernand Legros Fernand Legros (; 26 January 1931 – 7 April 1983) was an art dealer who for over a decade, from the middle 1950s until the late 1960s, sold the forged artworks of Elmyr de Hory, an artist and "the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time" (taken from th ...

(1931–1983), French art dealer *

Fernand Léger Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...

(1881–1955), French artist *

Fernand Melgar Fernand Melgar (born 1961 in Tangier) is a Swiss actor, producer, director and film editor. The son of Spanish immigrants, Melgar has lived in Lausanne since 1963. Melgar's documentary ''The Fortress (french: La forteresse)'' garnered eleven inter ...

(born 1963), Swiss actor *

Fernand Mourlot Fernand Mourlot (; 5 April 1895 – 4 December 1988), son of Jules Mourlot, was the director of Mourlot Studios and founder of Editions Mourlot. Early life and career Fernand Mourlot was born on 5 April 1895 in Paris, France. He was the si ...

(1895–1988), French printer *

Fernand Nault Fernand Nault, OC, CQ (27 December 1920 – 26 December 2006) was a Canadian dancer and choreographer. Early life and career He was born Fernand-Noël Boissonneault in Montreal. After he abandoned his original career intent of becoming a pri ...

(1920–2006), Canadian dancer *

Fernand Ouellet Fernand Ouellet (6 November 1926 in Lac-Bouchette, Quebec – 28 June 2021 in Toronto, Ontario) was a French-Canadian author and educator. He was educated at Université Laval and gained a PhD in 1965. Ouellet taught at Université Laval, Carle ...

(born 1926), Canadian historian * Fernand Paillet (1850–1918), French figurine artist and jewelry designer *

Fernand Pelloutier Fernand-Léonce-Émile Pelloutier (1 October 1867, in Paris – 13 March 1901, in Sèvres) was a French anarchist and syndicalist. He was the leader of the ''Bourses du Travail'', a major French trade union, from 1895 until his death in 1901. H ...

(1867–1901), French anarchist * Fernand Petiot (1900–1975), bartender who invented the Bloody Mary *

Fernand Point Fernand Point (, 25 February 1897 – 4 March 1955) was a French chef and restaurateur and is considered to be the father of modern French cuisine. He founded the restaurant La Pyramide in Vienne near Lyon. Early life He was born in Louhans, ...

(1897–1955), French chef *

Fernand Rinfret Louis-Édouard-Fernand Rinfret (February 28, 1883 – July 12, 1939) was a Canadian politician. Biography He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the Montreal riding of St. James in a 1920 by-election. A Liberal, he was re-ele ...

(1883–1939), Canadian politician *

Fernand Robichaud Fernand Robichaud (born December 2, 1939) is a Canadian politician. He was born in Shippagan, New Brunswick and received a teaching certificate from the Moncton Technical Institute. Before entering politics, Robichaud was a teacher and busine ...

(born 1939), Canadian politician *

Fernand Seguin Fernand Seguin, (June 9, 1922 – June 19, 1988) was a Canadian biochemist, professor and host of science programs on radio and television. Honours * In 1977, he was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. * In 19 ...

(1922–1988), Canadian biochemist * Fernand Sorlot, French editor and publisher *

Fernand St. Germain Fernand Joseph St Germain (January 9, 1928 – August 16, 2014) was an American politician from Rhode Island. He was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives and the United States House of Repr ...

(1928–2014), American politician *

Fernand Tardy Fernand Tardy (14 June 1919 – 4 April 2017) was a French politician. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1980 to 1998, representing Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Early life Fernand Tardy was born on 14 June 1919 in Versailles near Paris. ...

(1919–2017), French politician

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Jeannot Fernand Jeannot Fernand (born November 22, 1961 in Ambato-Boeni) is a Malagasy politician. He is a member of the Senate of Madagascar The Senate ( mg, Antenimierandoholona / french: Sénat) is the upper chamber of the bicameral Parliament of Madag ...

(born 1961), Malagasy politician

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