Masculine Ghislain, Guislain, Gislain or Ghiselin and feminine Ghislaine or Ghyslaine is a French
personal name
A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...
used in countries with French-speaking populations. The name derives from Germanic words ''gis'' ("information") and ''lind'' ("sweet"). The name possibly became popular as it was added to the names given to children at birth to afford them protection by Saint Ghislain of Hainaut.
People with this given name include:
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Saint Ghislain (died 680), probably Germanic Belgian Roman Catholic saint whose name was later given to children.
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Ghislaine Dommanget
Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget (13 October 1900 – 30 April 1991) was a French actress, and the Princess consort of Monaco from 1946 to 1949.
Early life
Dommanget was born in Reims, France, as the daughter of Colonel Robert Joseph D ...
(1900–1991), Princess of Monaco and actress
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Ghislaine Alexander (1922–2000), British heiress and socialite
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Ghislain Cloquet (1924–1981), Belgian-born French cinematographer
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Ghislaine Roquet Ghislaine Roquet, CC (1926 – May 31, 2016) was a philosophy professor and a nun with the Sœurs de Sainte-Croix community in Quebec. She was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada
The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abb ...
(1926–2016), Canadian philosophy professor and nun
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Ghislain Fournier (born 1938), Canadian politician and businessman
* Ghislaine Thesmar (born 1943), French ballet dancer
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Ghislain de Montgolfier Ghislain de Montgolfier (born 1943) is a French winemaker, and the former head of the Bollinger Champagne house, and the sixth generation to run the family business.
Montgolfier was born in 1943, and grew up in Paris.
In 1994, Montgolfier, great- ...
(born 1943), French winemaker, head of the Bollinger Champagne house
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Ghislaine Barnay (born 1945), French athlete
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Ghislain Harvey
Ghislain Harvey (born May 6, 1946 in Bagotville, Quebec) was a member of the Quebec Provincial Parliament from 1973 to 1976.
In the 1973 Quebec general election, Harvey was a candidate for the Liberal Party of Quebec in Dubuc and defeated Par ...
(born 1946), Canadian politician
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Ghislain Lebel (born 1946), Canadian politician
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Ghyslaine Côté (born 1955), Canadian filmmaker
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Ghislaine Maxwell (born 1961), British socialite, daughter of Robert Maxwell, companion of Jeffrey Epstein and convicted sex criminal
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Lady Ghislaine, yacht named after Maxwell
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Ghislain Anselmini (born 1970), French footballer*
Ghislain Lemaire
Ghislain Lemaire (born 7 August 1972 in Lure, Haute-Saône) is a French judoka
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百 ...
(born 1972), French judoka
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Ghislain Poirier, artist name Poirier (born 1976), Canadian DJ from Montreal
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Ghislain Gimbert (born 1985), French footballer
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Gislaine Cristina Souza da Silva (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
* Ghyslain Raza (born circa 1988), creator of the viral video
Star Wars Kid
''Star Wars Kid'' is a viral video made in 2002 by Ghyslain Raza[I ...](_blank)
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Ghislain Barbe, Canadian illustrator
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Gislain Ejabo, Cameroonian-born in Konda Village/ Bamenda petroleum engineer
See also
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7112 Ghislaine 711 may refer to:
* 711 (number), a natural number
* AD 711, a year of the 8th century AD
* 711 BC, a year of the 8th century BC
* 7-1-1, the telephone number of the Telecommunications Relay Service in the United States and Canada
* 7-Eleven, a cha ...
(1986 GV), a main-belt asteroid
References
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French masculine given names