Pascal is a
French and an
Italian
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surname
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of Romance origin.
Origin of the surname
Pascal is a
patronymic
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Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, alt ...
surname that derives from the personal given name
Pascal, from
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
Paschalis.
In France Pascal is especially found in the Southern-Eastern area, in
Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône an ...
and
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; or , ; commonly shortened to PACA; en, Provence-Alps-French Riviera, italic=yes; also branded as Région Sud) is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, the far southeastern on the mainland. Its pref ...
, while in Italy Pascal is found in Northern-Western area, in
Piedmont
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Aosta Valley
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and the variant ''De Pascal'' in
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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People
*Adam Pascal
Adam Pascal (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, singer, and musician, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original 1996 cast of Jonathan Larson's musical '' Rent'' on Broadway, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the ...
(born 1970), American actor and singer
*Amy Pascal
Amy Beth Pascal (born March 25, 1958) is an American film producer and business executive. She served as the Chairperson of the Motion Pictures Group of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Co-Chairperson of SPE, including Sony Pictures Televis ...
(born 1958), American film producer.
*André Pascal
André Pascal (1932–2001), born André Pascal Nicolas di Fusco in Marseille, was a French songwriter and composer.
History
As an adolescent he was already well versed in French poetry from François Villon to Alfred de Vigny. He could expres ...
(1932–2001), French songwriter and composer
*Andrew Pascal
Andrew Scott Pascal (born November 3, 1965) is an American businessman. He is the founder, CEO, and chairman of Play Studios, a consumer gambling company focused on the free-to-play social and mobile gambling market. He is also the managing partn ...
(born 1965), American businessman in the gaming industry.
*Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic Church, Catholic writer.
He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pa ...
(1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher
*Christine Pascal
Christine Pascal (29 November 1953 – 30 August 1996) was a French actress, writer and director.
Biography
Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's '' Les Guichets du Louvre'' (1974), and began an association w ...
(1953 – 1996), French actress, writer and director
*Dave Pascal
Dave Pascal (1918, Manhattan-3 March 2003, New York City) was an American cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, sa ...
(1918 – 2003), American cartoonist
*Ernest Pascal
Ernest Pascal (January 11, 1896 – November 4, 1966) was an English-born American screenwriter, author, playwright, and poet. Originally an author, he became involved in the film industry when his novels began to be optioned into films during th ...
(1896 – 1966), English-American writer
*Étienne Pascal
Étienne Pascal (; 2 May 1588 – 24 September 1651) was a French chief tax officer and the father of Blaise Pascal.
Biography
Pascal was born in Clermont to Martin Pascal, the treasurer of France, and Marguerite Pascal de Mons. He had three da ...
(1588–1651), French judge and amateur scientist, father of Blaise
*Fabian Pascal
Fabian Pascal is a Romanian-American consultant to large software vendors such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, and Borland, but is better known as an author and seminar speaker. Born in Romania, Pascal lives in the San Francisco, CA area of the U ...
, Romanian-American computer scientist
*Francine Pascal
Francine Pascal ('' née'' Rubin, born May 13, 1938) is an American author best known for creating the Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. ''Sweet Valley High'' was the backbone of the collection, and was made into a popular television se ...
, American author
* Francoise Pascal, Mauritian actress
*Gabriel Pascal
Gabriel Pascal (born Gábor Lehel; 4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian film producer and director whose best-known films were made in the United Kingdom.
Pascal was the first film producer to successfully bring the plays of Georg ...
, Romanian film producer and director
*Gisèle Pascal
Gisèle Pascal (17 September 1921 – 2 February 2007) was a French actress and a former lover of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
She was born Gisèle Marie Madeleine Tallone at Cannes, France. Her first movie role was in 1942's '' L'Arlà ...
, French actress
*Jacqueline Pascal
Jacqueline Pascal (4 October 1625 – 4 October 1661), sister of Blaise Pascal, was born at Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne (region), Auvergne, France.
Like her brother she was a prodigy, composing verses when only eight years old, and a five-act com ...
(1625–1661), the sister of Blaise
*Jean-Claude Pascal
Jean-Claude Villeminot (24 October 1927 – 5 May 1992), better known as Jean-Claude Pascal (), was a French comedian, actor, singer and writer.
Early life
He was born in Paris into a family of wealthy textile manufacturers. His mother, ...
, French singer
* Jean-Thenistor Pascal, Haitian-Canadian professional boxer
*John Pascal
John Pascal (July 8, 1932 – January 7, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter, author, and journalist.
Education
John Robert Pascal was born on July 8, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his journalism degree at New York Unive ...
, American playwright
*Julia Pascal
Julia Pascal is a British playwright and theatre director.
Biography
A Jewish atheist, Pascal's stage plays include three grouped together as ''The Holocaust Trilogy''. The first of these is ''Theresa'', based on historical accounts of a Jewish w ...
, British playwright
* Maite Orsini Pascal, Chilean actress and model
*Marie-Georges Pascal
Marie-Georges Pascal (born Marie-Georges Charlotte Faisy; October 2, 1946 – November 9, 1985) was a French film, television , French actress
*Marta Pascal
Marta Pascal Capdevila (born 10 April 1983) is a Spanish politician, a Senator of the Parliament of Catalonia. From July 2016 to July 2018, she was general coordinator of the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT). From October 2012 to Februar ...
(born 1983), Spanish politician
* Mary Ann Pascal, American actress
*Nelon Pascal
Nelon Troy Pascal (born 25 April 1987 in St David's, Grenada) is a cricketer who has represented the West Indies in Tests
Test(s), testing, or TEST may refer to:
* Test (assessment), an educational assessment intended to measure the responde ...
, West Indian cricketer
*Olivia Pascal
Olivia Pascal (born Olivia Gerlitzki: 26 May 1957 in Munich, West Germany) is a German actress.
Career
Olivia Pascal was working as a medical assistant in 1976 when she was discovered by director Hubert Frank for the erotic film ''Vanessa''. S ...
, German actress
* Paul Pascal (1839 - 1905), French landscape painter
*Pedro Pascal
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (born 2 April 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. He began his career guest-starring on various television shows before rising to prominence for portraying Oberyn Martell on the fourth season of the HBO fantasy ...
, Chilean-American actor
* Robert A. Pascal, American politician
* Zach Pascal (born 1994), American football player
Fictional characters
* Ana Pascal, the love interest of the main character from the film '' Stranger than Fiction'' (2006)
* Mattia Pascal, the main character in ''The Late Mattia Pascal
''The Late Mattia Pascal'' ( ) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello. It is one of his best-known works and was his first major treatment of the theme of the mask.''The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature''; edited by Peter Hainsworth and Davi ...
'', novel by Luigi Pirandello
* Esmée Pascal, a police officer appearing in the second season of '' Dexter''
References
See also
*Pascal (given name)
Pascal is a masculine and feminine given name. It is a Francophone name, cognate of Italian language, Italian name Pasquale, Spanish language, Spanish name Pascual (disambiguation), Pascual, Catalan language, Catalan name Pasqual (disambiguation), ...
*Pascal (disambiguation)
Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** Blaise Pascal, Fren ...
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Italian-language surnames
French-language surnames