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Pascale Audret Pascale Audret (12 October 1935, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 17 July 2000) was a French actress who was most active during the 1950s through the 1960s. Career While she starred in over 25 films between 1955 and 1968, her success never crossed over int ...

Pascale Bussières Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress. Life and work Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s 1984 film '' Sonatine''; however ...

Pascale Cossart Pascale Cossart (born 21 March 1948) is a French bacteriologist who is affiliated with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. She is the foremost authority on ''Listeria monocytogenes'', a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephali ...

Pascale Criton Pascale Criton (born 1954) is a French composer of contemporary music, and musicologist. She is particularly known for exploiting very dense microtonal scales such as 1/12 tone or 1/16 and beyond for the particular perception properties they imply ...

Pascale Dorcelus Pascale Dorcelus (born 27 December 1979) is a Canadian weightlifter. Dorcelus competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002 were ...

(born 1979), Canadian weightlifter *

Pascale Ferran Pascale Ferran (; born 17 April 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. In 2007, her film ''Lady Chatterley'' won five César Awards including Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Adaptation. Her 2014 film '' Bird People'' was sele ...

Pascale Garaud Pascale Garaud is a French astrophysicist and applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Californi ...

, French-American astrophysicist *

Pascale Grand Pascale Grand (born August 12, 1967 in Montreal, Quebec) is a retired female racewalker from Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean ...

Pascale Haiti Pascale Haiti is a former politician and government minister from French Polynesia. Biography Haiti held the position of Minister of Handicrafts in the French Polynesian government. In 2009 Haiti was arrested as part of an investigation into co ...

, politician and government minister from French Polynesia *

Pascale Hutton Pascale Hutton (born June 14, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She was born in Creston, British Columbia. Hutton attended the conservatory acting program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadia ...

Pascale Machaalani Pascale Bechara Machaalani ( ar, باسكال بشارة مشعلاني; born 27 March 1967) is a Lebanese singer and actress. Her debut album ''Sahar Sahar'' rose her to stardom throughout the Middle East, making Mashalaani one of the most su ...

Pascale Montpetit Pascale Montpetit (born 28 July 1960) is a French Canadian actress. In 1990 she won a Best Actress Genie Award for Darrell Wasyk's '' H'', and again in 2002 for Mario Azzopardi's '' Savage Messiah'', She has also won two Gémeaux Awards, one ...

Pascale Ogier Pascale Marguerite Cécile Claude Colette Nicolas (26 October 1958 – 25 October 1984), better known as Pascale Ogier, was a French actress. She won the Volpi Cup, and posthumously received a César Award nomination for her role in the 1984 fi ...

Pascale Paradis Pascale Paradis-Mangon (born 24 April 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France. Paradis was the World Junior Champion in women's singles in 1983. Although she failed to reach the heights predicted for her at that time, she did ...

Pascale Petit (actress) Pascale Petit (born Anne-Marie Pettit; 27 February 1938) is a French actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1957 to 2001. Biography Working as a hairdresser, she entered films when her beauty was noticed by actress Françoise Lugagn ...

(born 1938), French actress *

Pascale Petit (poet) Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953), is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist fo ...

(born 1953), French poet *

Pascale Quiviger Pascale Quiviger (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and artist. Raised and educated in Quebec, she is currently based in the United Kingdom, where she writes, paints, teaches visual arts and practices hypnotherapy. Quiviger is married to former Briti ...

Pascale Sourisse Pascale Sourisse (born 7 March 1962) is a French businesswoman. Born in Nantes, Pascale Sourisse graduated from the École Polytechnique (class of 1981) and Télécom ParisTech. She held management positions at the Compagnie Générale des Ea ...

Pascale Trinquet Pascale Trinquet (born 11 August 1958 in Marseille) is a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition. She won a gold medal in the foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.Anie Pascale Anie Pascale is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for a 2009 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Sup ...

, Canadian actress * Ernesto De Pascale, Italian journalist *

Jan Pascale Jan Pascale is an American set decorator who has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award . She has worked on over 50 different TV shows and films since 1982. She won her Emmy 2001 for the TV show ''Boston Public''. She was nominated at ...

, American set decorator *

Lorraine Pascale Lorraine Pascale (born 17 November 1972) is a British television cook and USA Food Network host and former top model, best known for selling almost one million books in the UK alone. Her TV shows are in 70 countries worldwide. She had her own ...

, British former model *

Ronnie Pascale Ronnie Pascale (born September 5, 1976 in North Salem, New York) is a retired American soccer player. Career Youth and College Pascale played college soccer at Furman University from 1995 to 1998. In his rookie season he was named the Sout ...

, American soccer player

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