Pierre-Louis or Pierre Louis is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Pierre-Louis Bentabole
Pierre Louis Bentabole (or Bentabolle) was a revolutionary Frenchman, born in Landau Haut Rhin on 4 June 1756 and died in Paris on 22 April 1798. As lawyer, he presided practiced in the district of Hagenau and Saverne; he was deputy of the Bas-R ...
(1756–1798), revolutionary Frenchman
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Pierre-Louis Billaudèle (1796–1869), priest from, and educated in, France who spent over 30 years of his service in Canada
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Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas
Pierre-Louis Jean Casimir, Count of Blacas d'Aulps (10 January 1771 – 17 November 1839), later created 1st Duke of Blacas (1821), was a French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration.
Biography Early life
He was ...
, 1st Prince of Blacas (1771–1839), French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration
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Pierre Louis de Broglie (1892–1987), French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory
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Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari
Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari (4 July 1841 – 3 September 1879) was an Italian-British military administrator.
Cavagnari was the son of Count Louis Adolphus Cavagnari, of an old family from Parma in the service of the Bonaparte family, b ...
KCB CSI (1841–1879), British military administrator
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Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave
Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (5 May 1795 – 9 April 1877) was a French dermatologist who practiced medicine at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.
In 1823 he was appointed interne to the hospitals of Paris, and in 1835 became ''professor ag ...
(1795–1877), French dermatologist who practiced medicine at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris
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Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861), French geologist and mineralogist, and a founder of the French Geological Society
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Pierre-Louis Cretey (1635–1702), French baroque painter and one of the leading masters in the Lyonnaise school
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Pierre-Louis Dietsch
Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch (also ''Dietch'', ''Dietzch'', ''Dietz'') (17 March 1808 – 20 February 1865) was a French composer and conductor,Cooper & Millington 1992. perhaps best remembered for the much anthologized Ave Maria 'by' Jacques A ...
(1808–1865), French composer and conductor
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Pierre-Louis Dieufaite (1983–2014), Haitian actor, known for his supporting role in the award-winning film ''Love Me Haiti''
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Pierre Louis Dulong
Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE (; ; 12 February 1785 – 19 July 1838) was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries for his studies into ...
FRS FRSE IOF (1785–1838), French physicist and chemist, remembered for the law of Dulong and Petit
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Pierre Louis Dumesnil (1698–1781), French painter who specialized in genre scenes
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Pierre-Louis Dupas
Count of the Empire Pierre-Louis Dupas (13 February 1761 – 6 March 1823) was a French soldier who rose to prominence during the French Revolutionary Wars, was noted for his association with Napoleon Bonaparte, and rose to the top military rank o ...
(1761–1823), French soldier who rose to prominence during the French Revolutionary Wars
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Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat was a governor in the early 20th century French Colonial Empire.
Titles held
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(Dates in italics indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)
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, Governor in French Colonial Empire
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Pierre Louis Charles de Failly
Pierre-Louis Charles de Failly (21 January 1810 – 15 November 1892) was a French general.
He was born in Rozoy-sur-Serre, Aisne, the son of Count Charles-Louis de Failly (descendant of a family of ancient nobility from Lorraine), and of Sop ...
(1810–1892), French general
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Pierre-Louis Ginguené
Pierre-Louis Ginguené (25 April 1748 – 16 November 1816) was a French author.
Biography
He was born at Rennes, in Brittany, and educated at a Jesuit college there. He came to Paris in 1772, and wrote criticisms for the ''Mercure de France''. ...
(1748–1816), French author
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Pierre-Louis Van Gobbelschroy (1784–1850), conservative politician of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
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(Pierre Louis) Philippe de La Guêpière
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French language, French form of the name Peter (given name), Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via ...
(1715–1773), French architect
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Pierre Louis Jean Ivolas
Pierre Louis Jean Ivolas (7 April 1842, in Sète – 29 June 1908, in Tours) was a French naturalist.
A professor at the Lycée Descartes in Tours, he is remembered for geological studies of central France and botanical investigations of Indre-e ...
(1842–1908), French naturalist
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Pierre Louis de Lacretelle
Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (9 October 1751 – 5 September 1824) was a French lawyer, politician and writer.
He was born in Metz, the elder brother of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle.
He practised as a barrister in Paris. In 1784 he share ...
(1751–1824), French lawyer, politician and writer
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Pierre-Louis Lions
Pierre-Louis Lions (; born 11 August 1956) is a French people, French mathematician. He is known for a number of contributions to the fields of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was a recipient of the 1994 Fields Me ...
(born 1956), French mathematician
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Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (17 May 1908 – 15 January 2011) was a French Resistance fighter during World War II who later served as CEO of the Louis Dreyfus Cie.
Early life and education
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus was born on 17 May 1908 in Paris, one of ...
(1908–2011), French-born Resistance fighter during World War II who later served as CEO of the Louis Dreyfus Cie
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Jean-Pierre-Louis de Luchet Jean-Pierre-Louis de Luchet (1740–1792), also known as the Marquis de La Roche du Maine, or Marquis de Luchet, was a French journalist, essayist, and theatre manager.
Life
Luchet held salons under the name of Marquis de La Roche, and was part o ...
(1740–1792), French journalist, essayist, and theatre manager
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Pierre Louis Manuel
Louis Pierre Manuel (July 1751 – 14 November 1793) was a republican French writer, municipal administrator of the police, and public prosecutor during the French Revolution who was arrested, trialled and guillotined.
Life
Revolutionary
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(1751–1793), French writer and political figure of the Revolution
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Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet
Pierre-Louis Binet de Marcognet (14 November 1765 – 19 December 1854) joined the French army in 1781 as an officer cadet and fought in the American Revolutionary War. During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought in the Army of the Rhine and ...
(1765–1854), fought in the American Revolutionary War
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; ; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the ...
(1698–1759), French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
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Pierre-Louis Moline
Pierre-Louis Moline ( – 20 March 1820)Mahul 1823, p. 157. Rushton 1992, p. 425, gives his date of death as 19 February 1821. Pitou 1985, p. 367, gives his date of death as 19 February 1820. was a prolific French dramatist, poet and librettist. ...
(1740–1820), prolific French dramatist, poet and librettist
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Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (Paris 1727 — Paris 1793) was a pioneering French Neoclassicism, neoclassical architect.
Training
Though he did not gain the Prix de Rome that was the dependable gateway to a prominent French career in architecture ...
(1727–1793), pioneering French neoclassical architect
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Pierre-Louis Panet
Pierre-Louis Panet (August 1, 1761 – December 2, 1812) was a Canadian lawyer, notary, seigneur, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.
He was born in Montreal in 1761, the son of Pierre Panet, a lawyer. Panet qualified to practice a ...
(1761–1812), Canadian lawyer, notary, seigneur, judge and political figure in Lower Canada
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Pierre Louis Parisis
Pierre Louis Parisis (17 August 1795 – 1866) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of Langres in Haute-Marne, France, from 1835 to 1851.
Biography
Parisis was born in 1795. In 1835 he was consecrated as bishop of Arras. Later he be ...
(1795–1866), the Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of Langres from 1835 to 1851
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Pierre Louis Prieur
Pierre Louis Prieur (Prieur de la Marne) (1 August 1756 – 31 May 1827) was a French lawyer elected to the Estates-General of 1789. During the French Revolution he served as a deputy to the National Convention and held membership in the Com ...
(1756–1827), French lawyer elected to the Estates-General of 1789
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Pierre Louis Roederer
Comte Pierre Louis Roederer (15 February 1754 – 17 December 1835) was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic. Roederer's son, Baron Antoine Marie Roeder ...
(1754–1835), French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic
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Pierre Louis Rouillard
Pierre Louis Rouillard (Paris, 16 January 1820 – Paris, 2 June 1881) was a French sculptor known for his sculptures of animals. He was one of a "school of French '' animalières''", which also included Pierre-Jules Mêne, Antoine-Louis Barye, ...
(1820–1881), French sculptor known for his sculptures of animals
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Pierre Louis de Saffon (1724–1784), French duelist that escaped to exile in the Dutch colony of Demerara, becoming a wealthy landowner
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Pierre-Louis Thévenet
Pierre-Louis Thévenet was a French production designer, art director and set decorator.
Awards
He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''Patton'' (1970).
He won a Goya Award for Best Art Direction for the film ' ...
, French production designer, art director and set decorator
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Pierre Louis Vasquez
Pierre Louis Vasquez also known as Luis Vázquez (October 3, 1798 – September 5, 1868) was a mountain man and merchant, trader. He was a contemporary of many famous European-American explorers of the early west and would come to know many of ...
(1798–1868), mountain man and trader
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Pierre Louis Francois Leveque de Vilmorin
Pierre Louis François Lévêque de Vilmorin (1816–March 22, 1860), usually referred to as Louis de Vilmorin, the grandson of Philippe André de Vilmorin, and a member of the family firm of Vilmorin-Andrieux, devoted his life to biology and ch ...
(1816–1860), devoted his life to biology and chemistry, and the breeding and cultivation of plants
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Pierre-Louis (actor)
Pierre-Louis (1917–1987) was a French film actor. He also directed three films in the early 1950s including ''The Nude Dancer''.Goble p.11
Selected filmography Actor
* ''Madame Angot's Daughter'' (1935)
* '' Hélène'' (1936)
* ''The Mysteries ...
(1917–1987), French actor and film director
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Manoucheka Pierre Louis (born 1989), Haitian women's association football player
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Damase Pierre-Louis
Damase Pierre-Louis (1894–1945) was a Haitian historian, statesman, author, journalist and diplomat.
Pierre-Louis was born in Borgne, northern Haiti. He worked as a teacher of English at the prestigious Collège Notre-Dame du Perpetuel Secour ...
(1894–1945), Haitian historian, statesman, author, journalist and diplomat
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Jean-Claude Pierre-Louis Jean-Claude Pierre-Louis was the Chief Executive of Rodrigues, Chief Executive of Rodrigues (island), Rodrigues Island, Mauritius between October 24, 2004 and March 2010.
Pierre-Louis was the second person to hold the title since it was created in ...
, the Chief Executive of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius between October 24, 2004, and March 2010
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Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis (October 24, 1900 – April 23, 1966) served as acting President of Haiti from 1956 to 1957.
Pierre-Louis, who studied physics and law, was first a professor of physics at the Lycée Philippe Guerrier. After working as ...
(1900–1966), served as acting President of Haiti from 1956 to 1957
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Kevin Pierre-Louis
Kevin Pierre-Louis (born October 7, 1991) is an American football linebacker for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Boston College and was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth roun ...
(born 1991), American football linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL)
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Listner Pierre-Louis (born 1989), Haitian-French football player
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(born 1947), Haitian politician who was Prime Minister of Haiti from September 2008 to November 2009
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Prosper Pierre-Louis
Prosper Pierre-Louis (1947–1997), was a Haitian artist, painter; and one of the main contributors to the local school of the Saint Soleil art movement. His paintings depicting mystical Vodou Loas and spirits are especially noteworthy.
P ...
(1947–1997), Haitian artist, painter and contributor to the local school of the Saint Soleil art movement
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Ricardo Pierre-Louis
Ricardo Pierre-Louis (born November 2, 1984) is a Haitian soccer player, currently playing for Magic Soccer Academy Verrettes in 3rd division in Haiti. He is also the club owner.
Career
College and amateur
Pierre-Louis played college soccer at ...
(born 1984), Haitian soccer player, currently without a club
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Sharon Pierre-Louis, American actress
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Pierre Louis de Blacas d'Aulps ministry
The Government of the first Bourbon restoration replaced the French provisional government of 1814 that had been formed after the fall of Napoleon.
It was announced on 13 May 1814 by King Louis XVIII of France.
After the return of Napoleon from e ...
, Government of the first Bourbon restoration
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Pierre Louÿs
Pierre Louÿs (; 10 December 1870 – 4 June 1925) was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection". ...
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