Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

form of the name

Peter Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation of

Aramaic The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated in ...

כיפא (''Kefa),'' the nickname

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as

Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...

. Pierre is also found as a surname.

People with the given name

Abbé Pierre Abbé Pierre, OFM Cap, (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; 5 August 191222 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). In 1949, he founded the Em ...

, Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement *

Monsieur Pierre Monsieur Pierre was the professional name of Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (born c. 1890, Toulon, France – died 1963, London). He was a professional dancer and dance teacher, largely responsible for introducing the Latin American dances to ...

, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (c. 1890–1963), French ballroom dancer and dance teacher *

Pierre (footballer) Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira (born 19 January 1982 in Itororó), known as Pierre, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Fluminense as a defensive midfielder. Honours Vitória * Bahia State League: 2000 Ituano * São Paulo State League: 2002 ...

, Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira (born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Pierre, Baron of Beauvau (c. 1380–1453) *

Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre Pierre Philippe Jean Marie d'Orléans (4 November 1845 – 17 July 1919) was Duke of Penthièvre and a grandson of French king Louis Philippe I and of Brazilian Emperor Pedro I. Declining a proposal to marry into the Brazilian royal family, ...

(1845–1919) * Pierre, marquis de Fayet (died 1737), French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue *

Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois Prince Pierre of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois (born Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac; 24 October 1895 – 10 November 1964) was the father of Rainier III of Monaco. He was a promoter of art, music, and literature in M ...

(1895–1964), father of Rainier III of Monaco *

Pierre Affre Pierre Affre (1590-1669) was a French sculptor. Early life Pierre Affre was born in 1590 in Béziers, France. He moved to Toulouse, where he was mentored by Artus Legoust. Career Affre was a sculptor in Toulouse. He first worked with architect C ...

(1590–1669), French sculptor *

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Pierre-Emerick Emiliano François Aubameyang (born 18 June 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Chelsea. He is renowned for his pace, finishing, and off-ball movement. Born in France, he is a former ...

, professional footballer who plays for the English club Chelsea and the Gabon national football team *

Pierre Barbe Pierre Barbe (28 March 1900 – 26 April 2004) was a French architect. Barbe became the "house architect" for the Schlumberger family. He designed Pierre Schlumberger's house on Lazy Lane in Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city ...

(1900–2004), French architect *

Pierre Bézier Pierre Étienne Bézier (1 September 1910 – 25 November 1999; ) was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-ai ...

, engineer and mathematician known for his work with Bézier curves *

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Mont ...

, French classical and electronic composer *

Pierre Bourgault Pierre Bourgault (January 23, 1934 – June 16, 2003) was a politician and essayist, as well as an actor and journalist, from Quebec, Canada. He is most famous as a public speaker who advocated sovereignty for Quebec from Canada. Biography B ...

, public speaker, journalist and politician famed for his work for Quebec independence from Canada *

Pi'erre Bourne Jordan Timothy Jenks (born September 19, 1993), known professionally as Pi'erre Bourne (), is an American rapper, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for producing the singles "Magnolia" by Playboi Carti and "Gummo" by 6ix9ine ...

, American record producer, rapper, songwriter, and audio engineer. *

Pierre Bouvier Pierre Charles Bouvier (born May 9, 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician best known for being the lead vocalist and studio bassist of the rock band Simple Plan. Personal life Bouvier was born to Réal and Louise Bouvier. He has two older ...

, Canadian musician and lead singer of

Simple Plan Simple Plan is a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 1999. The band's lineup consists of Pierre Bouvier (lead vocals, studio bass guitar), Chuck Comeau (drums), Jeff Stinco (lead guitar), and Sébastien Lefebvre (rhythm guita ...

Pierre Brice Pierre-Louis Le Bris (6 February 1929 – 6 June 2015), known as Pierre Brice, was a French actor, best known as portraying fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German films based on Karl May novels. Life and films Brice was born in Brest, Brit ...

, French actor *

Pierre Caille (disambiguation) Pierre Caille may refer to: * Pierre Caille (sculptor) (1911–1996), Belgian sculptor, painter, engraver, ceramicist and jeweller * a man who bought a vineyard in 1543, now the Butte-aux-Cailles neighborhood in Paris See also * Pierre (disambi ...

, several people *

Pierre Capretz Pierre Jean Capretz (30 January 1925 – 2 April 2014) was a French educator and writer, noted for his audio-visual methods for teaching French. A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida ...

, host of ''French in Action'' *

Pierre Cardin Pierre Cardin (, , ), born Pietro Costante Cardino (2 July 1922 – 29 December 2020), was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometric shap ...

, French fashion designer *

Pierre Cathala Pierre Cathala (1888 – 1947) was a French politician. He served as the French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944. Early life Pierre Cathala was born on 22 September 1888 in Montfort-sur-Meu, Brittany, France. He was educated at the Lyc� ...

(1888–1947), French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944 *

Pierre Chambrin Pierre Chambrin (born September 13, 1947) was the White House Executive Chef from 1989 to 1994. Early life and career Chambrin was born in Paris on September 13, 1947. He received his culinary education at the Ecole des Metiers de l'alimentation, ...

, White House Executive Chef * Pierre Chouteau, Jr. (1789–1865), American fur trader who established the trading post of Fort Pierre (South Dakota) in 1832 *

Pierre Clostermann Pierre Henri Clostermann (28 February 1921 – 22 March 2006) was a World War II French people, French fighter pilot. During the conflict he achieved 33 air-to-air combat victories, earning the accolade "France's First Fighter" from General ...

, French pilot who fought in World War II for the Royal Air Force (RAF) *

Pierre Conner Pierre Euclide Conner (27 June 1932, Houston, Texas – 3 February 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American mathematician, who worked on algebraic topology and differential topology (especially cobordism theory). In 1955 Conner received his ...

, American mathematician *

Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...

, French seventeen century playwright known for Le Cid * Pierre Corréia, French rugby union player * Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games * Pierre Courthion (1902–1988), Swiss art critic and historian * Pierre Curie, French physicist and husband of Marie Curie * Pierre Dagher, Lebanese actor and voice actor * Pierre Darmon (born in 1934), French tennis player * Pierre Daru (1767–1829), French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet * Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician * Pierre Deladonchamps, French actor * Pierre Deland, Swedish actor and director * Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Pierre Pelerin de Maricourt, French scholar * Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician * Pierre Dolbeault, French mathematician * Pierre Engvall, Swedish ice hockey forward * Pierre Fourier, Catholic saint and French priest * Pierre Franckh, German actor * Pierre Gagnaire, French chef * Pierre Garçon, American football player * Pierre Gasly, racing driver currently driving for Scuderia AlphaTauri in Formula One * Pierre Gaspard (mountaineer), Pierre Gaspard (1834–1915), French mountain climber and guide * Pierre Gaspard, Belgian physicist and professor * Pierre Gemayel, politician and founder of the Al-Kataeb party in Lebanon * Pierre David Guetta, French DJ, record producer and songwriter * Pierre Harmel (1911–2009), former Belgian Prime Minister * Pierre Henry, French musician * Pierre Hermans, Dutch field hockey goalkeeper * Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg, Danish professional footballer * Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer * Pierre Jallow, Gambian basketball player * Pierre Jeanpierre, French soldier * Pierre Yves Kéralum (1817–1872), French-American priest and architect * Pierre Laporte (1921–1970), Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician * Pierre Lavertu, Canadian football player * Pierre Le Faguays (1892–1962), French sculptor * Pierre Levasseur (disambiguation), several people * Pierre Littbarski, German footballer * Pierre van Maldere, South Dutch composer * Pierre Marchand (editor), French publisher * Pierre Menard, American fur trader and politician * Pierre Morel, French film director * Pierre Nkurunziza, former president of Burundi * Pierre Papillaud (born c. 1936), French billionaire businessman * Pierre Pilote, ice hockey player * Pierre Pincemaille, French musician * Pierre Poilievre, Canadian federal MP for the riding of Nepean-Carleton * Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first self-proclaimed anarchist and is regarded by some as the founder of modern anarchist theory * Pierre-Loup Rajot, French actor and director * Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist artist * Pierre Roger (swimmer), French swimmer * Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to US President John F. Kennedy * Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director * Pierre Schaeffer, French experimental musician * Pierre Schapira (mathematician), French mathematician * Pierre Shammassian, Lebanese-Armenian comedian * Pierre Sinaÿ, French organic chemist * Pierre Sokolsky, American physicist * Pierre Sprey, French-American aircraft designer * Pierre Strong Jr. (born 1998), American football player * Pierre Taki, Japanese musician * Pierre Tendean revolution hero from Indonesia * Pierre Thomas (disambiguation), several people * Pierre Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister * Pierre Turgeon, Québécois NHL Hall of Famer * Pierre Vatin (born 1967), French politician * Pierre Vogel (born 1978), German Islamist Preacher * Pierre Warren, American football player

People with the surname

* Aaron Pierre (born 1993), footballer * Carmine Pierre-Dufour, Canadian film director and screenwriter * DBC Pierre (penname), Mexican writer * Georges St-Pierre (born 1981), Canadian Mixed martial arts, MMA fighter and former Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC Welterweight (MMA), Welterweight champion * James Pierre (born 1996), American football player * Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (1833–1905), French botanist * John Wallace Pierre, American engineer * Juan Pierre (born 1977), American baseball player * Percy A. Pierre (born 1939), American electrical engineer and mathematician * Perri Pierre (born 1988), Haitian-American actor and film producer * Raymond Pierre (born 1967), American track and field athlete * Robert Pierre (musician), Robert Pierre (born 1992), Christian recording artist * Roger Pierre (1923–2010), French actor

Aliases

* Pierre Carl Ouellet, former ring name of Canadian wrestler Carl Ouellet (born 1967) * Pierre Poutine, an alias used in an attempt to hide certain parties involved in the 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal

Fictional characters

* Pierre, a List of Chrono Cross characters#Pierre, ''Chrono Cross'' playable character * Pierre, a character in ''JumpStart'' * Pierre, in the 2016 film ''A Wedding (2016 film), A Wedding'' * Pierre Bezukhov, a central character in the novel ''War and Peace'' by Leo Tolstoy * Pierre Escargot, a French teacher from the TV show ''All That,'' played by Kenan Thompson * Pierre Belmondo, a Wipeout (Psygnosis video game series), ''Wipeout'' character responsible for the birth of anti-gravity racing *Dominique Pierre, in the Netflix series ''Grand Army (TV series), Grand Army''

References

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