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.
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 i ...
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 religiou ...
gave to apostle
Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as
Saint Peter
) (Simeon, Simon)
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire
, death_date = Between AD 64–68
, death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire
, parents = John (or Jonah; Jona)
, occupa ...
. Pierre is also found as a surname.
People with the given name
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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
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Monsieur Pierre, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (c. 1890–1963), French ballroom dancer and dance teacher
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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
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Pierre, Baron of Beauvau Pierre I of Beauvau (c.1380– September 1453), baron of Beauvau, La Roche-sur-Yon and Champigny-sur-Veude, lord of Craon, of Sablé and Ferté-Bernard by marriage. He was an adviser for Charles VII, and chamberlain, counsellor, governor and lieute ...
(c. 1380–1453)
*
Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre (1845–1919)
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Pierre, marquis de Fayet
Pierre, marquis de Fayet (d. 11 July 1737) was a French naval commander. Serving as a Captain in King Louis XV's navy, Pierre was distinguished by his membership of the Order of St. Louis, and later became the Governor General of the French colony ...
(died 1737), French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue
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Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), father of Rainier III of Monaco
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Pierre Affre (1590–1669), French sculptor
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, professional footballer who plays for the English club Chelsea and the Gabon national football team
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Pierre Barbe (1900–2004), French architect
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Pierre Bézier, engineer and mathematician known for his work with Bézier curves
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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 Mon ...
, French classical and electronic composer
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Pierre Bourgault, public speaker, journalist and politician famed for his work for Quebec independence from Canada
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Pi'erre Bourne, American record producer, rapper, songwriter, and audio engineer.
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Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician and lead singer of
Simple Plan
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Pierre Brice, French actor
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Pierre Caille (disambiguation), several people
*
Pierre Capretz, host of ''French in Action''
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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 sh ...
, French fashion designer
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Pierre Cathala (1888–1947), French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944
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Pierre Chambrin, White House Executive Chef
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Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
Pierre Chouteau Jr. (January 19, 1789 – September 6, 1865), also referred to as Pierre Cadet Chouteau, was an American merchant and a member of the wealthy Chouteau fur-trading family of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Early life and education
Choutea ...
(1789–1865), American fur trader who established the trading post of
Fort Pierre (South Dakota) in 1832
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Pierre Clostermann, French pilot who fought in World War II for the Royal Air Force (RAF)
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Pierre Conner, American mathematician
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Pierre Corneille, French seventeen century playwright known for
Le Cid
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Pierre Corréia, French rugby union player
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, founder of the modern Olympic Games
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Pierre Courthion (1902–1988), Swiss art critic and historian
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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie ( , ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becq ...
, French physicist and husband of Marie Curie
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Pierre Dagher, Lebanese actor and voice actor
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Pierre Darmon (born in 1934), French tennis player
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Pierre Daru (1767–1829), French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet
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Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat (; between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he ...
, French lawyer and mathematician
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Pierre Deladonchamps
Pierre Deladonchamps (born 1 June 1978) is a French actor. He is known for starring in the thriller film ''Stranger by the Lake'' (2013), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He went on to receive a nomination for the Cé ...
, French actor
*
Pierre Deland
Pierre Joseph Deland (13 December 1805 – 13 November 1862) was a Swedish stage actor and theatre director. He was the director of the Deland Theater Company in 1833-1861, a travelling theater famous in both Sweden and Finland, and as such an in ...
, Swedish actor and director
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Pierre Pelerin de Maricourt, French scholar
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Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
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Pierre Dolbeault
Pierre Dolbeault (October 10, 1924 – June 12, 2015) was a French mathematician.
Dolbeault studied with Henri Cartan and graduated in 1944 from the École Normale Supérieure. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Paris in 1955 under the ...
, French mathematician
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Pierre Engvall, Swedish ice hockey forward
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Pierre Fourier, Catholic saint and French priest
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Pierre Franckh, German actor
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Pierre Gagnaire, French chef
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Pierre Garçon, American football player
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Pierre Gasly, racing driver currently driving for
Scuderia AlphaTauri
Scuderia AlphaTauri, or simply AlphaTauri, is an Italian Formula One racing team and constructor. It is one of two Formula One constructors owned by Austrian beverage company Red Bull, the other being Red Bull Racing. The constructor was rebra ...
in Formula One
*
Pierre Gaspard (1834–1915), French mountain climber and guide
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Pierre Gaspard, Belgian physicist and professor
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Pierre Gemayel, politician and founder of the Al-Kataeb party in Lebanon
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Pierre David Guetta, French DJ, record producer and songwriter
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Pierre Harmel (1911–2009), former Belgian Prime Minister
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Pierre Henry, French musician
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Pierre Hermans, Dutch field hockey goalkeeper
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Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg, Danish professional footballer
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Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
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Pierre Jallow, Gambian basketball player
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Pierre Jeanpierre, French soldier
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Pierre Yves Kéralum (1817–1872), French-American priest and architect
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Pierre Laporte (1921–1970), Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
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Pierre Lavertu
Pierre Lavertu (born May 11, 1990) is a former Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted by the Stampeders with the first overall pick in the 2014 CFL Draft. He p ...
, Canadian football player
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Pierre Le Faguays (1892–1962), French sculptor
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Pierre Levasseur (disambiguation) Pierre Levasseur may refer to:
* Pierre Levasseur (aircraft builder) (1890–1941), French aircraft builder
* Pierre Émile Levasseur (1828–1911), French economist
* A colonial head of French Sénégal from September 1807 to 13 July 1809
* The p ...
, several people
*
Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
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Pierre van Maldere, South Dutch composer
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Pierre Marchand (editor)
Pierre Marchand (17 November 1939 – 4 April 2002) was a significant figure in French publishing history, who gave French publishing an international dimension. He created the magazine ' ("Sails and Sailboats") with in 1971. He joined Édition ...
, French publisher
*
Pierre Menard, American fur trader and politician
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Pierre Morel, French film director
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Pierre Nkurunziza, former
president of Burundi
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Pierre Papillaud
Pierre Bernard Papillaud (1 July 1935 – 13 June 2017) was a French billionaire businessman.
Early life
Pierre Papillaud was born in Vignonet, a small village in Gironde. His grandmother owned two cows. During World War II, his father, who serv ...
(born c. 1936), French billionaire businessman
*
Pierre Pilote, ice hockey player
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Pierre Pincemaille
Pierre-Marie François Pincemaille (8 December 1956 – 12 January 2018) was a French organist, improviser, and pedagogue. He was known for his organ improvisations, both in concert and on CD and for his recordings of Charles-Marie Wido ...
, French musician
*
Pierre Poilievre, Canadian federal MP for the riding of Nepean-Carleton
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (, , ; 15 January 1809, Besançon – 19 January 1865, Paris) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979) 959 "The Three Anticapitalistic Movements". ''European So ...
, the first self-proclaimed anarchist and is regarded by some as the founder of modern anarchist theory
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Pierre-Loup Rajot, French actor and director
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that " ...
, French impressionist artist
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Pierre Roger (swimmer), French swimmer
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Pierre Salinger
Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth press secretary for United States Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger serve ...
, Press Secretary to US President John F. Kennedy
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Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director
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Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: , ; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His inno ...
, French experimental musician
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Pierre Schapira (mathematician), French mathematician
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Pierre Shammassian
Pierre Chammassian (born in Bourj Hammoud on 9 March 1949, Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Armenian comedian, actor and stand-up comic, popular in Lebanon with Arabs and Armenians, as well as in the Armenian Diaspora.
Career
Chammassian regularl ...
, Lebanese-Armenian comedian
*
Pierre Sinaÿ, French organic chemist
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Pierre Sokolsky, American physicist
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Pierre Sprey, French-American aircraft designer
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Pierre Strong Jr.
Pierre Strong Jr. (born December 10, 1998) is an American football running back for the New England Patriots in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at South Dakota State.
Early life and high school
Strong grew up in Li ...
(born 1998), American football player
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Pierre Taki, Japanese musician
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Pierre Tendean revolution hero from Indonesia
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Pierre Thomas (disambiguation) Pierre Thomas could refer to:
*Pierre Thomas (American football) (born 1984), American football player
*Pierre Thomas (journalist), American journalist
*Pierre Thomas (scholar) (1634–1698), French scholar and author
*Pierre “P” Thomas (Co-fou ...
, several people
*
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau ( , ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and ...
, former Canadian Prime Minister
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Pierre Turgeon, Québécois NHL Hall of Famer
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Pierre Vatin (born 1967), French politician
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Pierre Vogel
Pierre Vogel (born July 20, 1978), also known as Abu Hamza ( ar, أبو حمزة) is a German Islamist preacher and a former professional boxer.
Early life and boxing career
Vogel was born in Frechen. He turned professional at the age of 22, fi ...
(born 1978), German Islamist Preacher
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Pierre Warren
Pierre Carmelle Warren (born August 16, 1992) is a former American football safety. He played college football at Jacksonville State University. He was a member of the New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings and Ottawa Redblacks.
Early years
Warren ...
, American football player
People with the surname
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Aaron Pierre
Aaron Jordan Pierre (born 17 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back for League Two club Sutton United and the Grenada national team.
He began his career in the academy at Premier League club Fulham, before join ...
(born 1993), footballer
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Carmine Pierre-Dufour, Canadian film director and screenwriter
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DBC Pierre (penname), Mexican writer
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Georges St-Pierre (born 1981), Canadian
MMA fighter and former
UFC Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the ...
champion
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James Pierre
James Pierre Jr. (born September 16, 1996) is an American football cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Florida Atlantic.
Early life and high school
Pierre attended Deerfie ...
(born 1996), American football player
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Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (1833–1905), French botanist
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John Wallace Pierre, American engineer
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Juan Pierre (born 1977), American baseball player
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Percy A. Pierre
Percy Anthony Pierre (born January 3, 1939) is an American electrical engineer. He was the first African-American Ph.D. in electrical engineering, appointed assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for Research and Development, and appointed acting ...
(born 1939), American electrical engineer and mathematician
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Perri Pierre (born 1988), Haitian-American actor and film producer
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Raymond Pierre
Raymond Pierre (born September 19, 1967) is a former American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprinting events during his career. Pierre won the 1989 NCAA 400 meters running for Baylor University. He is best known for winning the men ...
(born 1967), American track and field athlete
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Robert Pierre (born 1992), Christian recording artist
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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
The 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal (also known as the Robocall scandal, Robogate, or RoboCon) is a political scandal stemming from events during the 2011 Canadian federal election. It involved robocalls and real-perso ...
Fictional characters
* Pierre, a
''Chrono Cross'' playable character
* Pierre, a character in ''
JumpStart
''JumpStart'' (known as ''Jump Ahead'' in the United Kingdom) is an educational media franchise for children, consisting mostly of educational games, produced by JumpStart Games. The series originally consisted of a series of educational PC ga ...
''
* Pierre, in the 2016 film ''
A Wedding''
*
Pierre Bezukhov, a central character in the novel ''War and Peace'' by Leo Tolstoy
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Pierre Escargot
''All That'' is an American sketch comedy television series created by Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin. The series originally aired on Nickelodeon from April 16, 1994, to October 22, 2005, lasting ten seasons, and was produced by Tollin/Robbins P ...
, a French teacher from the TV show ''
All That,'' played by Kenan Thompson
* Pierre Belmondo, a
''Wipeout'' character responsible for the birth of anti-gravity racing
*Dominique Pierre, in the Netflix series ''
Grand Army''
See also
*
Pierre (disambiguation)
*
Lucky Pierre (disambiguation)
*
Saint-Pierre (disambiguation)
*
Jean-Pierre (given name) Jean-Pierre is a French male given name (in English "John-Peter"). It may refer to:
* Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911–2001), a French actor
* Jean-Pierre Bemba (b. 1962), a Congolese politician and rebel leader
* Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753–1809), a F ...
*
Pierre-Simon
References
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French masculine given names
Surnames of Haitian origin