Rivière, La Rivière, or Les Rivières (French for "river") may refer to:

Places

Belgium

Rivière, Profondeville Rivière ( wa, Rivire) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Profondeville, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. Remains dating back to the Magdalenian have been discovered in the village, and the area appears to ...

, a village

Canada

La Rivière, Manitoba La Rivière is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in Manitoba, Canada. It is located 11 km west of the town of Manitou on Highway 3. It is located in the Municipality of Pembina. La Riviere was founded 1886 by ...

, a community * Les Rivières (Quebec City), a borough

France

La Rivière, Gironde La Rivière (; oc, La Ribèra) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population See also * Communes of the Gironde department The following is a list of the 535 communes of the Gironde depa ...

Rivière, Indre-et-Loire Rivière () is a Communes of France, commune in the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France, department in central France. Population The inhabitants are called ''Ripérains''. See also *Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department References

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* La Rivière, Isère * Rivière, Pas-de-Calais * La Rivière, Réunion, home of the SS Rivière Sport football club

Other uses

* Rivière, a style of

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* "Riviere", a 2006 song by Deftones from ''

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People with the surname

* Anna Riviere (1810-1884) opera singer known by her married name of Anna Bishop *

Beatrice Rivière Beatrice Marie Riviere is a computational and applied mathematician. She is the Noah Harding Chair and Professor in the department of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University. Her research involves developing efficient numerical me ...

, French applied mathematician *

Briton Rivière Briton Rivière (14 August 1840 in London20 April 1920 in London) was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animal paintings. Biography Briton's fat ...

(1840–1920), British artist *

Charles Marie Rivière Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

(1845–?), French botanist abbreviated C.Rivière *

Daniel Riviere Daniel Valentine Riviere (1780 – 17 February 1854) was an English miniaturist. He was the patriarch of the colourful London Riviere family of artists and singers. Life He was born in London in 1780 the son of Samuel Newton Riviere and his wife A ...

(1780-1846) artist and father of a family of noted artists and singers *

Émile Rivière Émile-Valère Rivière de Précourt (22 April 1835 - 25 January 1922) was a French physician and specialist in prehistory who conducted explorations of caves in the region for human remains. He was known for his cave research at Balzi Rossi in Ve ...

(1835-1922), French archaeologist *

Emmanuel Rivière Emmanuel José Rivière (born 3 March 1990) is a Martiniquais professional footballer. Rivière primarily plays in the lead striker role, but can also operate on wings. He was a French youth international having played at all levels before swi ...

(born 1990), French footballer *

Georges Henri Rivière Georges-Henri Rivière (1897–1985) was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices. Biography Rivière studied music until 1925, when he began museum studies at the École du Louvre from which he gradu ...

(1897–1985), French museologist *

Henri Rivière (naval officer) Henri Laurent Rivière (1827–1883) was a French naval officer and a writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 ina ...

(1827–1883), French naval commander involved in the conquest of northern Vietnam *

Henri Rivière (painter) Henri Rivière (March 11, 1864 – August 24, 1951) was a French artist and designer best known for his creation of a form of shadow play at the ''Chat Noir'' cabaret, and for his post-Impressionist illustrations of Breton landscapes and the Eiffe ...

(1864–1951), French artist, designer and theatrical technician *

Henri Rivière (bobsleigh) Henri Joseph Rivière (16 January 1922 – 20 June 1989) was a French bobsledder who competed in the 1950s. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It consti ...

(born 1922), French Olympic bobsledder *

Hugh Goldwin Rivière Hugh Goldwin Rivière (1869–1956) was a noted British portraitist. He was one of seven children of Briton Rivière and was of Huguenot descent. Examples of his work are held in a very wide variety of public collections, including the Victoria ...

(1869–1956), British portraitist *

Jacques Rivière Jacques Rivière (15 July 1886 – 14 February 1925) was a French "man of letters" — a writer, critic and editor who was "a major force in the intellectual life of France in the period immediately following World War I". He edited the ...

(1886–1925), French writer *

Jean-François Rivière Jean-François Rivière (born 28 February 1977) is a retired French footballer who played as a striker. His previous clubs include Chamois Niortais, Stade Lavallois, Amiens SC, Besançon RC, AC Ajaccio, Clermont Foot, and Gazélec Ajaccio. Care ...

(born 1977), French footballer *

Jérôme Rivière Jérôme Rivière (born 8 July 1964) is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) until 2007, he was a member of the Na ...

(born 1964), French politician and lawyer *

Joan Riviere Joan Hodgson Riviere (28 June 1883 – 20 May 1962) was a British psychoanalyst, who was both an early translator of Freud into English and an influential writer on her own account. Life and career Riviere was born Joan Hodgson Verrall in Bri ...

(1883–1962), British psychoanalyst *

Joannès Rivière Joannès "Jo" Rivière is a French chef, restaurateur and cookbook author specializing in Cambodian cuisine. He has been regarded as the leading Western authority on Cambodian food. Biography Rivière was born and grew up in Roanne, France. ...

(1979), French chef, restaurateur and cookbook author * Margarita Rivière (1944–2015), Spanish journalist and writer *

Marie Auguste Rivière Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tro ...

(1821–1877), French botanist *

Osborne Riviere Francis Osborne Riviere (1932 – 23 November 2017) was Foreign Minister of Dominica. He became the foreign minister in 2001, replacing the prime minister, Pierre Charles. He acted as Prime Minister, after Pierre Charles' s death. He had prev ...

(born 1932), Dominican politician * Paul Rivière (1912–1998), French Resistance fighter and politician *

Robert Riviere Robert Riviere (30 June 1808 in London – 12 April 1882 in London) was a British bookbinder of Huguenot descent. Life Riviere was descended from a French family, who left their country on the revocation of the edict of Nantes. His father, Daniel ...

(1808–1882), English bookbinder *

Roger Rivière Roger Rivière (23 February 1936, Saint-Étienne – 1 April 1976, Saint-Galmier) was a French track and road bicycle racer. He raced as a professional from 1957 to 1960. Rivière, a time trialist, all-around talent on the road, and a three-tim ...

(1936–1976), French cyclist *

Roger-Arnould Rivière Roger-Arnould Rivière (21 March 1930 – 16 September 1959) was a French poet. Rivière was born in Tarare, Rhône (department), Rhône. Despite not being unpopular among other people, he was disgusted with his looks (especially lips). His poet ...

(1930–1959), French poet *

Romaine Rivière Romaine may refer to: Places * Romaine, Tasmania, Australia, a suburb of Burnie * Romaine (Saône), a river in eastern France * La Romaine, Haute-Saône, a commune in France * La Romaine, Quebec, Canada, an Indian reserve * La Romaine, Quebec ...

, birth name of Romaine-la-Prophétesse (born 1750), Haitian revolutionary * Théonie Rivière Mignot (1819–1875), American restaurateur * Yohann Rivière (born 1984), French footballer