Achille is a French and Italian masculine given name, derived from the Greek mythological hero Achilles. It may refer to:

People

Artists

* Achille Beltrame (1871–1945), Italian painter *

Achille Calici Achille Calici (born c. 1565) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, and early Baroque. He was born in Bologna. He was a pupil first of Prospero Fontana, then of Lodovico Carracci. He painted the two laterals of the high altar in the churc ...

(c. 1565–?), Italian painter *

Achille Castiglioni Achille Castiglioni (; 16 February 1918 – 2 December 2002) was an Italian architect and designer of furniture, lighting, radiograms and other objects. As a professor of design, he advised his students "If you are not curious, forget it. ...

(1918–2002), Italian designer *

Achille Cattaneo Achille Cattaneo (Limbiate ilan 1872 – Milan, 1931) was an Italian painter. Biography Achille Cattaneo attended the courses of drawing and architecture at the Brera Academy, where he was taught by Emilio Gola, from 1888 to 1896. He began to wo ...

(1872–1931), Italian painter * Achille Devéria (1800–1857), French painter and lithographer * Achille Duchêne (1866–1947), French garden designer *

Achille Empéraire Achille Empéraire (1829–1898) was a French painter. Biography Early life Achille Empéraire was born with dwarfism and a hunchback, on 16 September 1829 in Aix-en-Provence. He took drawing lessons in Aix from 1844 to 1856.''La Peinture en ...

(1829–1898), French painter *

Achille Formis Achille Befani (1832–1906) was an Italian painter, best known as Achille Formis. Biography He was born in Naples and embarked on a singing career there. This was abandoned in the early 1860s when he moved to Milan to attend courses of the Bre ...

(1832–1906), Italian painter *

Achille Funi Achille Funi (26 February 1890 – 26 July 1972) was an Italian painter who painted in a neoclassical style. Biography Funi was born in Ferrara. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movemen ...

(1890–1972), Italian painter *

Achille Glisenti Achille Glisenti (October 1, 1848 – December 21, 1906) was an Italian painter, mostly of elegant genre and Orientalist subjects. Biography He was born in Brescia and had his first training there under Luigi Campini. He then studied at the ...

(1848–1906), Italian painter *

Achille Granchi-Taylor Achille Granchi-Taylor (born in Lyon in 1857 and died in Asnières in 1921) was a French painter and illustrator. Biography His father was an Italian immigrant and commercial traveller and his mother English. He passed his youth in Paris and ...

(1857–1921), French painter and illustrator *

Achille Leonardi Achille Leonardi (ca. 1800–1870) was an Italian artist. Leonardi painted with oil on canvas. Works A representative sample of Leonardi's works include: * Linda di Chamonnid (Chamonix) (100 x 75 cm) * A child's bed time (98 x 74 c ...

(c. 1800–1870), Italian painter *

Achille Locatelli (painter) Achille Locatelli (January 1, 1864 – June 20, 1948) was an Italian people, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, and writer of art biographies. He was born in Almenno San Bartolomeo, Province of Bergamo. Among his works were: ''Un paese del ...

(1864–1948), Italian painter *

Achille Mauzan Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883, in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 1952, in Gap) was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted. Aft ...

((1883–1952), French illustrator, painter and sculptor *

Achille Etna Michallon Achille Etna Michallon (1796–1822) was a French painter. Michallon was the son of the sculptor Claude Michallon and nephew of the sculptor Guillaume Francin. He studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, Mi ...

(1796–1822), French painter *

Achille Mollica Achille Mollica (1832–1885) was an Italian painter of both canvases and ceramics. Biography Achille was born to a family who manufactured maiolica ceramics. His father, Giovanni, had established the factory of "Mollica Ceramiche", which employe ...

(1832–1885), Italian painter * Achille Peretti (artist) (1857–1923), Italian painter, sculptor and anarchist *

Achille Petrocelli Achille Petrocelli (born August 18, 1861 or December 30, 1862) was an Italian painter, mainly of Genre painting, genre themes of his native Naples. He was the son of painter Vicenzo Petrocelli, Vincenzo, and younger brother of painter Arturo Petr ...

(1861/62–1896), Italian painter *

Achille Pinelli Achille Pinelli (1809 – 5 September 1841) was an Italian painter. Born in Rome, he was the son of the painter Bartolomeo Pinelli and his wife Mariangela Gatti. Pinelli has left about two hundred watercolors painted between 1826 and 1835, prese ...

(1809–1841), Italian painter *

Achille Solari Achille Solari (Naples, October 9, 1835 - 1884) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes of the region around Naples. He obtained a stipend from the province of Terra di Lavoro to study at the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples, and earned pri ...

(1835–1884), Italian painter * Achille Valois (1785–1862), French designer and sculptor * Achille Vertunni (1826–1897), Italian painter * Achille Vianelli (1803–1894), Italian painter * Achille Zo (1826–1901), French painter

Musicians, composers and singers

* Achille Baquet (1885–1955/1956), American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist * Achille De Bassini (1819–1881), Italian baritone * Achille Campisiano (1837–1908), French pianist and composer * Achille Rivarde (1865–1940), American-born British violinist and teacher * Achille Simonetti (1857–1928), Italian violinist and composer

Politicians

* Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1781–1864), French politician *

Achille Casanova Achille Casanova (2 October 1941 – 17 July 2016) was a Swiss journalist and politician. He held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland between 1981 and 2005, and during this time became the first official spokesman for the Swiss Federal Co ...

(1941–2016), Swiss journalist and politician * Achille Corona (1914–1979), Italian socialist politician, lawyer and journalist *

Achille Joseph Delamare Achille Joseph Delamare (11 February, 1790– 8 March, 1873) was a French military officer and politician. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1852 to 1870. He was the owner of the Château de Marchais from 1836 to 1854. He served a ...

(1790–1873), French senator * Achille Larue (1849–1922), Canadian lawyer and politician *

Achille Occhetto Achille Leone Occhetto (; born 3 March 1936) is an Italian political figure. He served as the last secretary-general of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) between 1988 and 1991, and the first leader of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), the p ...

(born 1936), Italian politician *

Achille Peretti Achille Peretti (13 June 1911 – 14 April 1983), was a French politician. Peretti was born in Ajaccio. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the French resistance, and was in charge of security of Charles de Gaulle's government in Al ...

(1911–1983), French politician *

Achille Serra (politician) Achille Serra (born 16 October 1941 in Rome) is an Italian policeman, official and politician. He was prefect of Ancona, Palermo, Florence and Rome. He was a deputy of Forza Italia in Italy during the thirteenth legislature, after which he resi ...

(born 1941), Italian politician * Achille Starace (1889–1945), Italian fascist leader before and during World War II

Religious figures

* Achille Grassi (1456–1523), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal *

Achille Gagliardi Achille Gagliardi (1537–1607) was a Jesuit ascetic writer and spiritual director in the Ignatian tradition. Life Gagliardi was born at Padua, Italy. After a brilliant career at the University of Padua he entered the Society of Jesus in 1559 ...

(1537–1607), Italian ascetic writer and Jesuit * Achille Glorieux (1910–1999), French Catholic prelate, archbishop and diplomat *

Achille Harlay de Sancy Achille de Harlay de Sancy, Oratory of Jesus, CO (1581, Paris26 November 1646), the son of Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy, was a French people, French diplomat and intellectual who was noted as a linguist and Orientalism, orientalist. He ente ...

(1581–1646), French diplomat, linguist, orientalist and Catholic bishop *

Achille Liénart Achille Liénart (; 7 February 1884—15 February 1973) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lille from 1928 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1930. Biography Born in Lille to a bourgeois ...

(1884–1973), French Catholic cardinal and bishop * Achille d'Étampes de Valençay (1593–1646), French military leader, a Knight of Malta and Catholic cardinal

Scientists and mathematicians

* Achille Allier (1807–1836), French archaeologist, writer and art critic * Achille Costa (1823–1899), Italian entomologist * Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse (1817–1881), French geologist and mineralogist * Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour (1734–1794), French astronomer and mathematician * Achille Marie Gaston Floquet (1847–1920), French mathematician * Achille Gerste (1854–1920), Belgian Catholic priest, Jesuit, philologist and linguist * Achille Guenée (1809–1880), French entomologist and lawyer * Achille Loria (1857–1943), Italian Jewish political economist and sociologist * A. E. Meeussen (1912–1978), Belgian philologist * Achille Müntz (1846–1917), French agricultural chemist * Achille Ouy (1889–1959), French philosopher and sociologist * Achille Urbain (1884–1957), French biologist * Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865), French zoologist

Sportsmen

* Achille Anani (born 1994), Ivorian footballer playing in France * Achille Campion (born 1990), French footballer * Achille Compagnoni (1914–2009), Italian mountaineer and skier * Achille Coser (born 1982), Italian football goalkeeper * Achille Emaná (born 1982), Cameroonian footballer * Achille Fould (bobsleigh) (1919–1949), French bobsledder * Achille Varzi (1904–1948), Italian Grand Prix race car driver

Other

* Achille Ballière (1840–1905), French architect * Achille Boitel (died 1944), French businessman and Nazi collaborator * Achille Jubinal (1810–1875), French medievalist * Achille Leclère (1785–1853), French architect and teacher of architecture * Achille Majeroni (1881–1964), Italian film actor * Achille Maramotti (1927–2005), Italian fashion designer and founder of Max Mara, an Italian fashion company * Achille Marozzo (1484–1553), Italian fencing master * Achille Mbembe (born 1957), Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist * Achille Millien (1838–1927), French poet and folklorist * Achille Millo, stage name of Italian actor, voice actor and stage director Achille Scognamillo (1922–2006) * Prince Achille Murat (1801–1847), eldest son of Joachim Murat * Achille St. Onge (1913–1978), American publisher of miniature books * Achille Zavatta (1915–1993), French clown, artist and circus operator

Fictional characters

* Achille Poirot, the "brother" of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot (actually Hercule in disguise) in the novel ''The Big Four'' * the title character of ''Achille Talon'', a comic book series * the title character of ''Achille in Sciro'', a 1737 opera * Rodrigue Achille Fraldarius, a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses

References

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