first name
First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1).
First or 1st may also refer to:
*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
Arts and media Music
* 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec ...
in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
name
Renatus
Renatus is a first name of Latin origin which means "born again" (natus = born). In Italian, Portuguese and Spanish it exists in masculine and feminine forms: Renato and Renata. In French they have been translated to René and Renée. Renata is ...
.
René is the masculine form of the name (
Renée
Renée (without the accent in non-French speaking countries) is a French/Latin feminine given name.
Renée is the female form of René, with the extra –e making it feminine according to French grammar. The name Renée is the French form of t ...
being the feminine form). In some non-Francophone countries, however, there exists the habit of giving the name René (sometimes spelled without an accent) to girls as well as boys.
In addition, both forms are used as surnames (family names).
René as a first name given to boys in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
reached its peaks in popularity in 1969 and 1983 when it ranked 256th. Since 1983 its popularity has steadily declined and it ranked 881st in 2016.
René as a first name given to girls in the United States reached its peak in popularity in 1962 when it ranked 306th. The last year for which René was ranked in the top 1000 names given to girls in the United States was 1988.
René II, Viscount of Rohan
René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus.
René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the feminin ...
(1550–1586), his huguenot son
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René Angélil
René Angélil (; January 16, 1942 – January 14, 2016) was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager and singer. He was the manager and husband of singer Celine Dion.
Early life
Angélil was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a father of ...
(1942–2016), Canadian music producer and agent
* Rene Aranda (born 1990), American actress
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René Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (; June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony A ...
(1940–2019), American actor
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René Ballet
René Ballet (1928 – 2 January 2017) was a French journalist, novelist and essayist. A communist, he was an international correspondent for '' L’Humanité''. He was the author of 14 novels and 35 essays, many of which were about Roger Vailland ...
(1928–2017), French journalist, novelist and essayist
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René Barents
René Barents (born 31 December 1951) is a Dutch European Union law scholar. He has been a judge at the General Court since 19 September 2016. He previously served as a judge on the European Union Civil Service Tribunal from 2011 until 2016
Bar ...
(born 1951), Dutch judge and legal scholar
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René Bernards
René Bernards (born 4 January 1953) is a Dutch cancer researcher. He is professor of molecular carcinogenesis at Utrecht University and head of the section of molecular carcinogenesis at the Netherlands Cancer Institute- Antoni van Leeuwenhoekzie ...
(born 1953), Dutch oncologist
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René Binder
René Binder (born 1 January 1992) is an Austrian racing driver. He is the nephew of former Formula One driver Hans Binder, and his father, Franz, was also a racing driver.
Career
Binder was born in Innsbruck. He began his racing career in ...
Rene Capo
Rene Capo (May 9, 1961 – July 6, 2009) was a judoka from the United States who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics. Capo immigrated to the United States from Cuba as a young boy. Though he ...
, Cuban-American judoka
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René Chamussy
René Chamussy (15 December 1936 – 27 October 2016) was a French-Lebanese Jesuit priest and academic administrator. He was the author of several books about Lebanon. He served as the rector of the Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, fro ...
(1936–2016), French-Lebanese Jesuit priest and academic administrator
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René Coty
Jules Gustave René Coty (; 20 March 188222 November 1962) was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president of the Fourth French Republic.
Early life and politics
René Coty was born in Le Havre and studied at th ...
, former president of France
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René Descartes
René Descartes ( or ; ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Ma ...
, French philosopher
* Rene Farrait (born 1967), Puerto Rican singer, member of boy band Menudo
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René Favaloro
René Gerónimo Favaloro (July 12, 1923 – July 29, 2000) was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein.
Early life
Favaloro was born in 1 ...
, Argentine cardiac surgeon
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René Fonck
Colonel René Paul Fonck (27 March 1894 – 18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Entente fighter ace and, when all succeeding aerial conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries are also considered, Fonc ...
, French aviator and most successful pilot in World War I
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René Frégni
René Frégni (born 1947) is a French novelist.
Early life
Frégni was born in 1947 in Marseille.
Career
Frégni owned a restaurant on the main square of Manosque, which he sold after his business associate was arrested for money laundering. He ...
(born 1947), French novelist
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René de Froulay de Tessé
René de Froulay, Comte de Tessé (14 May 1648 – 30 March 1725) was a French soldier and diplomat during the reign of Louis XIV and the 1715-1723 Regency.
Early life
René de Froulay, Comte de Tessé was born at the family home of the Chat ...
(1648–1725), French marshal
* Rene Gagnon, American World War II veteran, raised the American flag during the battle of Iwo Jima
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René Goscinny
René Goscinny (, ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Raised largely in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schoo ...
(1926–1977), French comic book editor and writer
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René Goupil
René Goupil, S.J. (15 May 1608 – 29 September 1642), was a French Jesuit lay missionary (in French "donné", "given" or "one who offers himself") who became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus shortly before his death. He was the first of ...
(1608–1642), Canadian Catholic martyr and saint
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René Guénon
René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (15 November 1886 – 7 January 1951), also known as ''Abdalwâhid Yahiâ'' (; ''ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥiā'') was a French intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having writte ...
(1886–1951), French metaphysician and Sufi initiate
* René Janssen (born 1959), Dutch nanotechnologist
* Rene Kirby, American actor
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René Kollo
René Kollo (born 20 November 1937) is a German operatic tenor, especially known for his Wagnerian Heldentenor roles. He also performed a wide variety of operas and operettas, and made several recordings.
Biography
Born René Kollodzieyski in ...
, German tenor
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René Lamps
René Lamps (5 November 1915 - 8 May 2007) was a French politician. He began his career as a schoolteacher, and he served in the French Resistance during World War II. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1945 to 1958, and from 19 ...
(1915–2007), French politician
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René Lépine
René G. Lépine (born October 23, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist. Lépine was the chairman of Groupe Lépine, a real estate development and investment firm he founded in 1953. He is widely consid ...
, Canadian businessman and real estate developer
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René Lévesque
René Lévesque (; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a Québécois politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to attempt ...
, Canadian journalist and politician, premier of Quebec
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René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and bound ...
, Belgian surrealist painter
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René Marqués
René Marqués (October 4, 1919 – March 22, 1979) was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright.
Early years
Marqués was born, raised and educated in the city of Arecibo. He developed an interest in writing at a young age and was ...
, Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright
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René Mauriès
René Mauriès (16 February 1921 – 23 May 1999Notice on the catalog of the Rene Mederos, Cuban poster artist and graphic designer
* Rene Medvešek, Croatian actor
* René Mornex (1927–2022), French doctor and academic
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René Muñoz
René Muñoz (February 19, 1938 – May 11, 2000) was a Cuban actor and screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico.
He is most remembered for his role in the Spanish film ''Fray Escoba''.
Biography
He was born in Havana, Cuba bu ...
(1938–2000), Cuban actor and scriptwriter
* René Pape, German opera singer
* Rene Plasencia, (born 1973) Florida House of Representatives member
* René Juan Pérez Joglar (born 1978), known professionally as Residente, is a Puerto Rican rapper, writer and filmmaker
* Rene Ranger (born 1986), New Zealand rugby player
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René Rast
René Rast (born 26 October 1986 in Minden) is a German professional racing driver and the 2017, 2019 and 2020 DTM champion. He previously drove for Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler in Formula E from 2019 to 2021 before Audi left the sport at the end o ...
(born 1986), German racing driver
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René Reyes
René Reyes (born February 21, 1978) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder and switch-hitter. He played for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
Career
His only MLB experience came a ...
, American baseball player
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René Robert
René Paul Robert (December 31, 1948 – June 22, 2021) was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, and Col ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
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René Prêtre
René Prêtre (born 1957) is a Swiss pediatric heart surgeon at the University Hospital of Lausanne. He has performed thousands of surgeries on children's hearts.
Early life and education
Prêtre was born into a family of farmers in the count ...
, Swiss pediatric cardiovascular surgeon
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René Reille
Baron René Charles Reille-Soult-Dalmatie (4 February 1835 – 21 November 1898) was a French soldier, industrialist and politician.
He came from a wealthy military family with mining interests in the south of France.
He served in the army until 18 ...
(1835-1898), French soldier, industrialist, politician
* René Rougeau (born 1986), American basketball player for
Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football ...
of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
*René Rozet (1858–1939), French sculptor
*Rene Russo, American actress
*René Simard, Canadian singer
*René Steinke, German actor
*René Thom, French mathematician
*René Toribio (1912–1990), Guadeloupean politician
*René Vydarený, Slovakian Ice Hockey Player
*René Villa, Costa Rican singer
The name was also given to the French Cafe owner and war hero René Artois in popular British TV series 'Allo 'Allo.
Persons with this surname
*Denise René (1919–2012), French art dealer
*France-Albert René (1935–2019), second President of Seychelles
*Murder of Lisa Rene, Lisa Rene (1978–1994), American murder victim
*Mélanie René (born 1990), Swiss singer
*Wendy Rene (1947–2014), American soul singer and songwriter
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...