Amédée is a French masculine forename. Notable people with the forename include:

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* Amédée, stage name of

Philippe de Chérisey Philippe Louis Henri Marie de Chérisey, 9th marquess de Chérisey (13 February 1923 – 17 July 1985) was a French writer, radio humorist, surrealist and supporting actor (using the stage name Amédée). He is best known for his creation ...

(1923-1985), French writer, radio humorist, surrealist and actor * Amédée Artus (1815-1892), French conductor and composer *

Amédée Baillot de Guerville Amédée Baillot de Guerville, or A.B. de Guerville (1869–1913), was a free-lance war correspondent, editor, and commercial agent, most frequently cited for his travel writing. He was best known in his day for his staunch defense of Japan in ...

(1869–1913), French war correspondent *

Amédée de Béjarry Amédée de Béjarry (30 June 1840 - 1 October 1916) was a French politician. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1886 to 1916, representing Vendée Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western ...

(1840-1916), French politician * Amédée Bollée (1844-1917), French bellfounder and inventor * Amédée Borrel (1867-1936), French biologist * Amédée Courbet (1827-1885), French army admiral * Amédée Dechambre (1812-1886), French physician *

Amédée Despans-Cubières General Amédée Louis de Cubières (4 March 1786, Paris – 6 August 1853, Paris), known as Despans-Cubières, was a French general and politician. Life Youth He was the illegitimate son of marquis Louis Pierre de Cubières (page to Louis XV a ...

(1786-1853), French army general *

Amédée Domenech Amédée Domenech (May 3, 1933, Narbonne – September 21, 2003 Brive-la-Gaillarde) was a French rugby union prop. He played for RC Vichy between 1954 and 1955. After one year he moved to CA Brive and helped the club to gain promotion to the f ...

(1933-2003), French rugby union player and politician *

Amédée Dumontpallier Victor Alphonse Amédée Dumontpallier (8 March 1826, Honfleur – 13 January 1899, Paris) was a French gynecologist best known for his studies of hypnotism and metalloscopy (metallotherapy). In 1857 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, ...

(1826-1899), French gynecologist *

Amédée Dunois Amédée Dunois (16 December 1878 – March 1945) was a French lawyer, journalist and politician. Life Amédée Catonné was born in Moulins-Engilbert, Nièvre on 16 December 1878. He came from a respectable family. He was a brilliant student, ...

(1878-1945), French lawyer, journalist, politician *

Amédée Faure Amédée Faure or Victor-Amédée Faure (1801–1878) was a French painter and portraitist. His portrait subjects include the brothers Louis-Charles, Count of Beaujolais and Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, and he also specialised in histor ...

(1801-1878), French painter * Amédée Fengarol (1905-1951), French politician * Amédée E. Forget (1847-1923), Canadian lawyer, civil servant, politician * Amédée Forestier (1854 – 1930), French-British artist * Amédée Fournier (1912-1992), French bicycle racer *

Amédée Gaboury Amédée Gaboury (March 26, 1838 – June 11, 1912) was a physician and political figure in Quebec. He represented Laval in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1883 to 1884 as a Liberal. He was born in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Cana ...

(1838-1912), Canadian physician and politician * Amédée Galzin (1853-1925), French gynecologist * Amédée Geoffrion (1867-1935), Canadian lawyer and politician * Amédée Gibaud (1885-1957), French chess player * Amédée Girod de l'Ain (1781-1847), French lawyer and politician * Amédée Gordini (1899-1979), Italian-born French race car driver and manufacturer * Amédée Gosselin (1863-1941), Canadian historian, Roman Catholic priest * Amédée Gratton (?-?), Léonidas Gratton's father and husband of Hélène Foisy. *

Amédée Guillemin Amédée Guillemin (born 5 July 1826 in Pierre-de-Bresse, died 2 January 1893 in Pierre-de-Bresse, France) was a French science writer and a journalist. Guillemin started his studies at Beaune college before taking his final degree in Paris. Fr ...

(1826-1893), French science writer and journalist * Amédée Jacques (1813-1865), French-Argentine pedagogue *

Amédée de Jallais Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier. Biography The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon then entered in th ...

(1826-1909), French playwright, opera librettist *

Amédée Joullin Amédée Joullin (3 June 1862, in San Francisco – 3 February 1917, in San Francisco) was a French American painter whose work centered on the landscapes of California and on Native Americans. Biography He was born in San Francisco to French ...

(1862–1917), French-American painter *

Amédée Emmanuel François Laharpe Amédée Emmanuel François Laharpe (born de La Harpe, 27 September 1754 – 8 May 1796) was a Swiss nobleman and military officer who served as a volunteer in the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars. He rose to become a general of ...

(1754-1796), French army general * Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770-1845), French entomologist *

Amédée Lynen Amédée Ernest Lynen (1852–1938), who often signed his works Am. Lynen, was a Belgian painter, illustrator and writer. In 1880, he was one of the founders of the artistic group L'Essor (artist group), L'Essor after it had separated from the aca ...

(1852–1938), Belgian painter * Amédée Maingard (1918 - 1981), Mauritius-born French military personnel * Amédée Mannheim (1831-1906), French mathematician *

Amédée Melanson Amédée Raymond Melanson (November 9, 1882 – May 8, 1930) was a Canadian physician and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Yarmouth County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1920 to 1925 as a Liberal member. Early li ...

(1882-1930), Canadian politician * Amédée Méreaux (1802-1874), French musicologist, pianist, composer * Amédée Ozenfant (1886-1966), French painter * Amédée de Noé (1818-1879), French caricaturist, lithographer *

Amédée Papineau Louis-Joseph-Amédée Papineau, or Amédée Papineau (1819–1903) was a writer and Québecois patriot and present at the meeting at which the was founded. He was the eldest son of Louis-Joseph Papineau, a leader in the Rebellions of 1837, Rebe ...

(1819-1903), Canadian writer *

Amédée Pichot Joseph Jean-Baptiste Marie Charles Amédée Pichot (3 November 1795 – 12 February 1877) was a French historian and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent tar ...

(1795-1877), French historian and translator *

Amédée Pofey Amédée Pofey or Amedeo Buffa (also Buffedus and Buffois) in the contemporary sources, was a knight and lord of the Latin Empire and of the Kingdom of Thessalonica. Originally from Cologny, he became constable of the Kingdom of Thessalonica after ...

, 13th-century lord and knight *

Amédée Wilfrid Proulx Amédée Wilfrid Proulx (August 31, 1932 – November 22, 1993) was an American Bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Portland in the state of Maine from 1975 to 1993. Biography Born in Sanford, Maine of F ...

(1932-1993), American Roman Catholic bishop *

Amédée Rolland Amédée Rolland (22 January 1914 – 9 June 2000) was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1948 Tour de France The 1948 Tour de France was the 35th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 30 June to 25 July 1948. It consisted ...

(1914-2000), French racing cyclist *

Amédée Ronzel Amédée Ronzel (8 January 1909 – 13 April 1973) was a French bobsledder. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of ninth in the four-man event at St. Moritz in 1948 Events January * January 1 ** The Genera ...

(1909-?), French bobsledder * Amédée Thierry (1797-1873), French journalist and historian * Amédée Thubé (1884-1941), French sailor * Amédée Tremblay (1876-1949), Canadian organist, composer *

Amédée Trichard Amédée Trichard (8 April 1899 – 1950) was a French long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; ...

, French long-distance runner * Amédée Turner (born 1929), British barrister *

Jean-Amédée Gibert Jean-Amadée Gibert (January 28, 1869, Marseille – 1945, Marseille), was a French painter, architect and curator. Biography He was a pupil of Antoine Dominique Magaud. In 1890, he won a painting prize in Marseille which allowed him to st ...

(1869–1945), French painter, architect, and curator

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