Poulet is a French surname, meaning

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Anne Poulet Anne Litle Poulet (born March 20, 1942) is a retired American art historian. Poulet is an expert in the area of French art, particularly sculpture. In her career, she organized two major monographic exhibitions on the French sculptors Clodio ...

(born 1942), American art historian *

Gaston Poulet Gaston Poulet (10 April 1892 – 14 April 1974) was a French violinist and conductor. He played an important part in the diffusion of the contemporary music of the first half of the 20th century. His son Gérard Poulet, born in 1938, is also a vio ...

(1892–1974), French violinist and conductor *

Georges Poulet Georges Poulet (; 29 November 1902 – 31 December 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Best known for his four-volume work ''Studies in Human Time'', Poulet rejected formalist approaches to literary criticism ...

(1902–1991), Belgian literary critic * J. Poulet (fl. 1811–1818), English cricketer *

Olivia Poulet Olivia Poulet (born 9 July 1978) is an English actress. Early life Poulet was born on 9 July 1978 in south-west London and attended Putney High School. She studied drama at the University of Manchester. Career After her graduation in 2001, Po ...

(born 1978), English actress and screenwriter *

Paul Poulet Paul Poulet (1887–1946) was a self-taught Belgian mathematician who made several important contributions to number theory, including the discovery of sociable numbers in 1918. He is also remembered for calculating the pseudoprimes to base two, f ...

(1887–1946), Belgian mathematician *

Quentin Poulet Quentin Poulet (fl. 1477–1506) was a Burgundian Catholic priest, known as a scribe, illuminator, and librarian, from Lille.Michael Van Cleave Alexander, ''The First of the Tudors: a study of Henry VII and his reign'' (1981), p. 160Google Books ...

(fl. 1477–1506), Burgundian Catholic priest, scribe, illuminator, and librarian *

Robert Poulet Robert Poulet (4 September 1893 – 6 October 1989) was a Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist. Politically he was a Maurras-inspired integral nationalist who became associated with a collaborationist newspaper during the occupation o ...

(1893–1989), Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist *

William Poulet (publisher) William Poulet was the pseudonym used by Jean-Paul Wayenborgh to write his History of Spectacles "''Die Brille''". This history was the first systematic presentation and description of more than 2000 historical spectacles from the Zeiss Collection ...

, pseudonym used by Jean-Paul Wayenborgh to write his History of Spectacles "Die Brille" *

Auguste Poulet-Malassis Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (16 March 1825 – 11 February 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire. Biography In his short six ...

(1825–1878), French printer and publisher

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