Another one in First Names First! A chronological list of persons with their first names here. Your “task” is to pick one, follow the Wikipedia link and see what if anything the person in question could contribute your life with. Spend a couple of minutes of your life with this. Lives lived have all something worthwhile to tell us – let them! This time it’s all about the French name Pierre, also included names starting with Pierre.
Pierre Pithou* lawyer/scholar – Troyes, Kingdom of France (1539)
Pierre Fauchard* dentist/credited as being the “father of modern dentistry” – Saint-Denis-de-Gastines, Kingdom of France (1679)
Pierre de Rigaud* colonial governor of New France – Quebec, New France (1698)
Pierre-Joseph Desault* anatomist/surgeon – Vouhenans, Kingdom of France (1738)
Pierre-Simon Laplace* scholar – Beaumont-en-Auge, Kingdom of France (1749)
Pierre Laromiguière* philosopher – Aveyron, Kingdom of France (1756)
Pierre André Latreille* zoologist/entomologist – Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, Kingdom of France (1762)
Pierre Toussaint* Haitian-American hairdresser/philanthropist/to America as a slave at age 20 - Saint-Marc, Artibonite, Saint-Domingue (1766)
Pierre Rode* violinist/ composer - Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (1774)
Pierre Millière* pharmacist/ entomologist – Saint-Jean-de-Losne, French Empire (1811)
Pierre Lallement* inventor of the pedal bicycle – Nancy, Kingdom of France (1843)
Pierre Loti* (b Louis Marie-Julien Viaud) naval officer/novelist - Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Kingdom of France 1850)
Pierre Curie* physicist/N – Paris, French Empire (The Second French Empire) (1859)
Pierre de Coubertin* educator/historian/founder of the International Olympic Committee – Paris, French Empire (1863)
Pierre Bonnard* painter/ illustrator/printmaker – Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, French Empire (1867)
Pierre Gilliard* academic/author – Vaud, Switzerland (1879)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin* philosopher/priest/paleontologist - Orcines, Auvergne, France (French Third Republic) (1881) pic
Pierre Laval* politician – Chateldon, France (1883)
Pierre Dansereau* ecologist - Outremont, QC Canada (1911)
Pierre Trudeau* politician/statesman – Montreal, QC Canada (1919)
Pierre Salinger* journalist/ author/politician - San Francisco, CA USA (1925)
Pierre Henry* composer – Paris, France (1927)
Pierre “Peyo” Culliford* cartoonist/creator of The Smurffs – Brussels, Belgium (1928)
Pierre Schori* politician/diplomat – Norrköping, Sweden (1938)
Pierre Nanterme* business executive – Lyon, France (French Fifth Republic) (1959)
Pierre Nkurunziza* politician/P - Bujumbura, Burundi (1964)
Pierre Niney* actor – Boulogne-Billancourt, France (1989)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang* football player - Laval, France (1989)
Pierre-Ambroise Bosse* middle-distance runner/WC – Nantes, France (1992)
Pierre Engvall* hockey player – Ljungby, Sweden (1998)
Pierre-Luc Dubois* hockey player – Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, QC Canada (1998)
Updated 26.4.2023