Top Celebrity Names Starting With Henri

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   Henri Emmanuelli

   Age 67 Male
   

   Politician, Socialist, Deputy

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   Henri Emmanuelli is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS), he has been deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981, from 1986 to 1997 and since 2000.

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   Henri Bergson

   1859 - 1941 Male
   

   Philosopher

   
   

   Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented".… read more

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   Henri Dutilleux

   Age 96 Male
   

   Composer

   
   

   Henri Dutilleux) is a French composer who was most active in the second half of the 20th century. His work follows in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own and has garnered international acclaim.… read more

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   Henri Toivonen

   1956 - 1986 Male
   

   Finnish Rally Driver

   
   

   Henri Pauli Toivonen was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli Toivonen, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his brother, Harri Toivonen, became a professional circuit racer. Toivonen's first World Rally Championship victory came with a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus at the 1980 Lombard RAC Rally in Great Britain, just after his 24th birthday.… read more

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   Henri Poincaré

   1854 - 1912 Male
   

   Mathematician and Physicist

   
   

   Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.… read more

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   Henri Cartier-Bresson

   1908 - 2004 Male
   

   Photographer, Journalist, Writer

   
   

   Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed.… read more

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   Henri Matisse

   1869 - 1954 Male
   

   Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Drawing

   
   
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   Henri Desgrange

   1865 - 1940 Male
   

   Cyclist, Sports Person, Organizer

   
   

   Henri Desgrange was a French bicycle racer and sports journalist. He set 12 world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 kilometres on 11 May 1893. He was the first organiser of the Tour de France.… read more

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   Henri Cleutin

   1515 - 1566 Male
   

   Soldier and Diplomat

   
   

   Henri Cleutin, seigneur d'Oisel et de Villeparisis, was the representative of France in Scotland from 1546 to 1560, a Gentleman of the Chamber of the King of France, and a diplomat in Rome 1564-1566 during the French Wars of Religion.… read more

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    Henri L'Estrange

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    Australian Funambulist and Balloonist.

    
    

    Henri L'Estrange, known as the Australian Blondin, was an Australian successful funambulist and accident prone aeronautical balloonist. Modelling himself on the famous French wire-walker Charles Blondin, L'Estrange performed a number of tightrope walks in the 1870s, culminating in three walks across Sydney's Middle Harbour in 1877. He remains the only tightrope performer ever to have walked across a part of Sydney Harbour.… read more

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    Henri Tomasi

    1901 - 1971 Male
    

    Composer, Conductor, Musician

    
    

    Henri Tomasi was a French classical composer and conductor.

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    Henri Bertini

    1798 - 1876 Male
    

    Composer, Pianist, Musician

    
    

    Henri Jérôme Bertini was a French classical composer and pianist.

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    Henri Konan Bédié

    Age 78 Male
    

    Politician, Ambassador, Diplomat

    
    

    Aimé Henri Konan Bédié is an Ivorian politician. He was President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999, and he is currently the President of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire - African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA).… read more

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    Henri Pélissier

    1889 - 1935 Male
    

    Road Racing Cyclist

    
    

    Henri Pélissier was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France. In addition to his 29 career victories, he was known for his long-standing feud with Tour founder Henri Desgrange and for protesting against the conditions endured by riders in the early years of the Tour. He was killed by his lover with the gun that his wife had used to commit suicide.… read more

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    Henri Duponchel

    1794 - 1868 Male
    

    Theatre Designer and Director

    
    

    Henri Duponchel was in turn a French architect, interior designer, costume designer, stage designer, stage director, managing director of the Paris Opera, and a silversmith. He has often been confused with Charles-Edmond Duponchel, a contemporary who also lived and worked in Paris.… read more

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    Henri de Contenson

    Age 86 Male
    

    Archaeologist

    
    

    Henri de Contenson, is a French Archaeologist and was Research Director at CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research. A student of André Parrot, Raymond Lantier and André Leroi-Gourhan, he was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in the Middle East from 1951 to 1976. The results of his work are documented in numerous publications.… read more

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    Henri Salvador

    1917 - 2008 Male
    

    Singer, Musician

    
    

    Henri Salvador was a French Caribbean singer.

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    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    1864 - 1901 Male
    

    Painter, Printmaker, Draftsman

    
    

    Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.… read more

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    Henri Christophe

    1767 - 1820 Male
    

    Politician, King, President

    
    

    Henri Christophe (6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820) was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution, which succeeded in gaining independence from France in 1804. On 17 February 1807, after the creation of a separate nation in the north of Haiti, Christophe was elected President of the State of Haiti. On 26 March 1811, he was proclaimed Henry I, King of Haïti. He is also known for constructing the Citadelle Laferrière.… read more

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    Henri Pirenne

    1862 - 1935 Male
    

    Historian

    
    

    Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero. He also became prominent in the nonviolent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I.… read more

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    Henri Lansbury

    Age 21 Male
    

    Footballer

    
    

    Henri George Lansbury is an English footballer who plays for West Ham United, on loan from Arsenal.

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    Henri Temianka

    1906 - 1992 Male
    

    Virtuoso, Violinist, Conductor

    
    

    Henri Temianka was a virtuoso violinist, conductor, author and music educator.

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    Henri Camara

    Age 35 Male
    

    Footballer

    
    

    Henri Camara is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a striker for Greek Superleague side Panetolikos.