Arts and Music

• Pierre Auguste Renoir (born 1841, died 1919)

  French painter.

  • Painted Les Grands Boulevards (see list of Impressionist Artists)
• Pierre de la Rue (died 1518)
  • Composer of masses and sacred music (see list of Composers)

Leadership

• Pierre N. Leval

  American judge.

  • Circuit Judge, Second Circuit Court (see list of Judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeals)
• Pierre Joseph Proudhon (born 1809, died 1865)

  French journalist and politician.

  • Regarded as the father of anarchism (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)

Miscellaneous

• Pierre Cardin
  • French fashion designer (see list of Fashion Designers)
• Pierre Laval (born 1883, died 1945)

  French politician. Member of the French Vichy government who collaborated with the Nazis in World War II; executed for treason.

  • 1931 Time Magazine Man of the Year (see list of Time Magazine's Man of the Year Honorees)

Science and Philosophy

• Pierre Curie (born 1859, died 1906)

  French physicist known for research on radiation, conducted jointly with his wife, Marie.

  • 1903 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with Marie Curie and Antoine Henri Becquerel (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Pierre de Fermat (born 1601, died 1665)

  French mathematician.

  • Considered by some to be the inventor of differential calculus (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)
• Pierre Simon de Laplace (born 1749, died 1827)

  French astronomer and mathematician.

  • Discovered several principles regarding the orbits of heavenly bodies (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)
• Pierre J. Thuot (born 1955)

  American astronaut.

  • Astronaut on Atlantis (1990), Endeavor (1992), Columbia (1994) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)

Sports

• Pierre Pilote

  Hockey player.

  • 1963-65 James Norris Memorial Trophy winner (see list of J. Norris Memorial Trophy Winners)
• Pierre Quinon

  French athlete.

  • 1984 Olympic track and field gold medal winner for Pole Vault (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Miscellaneous Field Events)

Stage and Screen

• Pierre Monteux (born 1875, died 1964)

  French-born American conductor.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording (see list of Recording Personalites with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

The Literary World

• Pierre Abelard (born 1079, died 1142)

  French philosopher, theologian and poet.

  • Wrote the autobiography Historia calamitatum (''''History of My Troubles'''') (see list of Ancient and Medieval Writers)
• Pierre Boulle (born 1912)

  French novelist.

  • Wrote Planet of the Apes (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)
• Pierre Corneille (born 1606, died 1684)

  French playwright.

  • Wrote The Cid (see list of Writers of the 17th Century)
• Pierre de Ronsard (born 1524, died 1585)

  French poet.

  • Wrote Odes (see list of Writers of the 16th Century)