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Philippe Armand
Philippe Armand is a French-American? No—Philippe Armand is a physician-scientist and Chief of the Division of Lymphoma at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Philippe Ascher
Philippe Ascher (1936–2022) was a French neuroscientist who showed that magnesium blocks the NMDA receptor's channel and that glycine acts as its co-agonist, keys to learning and memory mechanisms.
Philippe Baptiste
Philippe Baptiste is a French politician serving as Minister of Higher Education, Research and Space, having previously been president and chief executive of the French space agency CNES.
Philippe Barbier
Philippe Barbier was a French organic chemist who performed the first organomagnesium synthesis in 1899; the Barbier reaction is named for him, though his student Victor Grignard alone won the 1912 Nobel Prize.
Philippe Boisse
Philippe Boisse, born in 1955 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French épée fencer and radiologist who won Olympic gold in 1980 and 1984 and three world titles.
Philippe Botteri
Philippe Botteri is a French-born venture capitalist and Partner at Accel in London, best known for early bets on UiPath, DocuSign, and BlaBlaCar since joining Accel in 2011.
Philippe Bouchet
Philippe Bouchet (born 1953) is a French malacologist, professor emeritus at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris; described over 700 mollusc species, led Our Planet Reviewed expeditions, founded MolluscaBase, and won the 2023-2025 Carlo Heip Award. Not the statistician Phil Bouchet.
Philippe Bousso
Philippe Bousso (1971–2026) was a French immunologist who led the Dynamics of Immune Responses laboratory at the Institut Pasteur and pioneered intravital two-photon microscopy of immune cells in living tissue.
Philippe Cattiau
Philippe Cattiau (1892-1962), French fencer from Saint-Malo, foil and épée specialist; eight Olympic medals at five Games 1920-1936, three team golds (foil 1924, 1932; épée 1932), world épée champion.
Philippe Chavrier
Philippe Chavrier is a French cell biologist who leads a research team at Institut Curie in Paris, studying how breast tumor cells invade surrounding tissue through the enzyme MT1-MMP.
Philippe Ciais
Philippe Ciais, born 1966, is a French climate scientist at CEA's LSCE near Paris who studies the global carbon cycle, combining atmospheric observations with modeling to track carbon sinks.
Philippe Clement
Philippe Clement, born 1974 in Antwerpen, is a Belgian football manager and former Belgium international defender (38 caps). He won Belgian titles with Genk and Club Brugge, managed Monaco and Rangers, and now manages Norwich City.
Philippe Coumel
Philippe Coumel (1935–2004) was a French cardiologist and clinical electrophysiologist who spent his career at Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris, introducing programmed electrical stimulation, the triangle of arrhythmogenesis, and Coumel's law.
Philippe Cousteau
Philippe Cousteau, also known as Philippe Pierre Cousteau, is an American ocean advocate and television producer born in 1980, son of Philippe Cousteau Sr. and grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who co-founded EarthEcho International.
Philippe Coutinho
Philippe Coutinho is a Brazilian attacking midfielder, born in 1992, who Barcelona signed from Liverpool for up to £142m in 2018 and who now plays for Santos.
Philippe d'Alegambe
Philippe d'Alegambe (1592–1652) was a Belgian Jesuit historiographer, born in Brussels and died in Rome, who compiled the Bibliotheca scriptorum Societatis Iesu of 1643, the principal bibliography of Jesuit writings.
Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), Brussels-born French Baroque painter, court portraitist of Richelieu and Louis XIII, founding member of the 1648 Royal Academy, and leading painter of Jansenist Port-Royal.
Philippe de Longvilliers de Poincy
Philippe de Longvilliers de Poincy (1584–1660) was a French nobleman and Order of Malta bailiff who governed Saint-Christophe from 1639 and pioneered commercial sugar production in the Antilles.
Philippe de Rothschild
Baron Philippe de Rothschild (1902-1988), also known as Philippe Georges de Rothschild, ran Château Mouton Rothschild from 1922, introduced chateau bottling in 1924, created Mouton Cadet, and won Mouton's 1973 elevation to First Growth.
Philippe Dufour
Philippe Dufour, born 1948 in Le Sentier, Switzerland, is an independent watchmaker known for the Duality, the first wristwatch with a double escapement, and the Simplicity.
Philippe Ermenault
Philippe Ermenault (born 1969, Flixecourt) is a French track cyclist, 1996 Olympic team pursuit champion and individual pursuit silver medalist, and world individual pursuit champion 1997 and 1998.
Philippe Flajolet
Philippe Flajolet (1948–2011) was a French computer scientist who spent his career at INRIA, founded analytic combinatorics, and pioneered probabilistic counting algorithms such as HyperLogLog.
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel, born 1958 in Paris, is a French physician-geneticist who identified the first diabetes gene, glucokinase, and the obesity gene MC4R, and is a professor at Imperial College London.
Philippe Funfrock
Philippe Funfrock is a French biotechnology executive who co-founded ProteoGenix, an antibody discovery and engineering company in Schiltigheim near Strasbourg, registered in 2003; in 2024 he faced forgery charges over COVID-19 state aid.
Philippe Gabríel Steg
Philippe Gabriel Steg, also published as P. Gabriel Steg, is a French interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist who is chief of cardiology at Hôpital Bichat in Paris.
Philippe Généreux
Philippe Généreux is a Canadian interventional cardiologist at Morristown Medical Center, New Jersey, whose EARLY TAVR trial showed early valve replacement halves risk in asymptomatic aortic stenosis.
Philippe Ghosez
Philippe Ghosez, born 1969 in Tournai, Belgium, is a Belgian condensed-matter physicist and professor at the University of Liège working on the first-principles theory of ferroelectric oxide perovskites.
Philippe Goy
Philippe Goy is a French condensed-matter physicist and CNRS researcher at ENS Paris whose millimeter-wave cavities enabled the 1983 experiments cited in Serge Haroche's 2012 Nobel Prize.
Philippe Grangier
Philippe Grangier, born in 1957, is a French CNRS physicist at the Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau, known for single-photon experiments, Schrödinger cat states, and continuous-variable quantum key distribution.
Philippe Gros
Philippe Gros, born 1956 in France, is a Canadian molecular geneticist at McGill University who discovered disease genes behind immunodeficiency and spina bifida and won the Killam Prize.