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Philippe Guerrier
Philippe Guerrier (1757–1845) was a Haitian career officer and independence veteran who served as President of Haiti from May 1844 until his death in office in April 1845.
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest is a French physicist and chemist at the University of Chicago, known for pioneering work on colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dot doping, and infrared detection.
Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman (1906–1979), Latvian-born American portrait photographer; 101 LIFE covers, Dalí Atomicus, jumpology, Einstein-assisted 1940 emigration, first ASMP president.
Philippe Horvath
Philippe Horvath, born 1970, is a French biologist at the food company Danisco who gave the first experimental proof that CRISPR is a bacterial immune system.
Philippe Houvion
Philippe Houvion, French pole vaulter born 1957 in Briey, held the men's pole vault world record at 5.77 m (Paris, 17 July 1980) and placed fourth at the 1980 Moscow Olympics; son and athlete of Maurice Houvion, Paris UC club.
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640-1701), called Monsieur, younger brother of Louis XIV, founder of the Orléans line; victor at Cassel 1677, excluded from politics, father of the regent Philippe II.
Philippe I. H. Bastiaens
Philippe I. H. Bastiaens was a Dutch cell biologist who directed systemic cell biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund until his death in 2025.
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, was the French prince who served as regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723. He shifted French culture back to Paris.
Philippe Jeannol
Philippe Jeannol, born 1958 in Nancy, French defender; AS Nancy Lorraine and Paris Saint-Germain; Coupe de France 1978, French champion 1986, Olympic football gold 1984; one France cap (1986, USSR).
Philippe Kahn
Philippe Kahn is a French-born software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded and led Borland, maker of Turbo Pascal, until 1995, then pioneered the camera phone.
Philippe Katerine
Philippe Katerine, born Philippe Blanchard in 1968, is a French singer-songwriter, actor, and visual artist whose eccentric pop-chanson made him a cult figure in the 1990s.
Philippe Kourilsky
Philippe Kourilsky, born in 1942, is a French immunologist and genetic engineer who held the Collège de France chair of molecular immunology from 1998 to 2012.
Philippe Labbe
Philippe Labbe (1607–1667) was a French Jesuit theologian and prolific scholar, born at Bourges, who wrote on church councils, chronology, geography, and bibliography, and popularized the term "incunable."
Philippe Laffont
Philippe Laffont is a hedge fund manager who founded technology-focused Coatue Management in 1999, a former Tiger Management analyst whose firm grew to about $90 billion.
Philippe Lalanne
Philippe Lalanne is a French CNRS physicist and nanophotonics researcher at the Institut d'Optique near Bordeaux, known for his microscopic theory of extraordinary optical transmission.
Philippe Lavil
Philippe Lavil, born Philippe Durand de La Villejégu du Fresnay, is a French singer from Martinique whose Antillean-tinged hits include "Il tape sur des bambous" and "Kolé séré".
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902-1947), French general known as Leclerc, Free French commander of the 2nd Armored Division; liberated Paris and Strasbourg in 1944, signed Japan's surrender, posthumous Marshal of France 1952.
Philippe Lemey
Philippe Lemey, born 1977 in Kortrijk, is a Belgian computational biologist and professor at KU Leuven's Rega Institute, known for reconstructing viral spread from genetic sequences and for contributions to the BEAST software.
Philippe Mexès
Philippe Mexès, born 1982 in Toulouse, French centre-back for Auxerre, AS Roma (2004–2011), and AC Milan (2011–2016); 29 France caps, 2003 Confederations Cup winner, later a Ligue 1+ consultant.
Philippe Moreau
Philippe Moreau is a French hematologist, University Professor of Clinical Hematology at the University of Nantes, best known as principal investigator of the CASSIOPEIA and MajesTEC-1 multiple myeloma trials.
Philippe Morice
Philippe Morice is a French gynecological oncology surgeon at Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, known for fertility preservation and conservative surgery in ovarian and cervical cancer.
Philippe Morillon
Philippe Morillon (1935-2026), French five-star general, commanded UNPROFOR in Bosnia 1992-1993 and pledged protection to besieged Srebrenica in March 1993; later a UDF member of the European Parliament 1999-2009.
Philippe Nozières
Philippe Nozières (1932–2022) was a French theoretical physicist known for the many-body problem, quantum liquids, and crystal growth, and winner of the Wolf Prize and CNRS Gold Medal.
Philippe of Belgium
Philippe (Philippe Léopold Louis Marie), King of the Belgians since 21 July 2013, seventh monarch of Belgium, eldest son of Albert II; former fighter pilot and leader of 85 Belgian economic missions.
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Marshal of France and hero of Verdun, headed the collaborationist Vichy regime 1940-1944, was condemned for treason in 1945, reprieved, and died imprisoned on the île d'Yeu.
Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit (born 1949) is a French high-wire artist who made eight crossings on an illegally rigged cable between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers on 7 August 1974, 1,350 feet up, for about 45 minutes without a net; subject of Man on Wire and The Walk.
Philippe Pîbarot
Philippe Pibarot is a Canadian cardiovascular researcher, professor at Université Laval, and Canada Research Chair in Cardiac Valvular Diseases, known for work on aortic stenosis and prosthetic heart valves.
Philippe Pierre
Philippe Pierre is a French cell biologist and immunologist who studies dendritic cells and innate immunity at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) in Marseille, and is known for the SUnSET, SunRiSE, and Scenith flow-cytometry methods.
Philippe Poulin
Philippe Poulin is a French physical chemist at the Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, near Bordeaux, known for colloids, liquid crystals, and carbon nanotube fibers.
Philippe Ravaud
Philippe Ravaud is a French epidemiologist and rheumatologist, professor at Université Paris Cité, who directed the CRESS research center, led the ComPaRe chronic-disease cohort, and studies trial methodology.