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Pierre Celis
Pierre Celis (1925–2011) was a Belgian brewer who revived the witbier style in Hoegaarden by opening a brewery there in 1966, later founding Celis Brewery in Austin, Texas.
Pierre Cérésole
Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945) was a Swiss engineer from Lausanne who became a radical pacifist and Quaker, and founded Service Civil International, whose first volunteer workcamp rebuilt the destroyed village of Esnes near Verdun in 1920.
Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon (1931–2026) was a French molecular biologist and biochemist who discovered the nucleosome, split genes, and enhancers, cloned nuclear hormone receptors, and won the Lasker Award.
Pierre Chappuis
Pierre Chappuis (1855–1916) was a Swiss physicist at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures whose gas-thermometer work led to the hydrogen temperature scale in 1884.
Pierre Chareau
Pierre Chareau was a French furniture designer, interior decorator, and architect of the Art Deco and modern movement, best known for the Maison de Verre in Paris, built 1928 to 1932.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, also known as Peter L'Enfant, was a French-born architect and engineer who served in the Continental Army and designed the 1791 plan for Washington, D.C.
Pierre Charron
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) was a French Catholic theologian and moralist, Montaigne's friend and designated heir, whose treatise De la sagesse (1601) set out a naturalistic morality independent of religion.
Pierre Chastellain
Pierre Chastellain, called Arioo by the Hurons, was a French Jesuit priest born in 1606 who served fourteen years as a missionary in Huronia and thirty-four more at Quebec.
Pierre Chen
Pierre Chen (陈泰铭) is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Yageo in 1977 and built it into a global passive components maker through acquisitions, becoming Taiwan's richest person in 2026.
Pierre Chiappori
Pierre Chiappori, also known as Pierre-André Chiappori, is a French economist at Columbia University who founded the collective household model and built the modern economics of matching and marriage markets.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803) was a French artillery officer and writer best known for Les Liaisons dangereuses, the 1782 epistolary novel of seduction and scandal.
Pierre Coffin
Pierre Coffin (Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin), born 1967 in Limoges, is a French animator and director who co-directed Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Minions, Despicable Me 3, and Minions & Monsters, and voices nearly all the Minions in the gibberish language Minionese.
Pierre Coquelin de Lisle
Pierre Coquelin de Lisle (Henri Pierre Coquelin de Lisle, 1900-1980), French sport shooter; 1924 Paris Olympic gold in 50 m small-bore rifle prone with world record 398/400, and 1933 Granada world champion standing.
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) was a French dramatist and lawyer from Rouen whose Le Cid (1637) provoked France's most famous literary quarrel and founded classical French theater.
Pierre Coton
Pierre Coton was a French Jesuit preacher and royal confessor to Henry IV and Louis XIII, born in 1564 and central to the Jesuits' return to France.
Pierre Counihan-Moullier
Pierre Counihan-Moullier (Pierre Moullier, Pierre Joseph Moullier), English actor born 2000 in Lambeth, London; known for Fate: The Winx Saga, Young Vic stage work, and as Oscar Branning in EastEnders from 2025.
Pierre Cousin
Pierre Auguste Cousin (1867–1933) was a French mathematician whose 1895 theorem on functions of several complex variables gave his name to the Cousin problems, still standard in the field.
Pierre Coustant
Pierre Coustant (1654–1721) was a French Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur who edited Hilary of Poitiers and Augustine, defended the Maurist editions against Germon, and published the first volume of the papal letters in 1721.
Pierre Cuillier-Perron
Pierre Cuillier-Perron (पियरे क्यूलिये पेरोन), born Pierre Cuillier, was a French soldier of fortune who commanded Sindhia's Maratha army and administered his northern Indian territories until 1803.
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (1859–1906) was a French physicist who discovered piezoelectricity, formulated Curie's law of magnetism, and shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel.
Pierre D. Delmas
Pierre D. Delmas, also published as P. D. Delmas, was a French rheumatologist and bone researcher (1950–2008) at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, known for bone turnover markers and co-founding the International Osteoporosis Foundation.
Pierre d'Ailly
Pierre d'Ailly, Latin Petrus de Alliaco (c. 1350–1420), was a French theologian, cardinal, and chancellor of the University of Paris who helped end the Western Schism at the Council of Constance.
Pierre de Bérulle
Pierre de Bérulle (1575–1629) was a French cardinal who founded the French Oratory in 1611, introduced reformed Carmelites to France, and originated the French School of Spirituality.
Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937), French educator and historian, founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894 and revived the Olympic Games (Athens 1896); IOC president 1896-1925, creator of Olympic rituals, motto and flag, died in Geneva.
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) was a French lawyer in Toulouse who did mathematics as an amateur, founding modern number theory and probability, and stating Fermat's Last Theorem.
Pierre de Maere
Pierre de Maere (Pierre de Maere d'Aertrycke), Belgian pop singer born 2001 in Uccle; breakthrough hit "Un jour je marierai un ange", Victoires de la musique revelation 2023, albums Regarde-moi (2023) and Ave de Maere (2026).
Pierre de Marca
Pierre de Marca (1594–1662) was a Béarnese magistrate and royal diplomat who became Archbishop of Toulouse and then Paris, and whose Marca hispanica shaped the Treaty of the Pyrenees.
Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial (1698-1778), Canadian-born officer of the troupes de la Marine, governor of Louisiana 1743-1753, and last governor general of New France 1755-1760, capitulating at Montreal in 1760.
Pierre Delbet
Pierre Louis Ernest Delbet (1861–1957) was a French surgeon and professor of clinical surgery in Paris, best known for promoting magnesium chloride as a wound treatment and cancer-prevention advocate.
Pierre Deligne
Pierre Deligne is a Belgian mathematician in algebraic geometry and number theory, best known for proving the Weil conjectures and winning the Fields Medal and Abel Prize.