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Pierre McGuire
Pierre McGuire, Canadian hockey executive, former NHL coach and scout, and longtime TSN/NBC broadcaster; two Stanley Cups with Pittsburgh, youngest NHL coach at 32 with Hartford, later Ottawa Senators senior VP of player development.
Pierre Mendès France
Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982) was a French Radical Party statesman who served as prime minister from June 1954 to February 1955, negotiating the Geneva Accords that ended the Indochina War.
Pierre Meystre
Pierre Meystre (P. Meystre) is a Swiss theoretical physicist, Regents' Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, known for quantum optics, atom optics, and cavity optomechanics.
Pierre Mollaret
Pierre Mollaret (1898–1987) was a French physician at the Salpêtrière and Pasteur Institute, remembered for Mollaret's meningitis, the Guillain–Mollaret triangle, and first describing brain death.
Pierre Moscovici
Pierre Moscovici, born 1957 in Paris, French Socialist politician: economy minister 2012-14, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs 2014-19, First President of the Cour des comptes 2020-25, now European Court of Auditors member.
Pierre Mounguengue
Pierre Messie Mounguengue, born 2008 in Évry-Courcouronnes, French forward; PSG academy player, 524th PSG first-team debutant (May 2026), 2026 Ligue 1 and Gambardella winner, now at Dynamo Kyiv.
Pierre Mulele
Pierre Mulele was a Congolese politician and guerrilla leader, education minister under Patrice Lumumba, who led the Kwilu rebellion in the western Congo from 1963 to 1965.
Pierre Musy
Pierre Musy (1910–1990) was a Swiss bobsledder and equestrian who won four-man bobsleigh gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics and competed in eventing at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Pierre N. Leval
Pierre N. Leval, born 1936, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2002.
Pierre Ngendandumwe
Pierre Ngendandumwe was a Burundian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Burundi, the first Hutu to hold the post, and was assassinated in 1965.
Pierre Nicole
Pierre Nicole (1625–1695) was a French Jansenist theologian and moralist of Port-Royal who co-authored the Logique ou l'art de penser with Antoine Arnauld and wrote the Essais de morale.
Pierre Niney
Pierre Niney is a French actor and producer, a former Comédie-Française pensionnaire and César Best Actor winner for Yves Saint Laurent (2015); known for Frantz, Boîte noire, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, and the 2026 box-office hit Gourou.
Pierre Nkurunziza
Pierre Nkurunziza was a Burundian politician and CNDD-FDD rebel leader who served as President from 2005 to 2020, a period that included constitutional change.
Pierre Nolf
Pierre Nolf (1873–1953) was a Belgian physician and physiologist at the University of Liège, known for blood coagulation research, who served as Belgium's Minister of Sciences and Arts from 1922 to 1925.
Pierre Nord Alexis
Pierre Nord Alexis (1820–1910) was a Haitian general and statesman, President of Haiti from 1902 to 1908, overthrown by General Antoine Simon and exiled to Jamaica.
Pierre Olivaint
Pierre Olivaint (1816–1871) was a French Jesuit priest and educator, superior of the rue de Sèvres community in Paris, executed by the Paris Commune in 1871.
Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Omidyar, born Pierre Morad Omidyar in Paris in 1967, is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur who founded eBay in 1995 and co-founded Omidyar Network in 2004.
Pierre Perron
Pierre Perron is a theoretical econometrician and Professor of Economics at Boston University, known for his 1989 unit-root paper and, with Jushan Bai, the 1998 theory of multiple structural breaks.
Pierre Pestieau
Pierre Pestieau, born 1943 in Froidchapelle, Belgium, is a Belgian economist and professor emeritus at the University of Liège known for work on pensions, inheritance taxation, and long-term care.
Pierre Pigneau de Behaine
Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (Bá Đa Lộc, 1741–1799), French MEP missionary, titular bishop of Adran, and vicar apostolic of Cochinchina, negotiated the 1787 Treaty of Versailles between Louis XVI and Nguyễn Ánh and aided his return to power.
Pierre Planche
Pierre Planche, also known as Pierre-Edouard Planche, is a venture capitalist and Partner at Griffin Gaming Partners since 2022, after earlier product and corporate development roles at Dassault Systèmes.
Pierre Png
Pierre Png (方展发, born 1973) is a Singaporean Peranakan actor known as Michael Teo in Crazy Rich Asians and Phua Chu Beng in Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd; Fame Awards 1998 winner, Star Awards 2014 Best Actor, Gold 905 co-host.
Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre, born in 1979 in Calgary, Alberta, is a Canadian politician who has led the Conservative Party of Canada since 2022 and represents Battle River—Crowfoot.
Pierre Poiret
Pierre Poiret (1646–1719) was a French Reformed theologian and mystic, born in Metz, who resigned his pastorate in 1676 to follow the visionary Antoinette Bourignon.
Pierre Pollak
Pierre Pollak, born 1950, is a French neurologist who pioneered deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus for Parkinson's disease, first performed in Grenoble in 1993.
Pierre Pruvost
Pierre Pruvost (1890–1967) was a French geologist who introduced subsidence into French geology, led a school of coal-measure geologists, and held the Sorbonne geology chair.
Pierre Puget
Pierre Puget (1620–1694) was a French Baroque sculptor, painter, and architect from Marseille, known for the Versailles marble groups Milon de Crotone and Perseus and Andromeda.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) was a French painter who dominated large-scale mural decoration in late 19th-century France and became a principal forerunner of Symbolism.
Pierre Quinon
Pierre Quinon (1962-2011), French pole vaulter; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic champion at 5.75 m and 1983 world record holder at 5.82 m; first French Olympic champion in a field event.
Pierre R. Comizzoli
Pierre R. Comizzoli is a French-trained veterinarian and reproductive biologist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute since 2002, preserving eggs and sperm of endangered species.