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Pierre Ramond
Pierre Ramond is a French-born American theoretical physicist at the University of Florida whose 1971 fermionic string launched superstring theory, earning the 2015 Heineman Prize and 2020 Dirac Medal.
Pierre Raphaël
Pierre Raphaël (born 1975) is a French mathematician, the Herchel Smith Professor at Cambridge, who won the 2023 Clay Research Award and Bôcher Memorial Prize for work on blow-up solutions.
Pierre Robin (French stomatologist)
Pierre Robin (1867–1950) was a French professor of stomatology, trained as a pharmacist and dental surgeon, who coined glossoptosis and designed treatments for Robin sequence.
Pierre Robin sequence
Pierre Robin sequence (Robin sequence, PRS/RS): congenital triad of micrognathia, glossoptosis, and upper airway obstruction, often with cleft palate; isolated or syndromic (Stickler, SOX9-related), managed positionally or surgically.
Pierre Ronco
Pierre Ronco (born 1951 in Paris) is a French nephrologist known for identifying the target antigens of membranous nephropathy and defining the hereditary COL4A1 disease HANAC.
Pierre Rosenstiehl
Pierre Rosenstiehl (1933–2020) was a French mathematician specializing in graph theory and combinatorics, a directeur d'études at EHESS, and an Oulipo member known for labyrinths.
Pierre Saad
Pierre Saad is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Trella, the Cairo-based digital freight marketplace serving Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE.
Pierre Sage
Pierre Sage (born 1979) is a French football manager, Crystal Palace head coach since June 2026. Formerly Lyon academy chief, Lyon head coach, and RC Lens manager, winning Lens its first Coupe de France and the 2025/26 Ligue 1 runner-up spot.
Pierre Samuel
Pierre Samuel (1921–2009) was a French mathematician and second-generation Bourbaki member who co-authored Commutative Algebra with Oscar Zariski and made key contributions to unique factorization domains.
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, also known as Pierre Samuel du Pont, was a French economist and revolutionary politician who coined the name physiocracy in 1767.
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, born Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà, was an Italian-born French naval officer and explorer who founded Brazzaville and Franceville and secured the 1880 Makoko treaty.
Pierre Shale
The Pierre Shale is a Late Cretaceous marine shale formation of the northern Great Plains, named in 1862 from exposures at old Fort Pierre, South Dakota.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, also known as Teilhard de Chardin, was a French Jesuit priest and paleontologist who sought to reconcile Catholic doctrine with evolutionary science.
Pierre Théroux
Pierre Théroux (1943–2023) was a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal professor whose trials defined aspirin and heparin use in acute coronary syndromes.
Pierre Tiollais
Pierre Tiollais (1934–2024) was a French physician and molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur who sequenced the hepatitis B virus genome and developed a recombinant vaccine.
Pierre Trentin
Pierre Trentin (born 1944, Creteil) is a French retired track cyclist, not the road racer Matteo Trentin. Double Olympic champion at Mexico 1968 (1,000 m time trial in world-record 1:03.91, tandem with Daniel Morelon), four Olympic medals, three world titles.
Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919–2000), Canadian Liberal politician and 15th prime minister (1968–1979, 1980–1984), father of Justin Trudeau; patriated the Constitution and Charter in 1982, enacted the Official Languages Act, and recognized China in 1970.
Pierre van Hooijdonk
Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch centre forward born 1969 in Steenbergen; played for Celtic, Nottingham Forest, Feyenoord, Fenerbahçe; 2002 UEFA Cup winner, free-kick specialist, 46 Netherlands caps, 14 goals.
Pierre Van Tilt
Pierre Van Tilt, also Pierre Van Thielt, Belgian archer of the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; won two golds (33 m and 50 m target archery team) and one silver (28 m team) for Belgium, distinct from shooter Louis Van Tilt.
Pierre Vanderhaeghen
Pierre Vanderhaeghen is a Belgian developmental neuroscientist who studies how human cortical neurons are generated and which human-specific genes drive that process, leading a lab at VIB-KU Leuven.
Pierre Vaultier
Pierre Vaultier (born 1987, Briançon) is a retired French snowboard cross rider, double Olympic champion (Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018), 2017 world champion, and six-time crystal globe winner; retired December 2020 with a knee prosthesis.
Pierre Verger
Pierre Verger (1902–1996) was a French photographer and ethnologist who settled in Salvador, Brazil, documenting daily life across six continents and becoming a leading scholar of Afro-Brazilian candomblé and Yoruba religion.
Pierre Victor Auger
Pierre Victor Auger (1899–1993) was a French physicist who discovered extensive cosmic-ray air showers in 1938 and helped found CERN and the French Atomic Energy Commission.
Pierre Viret
Pierre Viret was a Swiss Reformed pastor and theologian from Orbe who consolidated the Reformation in Lausanne for twenty-two years and later preached in Geneva and France.
Pierre Weiss
Pierre-Ernest Weiss (1865–1940) was a French physicist who formulated the molecular field theory of ferromagnetism in 1907, first proposed magnetic domains, and defined the Weiss magneton.
Pierre Wolper
Pierre Wolper is a Belgian computer scientist born in Liège in 1955, known for automata-theoretic model checking, the 2000 Gödel Prize, and a term as Rector of the University of Liège.
Pierre Wome
Pierre Womé, full name Pierre Nlend Womé, is a Cameroonian retired left-back who won Olympic gold in 2000 and the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations with Cameroon.
Pierre Woodman
Pierre Woodman (Pierre André Nicolas Gerbier), French adult-film director and photographer born 1963 in Auvergne; Private Media Group director from 1992, creator of the Casting X series (1997), later based in Budapest; subject of consent allegations he denies.
Pierre Yvon
Pierre Yvon (1646–1707) was a French-born Protestant minister who led the Labadist community at Wieuwerd, Friesland, after Jean de Labadie's death in 1674, sending colonies to Suriname and Maryland.
Pierre-Alain Clavien
Pierre-Alain Clavien is a Swiss hepatobiliary and transplant surgeon who led visceral surgery at University Hospital Zurich and created the Clavien-Dindo classification of surgical complications.