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Pierre-André Page
Pierre-André Page is a Swiss SVP / UDC politician and farmer from the canton of Fribourg, a National Council member since 2015 who serves as its President for 2026.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), French Impressionist painter born in Limoges, trained as a porcelain painter, showed in the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition, painted over 6,000 works, and kept painting through severe rheumatoid arthritis until his death at Cagnes-sur-Mer.
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763–1806), French vice-admiral, commanded the Franco-Spanish fleet defeated by Nelson at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805; freed on parole, he died by suicide at Rennes in April 1806.
Pierre-Daniel Huet
Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721) was a French churchman and scholar, bishop of Avranches, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Académie du Physique in Caen, and a critic of Descartes.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, born 1989 in Laval, France, is a Gabonese striker, Gabon's all-time leading scorer, who made his name at Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal before joining Deportivo de La Coruña.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg (born 1995) is a Danish midfielder for Olympique Marseille and Denmark. Bayern Munich's youngest-ever Bundesliga debutant, later Southampton captain and Tottenham midfielder, with 99 Denmark caps.
Pierre-Félix Lagrange
Pierre-Félix Lagrange (1857–1928) was a French ophthalmologist and professor of ophthalmology at the University of Bordeaux who devised iridosclerectomy for chronic glaucoma, the Opération de Lagrange.
Pierre-François Bougnères
Pierre-François Bougnères is a French pediatric endocrinologist and Inserm research director at Paris hospitals, known for New England Journal of Medicine trials in type 1 diabetes and adrenoleukodystrophy.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007) was a French physicist, credited as the father of soft matter, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize for describing order in varied systems.
Pierre-Guérin de Tencin
Pierre-Guérin de Tencin (1680–1758) was a French cardinal, diplomat, and statesman who became archbishop of Embrun, then archbishop of Lyon and minister of state to Louis XV.
Pierre-Henri Simon
Pierre-Henri Simon (1903–1972) was a French novelist, poet, and literary critic who held Le Monde's literary column from 1961 and was elected to the Académie française in 1966.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Pierre-Hugues Herbert (P2H), born 1991 in Schiltigheim, French tennis player; with Nicolas Mahut completed the career Grand Slam in doubles, won ATP Finals 2019 and 2021, peaked at doubles No. 2, singles No. 36.
Pierre-Jean De Smet
Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801–1873) was a Belgian Jesuit missionary to Native American peoples of the American West, founding missions and serving as a US peace envoy.
Pierre-Joseph Chaumonot
Pierre-Joseph Chaumonot, called Échon by the Hurons, was a French Jesuit missionary to New France who mastered the Huron language and founded the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette mission near Quebec.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French anarchist theorist of mutualism, author of 'Property is theft' (1840), founder of the People's Bank, and a rival and influence of Marx and Bakunin.
Pierre-Louis Lions
Pierre-Louis Lions, born in 1956, is a French applied mathematician who won the 1994 Fields Medal for work on nonlinear partial differential equations and mean field game theory.
Pierre-Luc Dubois
Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian NHL center born 1998 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec; drafted third overall 2016 by Columbus; Capitals center since June 2024 trade from Kings for Darcy Kuemper; career-high 66 points in 2024-25.
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is a French-born economist who served as the IMF's chief economist from 2022 to 2026 and is a professor of global management at UC Berkeley, known for research on the dollar's exorbitant privilege.
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman known for soft, sculptural modeling of light, a favorite of the Napoleonic imperial family and a precursor of Romanticism.
Pierre-Paul Tarin de Cussy
Pierre-Paul Tarin de Cussy was a French officer who served as governor of Tortuga and Saint-Domingue from 1684 until he was killed in battle in 1691.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace, marquis de Laplace, was a French mathematician and astronomer who proved the stability of the solar system, founded modern probability theory, and proposed the nebular hypothesis.
Pierre-Yves Morlat
Pierre-Yves Morlat (born 1966) is a French financial executive who co-founded the quantitative hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies and serves as its chief executive officer.
Pierre‐Marie Lledo
Pierre-Marie Lledo is a French neuroscientist who chairs the Department of Neuroscience at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for work on adult neurogenesis and gut–brain signaling.
Pierre, South Dakota
Pierre (pronounced "pier") is the capital of South Dakota and seat of Hughes County on the Missouri River; with about 14,000 residents it is the second-smallest US state capital after Montpelier, Vermont.
Pierres précieuses sounding rockets
The Pierres précieuses were a family of French experimental solid-propellant rockets named after gemstones, including Agate, Topaze, and Saphir, that tested techniques for the Diamant satellite launcher.
Pierrière
Pierrière (Perrière, from Latin perreira) is an ancient place in Barrington Atlas map 14 H2 (Pleiades 138516); the word is old French for a stone quarry and survives as a quarry place name in France.
Pierrot
Pierrot, from Italian Pedrolino of commedia dell'arte, is the white-faced, white-clad servant character of French pantomime, made famous by Giaratoni (1673) and Deburau, and central to Watteau's painting and modern mime.
Pierrot (company)
Pierrot (株式会社スタジオぴえろ), also Studio Pierrot, is a Japanese animation studio founded in May 1979 in Mitaka, Tokyo, by ex-Tatsunoko/Mushi Pro staff including Yūji Nunokawa; it produced Naruto, Bleach, YuYu Hakusho, launched PIERROT FILMS in 2024, and renamed itself Studio Pierrot Co., Ltd. in August 2025.
Pierrot ensemble
Pierrot ensemble: chamber instrumentation of voice, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello, piano, created by Schoenberg for Pierrot lunaire op. 21 (1912) and now standard in contemporary music.
Pierrot Grenade
Pierrot Grenade is a traditional Carnival character of Trinidad and Tobago, a satirical descendant of the older Pierrot masquerade, known for spelling any word through elaborate stories.