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Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat (Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall; 1900–1990), Spanish-born, Cuba-raised bandleader called the Rumba King. Led the Waldorf-Astoria orchestra from 1930, popularized Latin dance music in the US, recorded Perfidia, appeared in about 25 films.
Xavier de Rosnay
Xavier de Rosnay (born 1982), full name Xavier Dulong de Rosnay, is the French graphic-designer-turned-musician who forms, with Gaspard Augé, the electro duo Justice; he is the duo's talkative spokesman, co-creator of Cross, D.A.N.C.E., and Hyperdrama.
Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan (Xavier Dolan-Tadros), Quebec filmmaker and actor born 1989 in Montreal; directed I Killed My Mother at 19, won Cannes Jury Prize for Mommy (2014) and Grand Prix for It's Only the End of the World (2016).
Xavier Dorfman
Xavier Dorfman (born 1973, Saint-Martin-d'Hères) is a French rower, Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medallist in the lightweight coxless four, later head coach of Japanese rowing and, from 2024, a Rowing Australia women's squad coach.
Xavier Forns
Xavier Forns, born in Badalona in 1964, is a Spanish hepatologist who directs the Hepatitis Unit at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and led the CORAL-I hepatitis C trial.
Xavier Gabaix
Xavier Gabaix is a French economist and Harvard professor known for explaining Zipf's law of city sizes, a rare-disaster framework for asset pricing, and behavioral macroeconomics.
Xavier Guillory
Xavier Guillory (born 2001, Spokane, WA) is a Nez Perce Tribe wide receiver who played at Idaho State and Arizona State and signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted 2025 free agent.
Xavier High School (New York City)
Xavier High School (NYC), a Jesuit all-boys Catholic college prep school at 30 W 16th Street, Chelsea, founded 1847 by Fr. John Larkin, S.J.; grades 9-12, tuition $27,915 (2026-27), JROTC optional since 1971. Distinct from Xavier High School in Middletown, Connecticut.
Xavier Jeunemaı̂tre
Xavier Jeunemaitre is a French physician-geneticist and professor of genetics who heads the genetics department at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris, known for the 1992 Cell paper linking the angiotensinogen gene to essential hypertension.
Xavier Jouven
Xavier Jouven is a French cardiologist and epidemiologist, head of cardiology at the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou in Paris, known for research on sudden cardiac death.
Xavier Le Pichon
Xavier Le Pichon (1937–2025) was a French geophysicist who produced the first quantitative global model of plate tectonics in 1968 and held the geodynamics chair at the Collège de France.
Xavier Lesage
Xavier Lesage (François Xavier Edmond Marie Lesage, 1885-1968), French cavalry officer and dressage rider; bronze at Paris 1924, double gold on Taine at Los Angeles 1932; later écuyer en chef at Saumur.
Xavier Mariette
Xavier Mariette is a French rheumatologist and professor at Université Paris-Saclay who heads Immuno-Rheumatology at Hôpital Bicêtre and is internationally known for work on primary Sjögren's syndrome.
Xavier Molyneux
Xavier Molyneux is an Australian actor known for playing Byron Stone in the Neighbours revival (2023–2025, 385 episodes), Young Michael in Netflix's Take My Hand (2024), and the lead Erik Bloodaxe in Prime Video's Bloodaxe (2027).
Xavier Montalban
Xavier Montalbán is a Spanish neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia since 2007 and a leader of the McDonald diagnostic criteria.
Xavier Moya
Xavier Moya (Xavier Moya i Raposo) is a Spanish materials physicist and Professor of Materials Physics at the University of Cambridge, working on caloric materials and multiferroics.
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball is Xavier University's NCAA Division I team in Cincinnati, Ohio, a BIG EAST member since 2013 (previously Atlantic 10), with 30 NCAA Tournament appearances, 29 since 1983, eight Sweet Sixteens, and Elite Eight runs but no Final Four.
Xavier Niel
Xavier Niel is a French entrepreneur who founded the telecom group Iliad in 1999 and its subsidiary Free, undercutting established French operators, and later backed Station F and the Kyutai AI lab.
Xavier Nwankpa
Xavier Nwankpa, born in 2003, is an American football safety for the Kansas City Chiefs who went undrafted in 2026 after playing four seasons of college football at Iowa.
Xavier Rhodes
Xavier Rhodes, born 1990 in Miami, is a former NFL cornerback (2013-2023): Vikings first-round pick, 3x Pro Bowl, 2017 First-Team All-Pro, 13 career interceptions; later Colts, Bills, Cowboys; retired after 2023.
Xavier Rodriguez
Xavier Rodriguez (born 1961) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Texas since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Xavier Roy
Xavier Roy is a Canadian materials chemist and professor at Columbia University in New York, known for superatomic crystals and for reporting the first two-dimensional heavy fermion material, CeSiI, in 2024.
Xavier Rudd
Xavier Rudd (born 1978, Torquay, Victoria) is an Australian roots, folk, and world music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, also known as Xavier Rudd & Izintaba and Xavier Rudd & the United Nations, famed for one-man-band didgeridoo performances and environmental activism.
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Xavier Sala i Martín) is a Catalan economist, Grossman Professor at Columbia University, known for growth research and estimates that global poverty fell after 1970.
Xavier Samuel
Xavier Samuel (born 1983, Hamilton, Victoria) is an Australian film and theatre actor, a Flinders Drama Centre graduate known for Riley in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Fury, Elvis, Blonde, and Australian series such as Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Xavier Smalls
Xavier Smalls (born 1997) is an American actor from Sacramento, California, known as Angel in Tyler Perry's Netflix series Beauty in Black and Zavier in Madea's Destination Wedding (2025); also a short-film director and William Esper Studio graduate.
Xavier Smith
Xavier Smith, NFL wide receiver and punt returner from Haines City, Florida; Florida A&M walk-on, Los Angeles Rams undrafted free agent (2023), waived October 2026, signed to the San Francisco 49ers practice squad.
Xavier Trepat
Xavier Trepat, born in 1976, is a Spanish biophysicist and ICREA Research Professor at IBEC in Barcelona, known for collective cell migration and the 2018 Nature paper on active superelasticity in epithelial tissue.
Xavier Uncle
Xavier Uncle (@xavierunclelite) is an anonymous Indian meme account on X and Instagram that posts humorous one-liners using Pakalu Papito's mustached profile picture; about 318,000 Twitter followers, operator says he is a lawyer, identity unrevealed.
Xavier University
Xavier University (XU, Musketeers) is a private Jesuit Catholic university in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1831 as the Athenaeum; the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the US, NCAA Division I Big East.