Étienne

IPA: [etjɛn]GenderMaleOther namesRelated namesStephen/Steven

Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name.[1] An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne.

Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to:

People

Scientists and inventors

  • Étienne Bézout (1730–1783), French mathematician
  • Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810), French entomologist and pharmacist
  • Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913), German professor of economics and statistics
  • Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgian engineer who invented the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers
  • Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) (1744–1832), French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle surveying instrument
  • Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880), French entomologist and ornithologist
  • Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal
  • Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist
  • Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757–1808), French botanist
  • Étienne Wasserzug (1860–1888), French biologist

Intellectuals and academics

  • Étienne Balazs (1905–1963), Hungarian-born French sinologist
  • Étienne Balibar (born 1942), French Marxist philosopher and professor
  • Étienne Baluze (1630–1718), French scholar also known as Stephanus Baluzius
  • Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563), French intellectual and noted friend of Michel de Montaigne
  • Étienne Cabet (1788–1856), French philosopher and utopian socialist
  • Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780), French philosopher
  • Étienne Dolet (1509–1546), French scholar, translator and printer
  • Étienne Fourmont (1683–1745), French orientalist
  • Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), French philosopher
  • Étienne Hubert (Arabist) (1567–1614), French physician, Orientalist and diplomat, also known as Stephanus Hubertus
  • Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983), Belgian priest, Indologist and authority on Buddhism
  • Etienne Vermeersch (1934–2019), Belgian philosopher
  • Étienne Weill-Raynal (1887–1982), French historian, resistant, journalist and Socialist politician.
  • Étienne Wenger (born 1952), education theorist

Politicians, government officials and soldiers

Arts and entertainment

Sports

Other

  • Etienne, pen name of gay male erotica artist Dom Orejudos (1933–1991), who established many landmarks of late-20th-century gay male culture
  • Étienne Bacrot (born 1983), French chess player, formerly the youngest person ever to have earned the Grandmaster title
  • Étienne Brûlé (c. 1592–c. 1643), French explorer in what is now Canada
  • Étienne Gaboury (1930–2022), Canadian architect
  • Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615), French lawyer and man of letters
  • Étienne Pernet (1824–1899), French Roman Catholic priest, founder of Little Sisters of the Assumption Order
  • Étienne Provost (1785–1850), French-Canadian fur trader
  • Étienne Tempier (died 1279), also known as Stephanus of Orleans, French bishop of Paris and Chancellor of the Sorbonne

Fictional characters

  • Étienne of Navarre, a main character in Ladyhawke, a 1985 historical-fantasy, played by Rutger Hauer
  • Ettienne R. LaFitte, "real" name of Gung-Ho (G.I. Joe)
  • Étienne Lantier, protagonist of Émile Zola's novel Germinal
  • Etienne LeBlanc, a main character in the novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Étienne St. Clair, a main character in the novel Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
  • Etienne, a hero tower drone pilot in Bloons TD 6

See also

References

  1. ^ "Etienne: Name Meaning, Popularity and Info on BabyNames.com". babynames.com. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
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