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. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne. Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to:

People

Artists and entertainers

* Etienne Aigner (1904–2000), Hungarian-born German fashion designer * Étienne Chatiliez (born 1952), French film director * Étienne de Crécy (born 1969), French electronic music producer and DJ * Étienne Daho (born 1956), French singer, songwriter and record producer * Etienne Debel (1931–1993), Belgian actor and director * Étienne Doirat (c. 1675–1732), French furniture designer. * Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), French Rococo sculptor * Etienne Girardot (1856–1939), Anglo-French actor * Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532–1573), French dramatist and poet * Étienne Loulié (1654–1702), French musician, pedagogue and musical theorist * Étienne Méhul (1763–1817), French composer * Étienne Moulinié (1599–1676), French Baroque composer * Étienne Périer (director) (1931–2020), Belgian film director

Intellectuals and academics

* Étienne Balazs (1905–1963), Hungarian-born French sinologist *

Étienne Balibar Étienne Balibar (; ; born 23 April 1942) is a French philosopher. He has taught at the University of Paris X, at the University of California, Irvine and is currently an Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European ...

(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 Étienne Dolet (; 3 August 15093 August 1546) was a French scholar, translation, translator and printer (publisher), printer. He was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime, which was buffeted by the opposing forces of the Renaissance and ...

(1509–1546), French scholar, translator and printer *

Étienne Fourmont Étienne Fourmont (23 June 1683 – 8 December 1745) was a French scholar and Orientalist who served as professor of Arabic at the Collège de France and published grammars on the Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese languages. Although Fourmont is ...

(1683–1745), French orientalist *

Étienne Gilson Étienne Henri Gilson (; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition ...

(1884–1978), French philosopher *

Étienne Hubert (Arabist) Étienne Hubert d'Orléans (Stephanus Hubertus, 1567–1614) was a French physician, Orientalist and diplomat of the 17th century. Biography Born in Orléans, he studied medicine there and in Paris (gaining his Bachelor on 21 April 1596) and bec ...

(1567–1614), French physician, Orientalist and diplomat, also known as Stephanus Hubertus *

Étienne Lamotte Étienne Paul Marie Lamotte (; 21 November 1903 – 5 May 1983) was a Belgian priest and Professor of Greek at the Catholic University of Louvain, but was better known as an Indologist and the greatest authority on Buddhism in the West in his ...

(1903–1983), Belgian priest, Indologist and authority on Buddhism *

Etienne Vermeersch Etienne Vermeersch (2 May 1934, Sint-Michiels, Bruges – 18 January 2019, Ghent) was a Belgian moral philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. He is one of the founding fathers of the abortion, euthanasia law, and the Law on Patients ...

(1934–2019), Belgian philosopher *

Étienne Weill-Raynal Étienne Weill-Raynal (1887–1982) was a French historian, resistant, journalist and Socialist politician. As a scholar following World War I, he specialized in the subject of reparations. When World War II began, he was dismissed from his teach ...

(1887–1982), French historian, resistant, journalist and Socialist politician. *

Étienne Wenger __NOTOC__ Étienne Charles Wenger (born 1952) is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation (with Jean Lave) of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice. ...

(born 1952), education theorist

Politicians, government officials and soldiers

Étienne François, duc de Choiseul Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne. Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to: People Artists and entertainers * ...

(1719–1785), French military officer, statesman and diplomat * Étienne Bazeries (1846–1931), French military cryptanalyst * Étienne Eustache Bruix (1759–1805), French Navy admiral * Étienne Clavière (1735–1793), Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution * Étienne Clémentel (1864–1936), French politician * Étienne Compayré (1748–1817), French politician. * Étienne Davignon (born 1932), Belgian politician, businessman and former vice-president of the European Commission * Étienne Grandmont (born 1977), a Canadian politician in the province of Québec * Étienne Jacques Macdonald (1765–1840), Marshal of the Empire * Étienne Maurice Gérard, comte Gérard (1773–1852), French general and statesman * Étienne Guy (1774–1820), surveyor and politician in Lower Canada * Etienne van der Horst (born 1958), Curaçaoan politician * Etyen Mahçupyan (born 1950), Turkish-Armenian journalist, writer and politician * Étienne Manac'h (1910–1992), French diplomat and writer * Étienne Marcel (died 1358), provost of the merchants of Paris under King John II * Étienne Parent (1802–1874), Canadian journalist and government official * Étienne Perier (governor) (1687–1766), French naval officer and colonial administrator * Étienne Richaud (1841–1889), Governor of French India * Etienne Saqr (born 1937), Lebanese founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party * Étienne Tshisekedi (1932–2017), politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *Étienne de Vignolles (1390–1443), called La Hire, a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War and a close comrade of Joan of Arc * Etienne Ys (born 1962), twice Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles

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

Sportsmen

* Étienne Bally (1923–2018), French sprinter * Etienne Barbara (born 1982), Maltese footballer * Étienne Boulay (born 1983), Canadian football player * Étienne Capoue (born 1988), French footballer * Étienne Dagon (born 1960), Swiss breaststroke swimmer * * Ettiene de Bruyn (born 1977), South African cricketer * Étienne Desmarteau (1873–1905), Canadian winner of the 54 pound weight throw at the 1904 Olympics * Étienne Didot (born 1983), French footballer * Etienne Eto'o (born 1990), Cameroonian footballer * Étienne Mattler (1905–1986), French footballer * Etienne L. de Mestre (1832–1916), Australian racehorse trainer * Etienne Oosthuizen (rugby union, born 1992), South African rugby union player * Etienne Oosthuizen (rugby union, born 1994), South African rugby union player * Ettienne Richardson (born 1981), Grenadian footballer * Ettiene Smit (born 1974), South African strongman competitor * Etienne Stott (born 1979), English slalom canoeist

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 Étienne Tempier (; also known as Stephanus of Orleans; died 3 September 1279) was a French bishop of Paris during the 13th century. He was Chancellor of the University of Paris, Chancellor of the University of Paris, Sorbonne from 1263 to 1268, ...

(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''

References

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