Blaise is a masculine given name and surname. It is the French derivation of the

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

''Blaesus'' (later ''Blasius''),

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

Βλάσιος (''Vlasios''), and is of uncertain etymological origin. One of the first known to bear the name was Roman proconsul Quintus Junius Blaesus. The name was popularized by Saint Blaise of Sebastia.

People

Given name

* Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne, Gambian foreign minister and United Nations representative *

Blaise Alexander Blaise Robert Alexander Jr. also known as BR Alexander (March 26, 1976 – October 4, 2001) was an American professional stock car racer from Montoursville, Pennsylvania. He began racing at the age of 12 in go-karts, winning the coveted World Kart ...

, American race car driver * Blaise Andries, NFL player *

Blaise Cendrars Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars (), was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European ...

, Franco-Swiss novelist and poet *

Blaise Compaoré Blaise Compaoré (born 3 February 1951)''Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders'' (2003), page 76–77.

, ex-president of Burkina Faso * Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician, mayor of Dakar * Blaise Diesbourg, American gangster and bootlegger * Blaise Garza, American actor * Blaise Gisbert, French Jesuit rhetorician and critic * Blaise Koissy, Côte d'Ivoire football player * Blaise Kouassi (footballer, born 1974), former Côte d'Ivoire football defender * Blaise Kouassi (footballer, born 1983), Ivorian footballer * Blaise Kufo, Congolese-Swiss football player *

Blaise Matuidi Blaise Matuidi (born 9 April 1987) is a French former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He most notably played for Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus FC, Juventus, and the France nati ...

, French football player * Blaise de Montluc, French soldier *

Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal (19June 162319August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic Church, Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest ...

, French mathematician * Blaise Rabetafika, Malagasy diplomat * Blaise Senghor, Senegalese filmmaker and diplomat * Blaise Sonnery, French cyclist * Blaise Daniel Staples, American classicist *

Blaise de Vigenère Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596) () was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist. Biography Vigenère was born into a respectable family in the village of Saint-Pourçain in Bourbonnais. When he w ...

, French diplomat and cryptographer * Blaise Winter, American football player and speaker * Mamadou Blaise Sangaré, Malian politician * Jean-Blaise Martin, French opera singer

Surname

* Clark Blaise, Canadian author * Kerlin Blaise, American football player * Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier, French poet, dramatist, and politician *

Pierre Blaise Pierre-Marc Blaise (11 June 1955 – 31 August 1975) was a French film actor. He is best known for the role of Lucien Lacombe in Louis Malle's 1974 film '' Lacombe, Lucien''. An amateur selected for Malle's film, Blaise went on to act in three a ...

, French actor *

Saint Blaise Blaise of Sebaste (, ''Hágios Blásios''; martyred 316 AD) was a physician and bishop of Sivas, Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. He is counted as one of the Fourteen ...

, Armenian physician and bishop of Sebaste (Sivas) * Serge Moléon Blaise, Haitian painter * Tara Blaise, Irish singer * Jean-Blaise Kololo, Congolese politician and diplomat *Braz or Brás, a 19th-century Portuguese cook from Bairro Alto, in Lisbon, who allegedly created or popularized the dish bacalhau à Brás

Fictional characters

*Blaise, in some accounts was Merlin's master in Arthurian legends. In Malory's version he appeared to Merlin to warn him of Nimue's mischief. * Blaise Jeannot Andrieux, from the Wild Cards series of books *Blaise Kindle, a pre-made playable sim from

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. * Blaise Zabini, a minor Slytherin character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series *

Modesty Blaise ''Modesty Blaise'' is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talen ...

, heroine of a Peter O'Donnell comic strip * Bleys, a Prince of Amber, probably inspired by Merlin's tutor, he is a magically adept swordsman and charming rake.

Spellings

The following are related to the forename Blaise: *

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

: Բարսեղ (''Barsegh'') * Catalan: Blai * Croatian: Blaž; Vlaho (Dubrovnik region) * English: Blaise, Blase, Blaize, Blaze * French: Blaise * Galician: Βrais *

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

: Blasius *

: Βλασιος (''Vlasios'') * Hungarian: Balázs *

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

: Biagio *

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) **Central Kurdish (Sorani) **Southern Kurdish ** Laki Kurdish *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern ...

: بله‌یز *

: Blasius * Polish: Błażej * Portuguese: Brás (archaic spelling ''Braz'') *

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

: Vlasie, Vasile *

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

: Власий (''Vlasiy'') *

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

: Blas * Turkish: Vlas * Ukrainian: Улас (Ulas)

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