Collignon is a surname, and may refer to:
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Charles Collignon (fencer)
Charles Collignon (7 September 1877 in Paris - 19 July 1925) was a French fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition.
He received a gold medal in ''épée team'' at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
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, French fencer and 1908 Olympic champion
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Charles Collignon (surgeon)
Charles Collignon FRS (30 January 1725 – 1 October 1785) was a British surgeon and Cambridge's professor of anatomy.
Life
Collignon was born in 1725 to family who had come to Britain from France. He attended Cambridge University
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(1725–1785), British surgeon and professor of anatomy at Cambridge University
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Christophe Collignon
Christophe Collignon (born 21 July 1969) is a Belgian politician and a member of the PS. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.
He is Minister of Local Government and Housing of Wallonia since 2020.
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(b. 1969), Belgian politician
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Claude Boniface Collignon (d. 1819), French proponent of decimal time and metric system
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Daphné Collignon (born 1977), French comic book author
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Édouard Collignon
Édouard Charles Romain Collignon (1831–1913) was a French engineer and scientist, known for the Collignon projection and for his role in building railways in Russia.
Career
After graduating from the l'École polytechnique in 1849, he became ...
(1831–1913), French engineer and scientist
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François Collignon
François Collignon (c. 1609 – 18 January 1687) was a French engraver, print-seller and publisher.
Collignon was born in Nancy, France. He initially locally trained in the studio of Jacques Callot. After 1630 he moved to Italy where he con ...
(c. 1609–1687), French engraver
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Frédéric Collignon
Frédéric Collignon (born 13 December 1975) is a table football player from Liege, Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered b ...
(b. 1975), Belgian table football player
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Giuseppe Collignon
Giuseppe Collignon (March 2, 1778 – February 10, 1863) was an Italian painter born in Castelnuovo Berardenga. He worked in a neoclassical style, painting mainly historical subjects.
Biography
He was a contemporary of Pietro Benvenuti and Luigi ...
(1778–1863), Italian neoclassical painter
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Jacques Collignon
Jacques Collignon (born 1936) is a French former freestyle swimmer. He competed in three events at the 1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport eve ...
(b. 1936), French Olympic swimmer
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Jean Nicolas Collignon
Jean Nicolas Collignon (1762–?1788) was a gardener and botanist from the Jardin du Roi who served on the La Pérouse expedition to the South Seas (1785–?1788).
Following the three voyages of James Cook, French King Louis XVI had commanded a ...
(1762–?1788), French botanist
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Maurice Collignon
Maurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was a French geologist and paleontologist, who is best known for his research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar.
A career military officer, in 1914 ...
(1893–1978), French geologist and paleontologist
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Maxime Collignon (1849–1917), French archaeologist
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Médéric Collignon (born 1970), French musician
See also
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Collignon projection, pseudocylindrical map projection first known to be published by Édouard Collignon in 1865
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