Compere or Compère may refer to:

French surname

Loyset Compère Loyset Compère ( – 16 August 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicia ...

(c. 1445–1518), French composer of the Renaissance *

Claude Antoine Compère Claude Antoine Compère (; 21 May 1774 – 7 September 1812) was a French army officer and later general who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was killed at the Battle of Borodino The Battle of Borodino ( ) or B ...

(1774–1812), French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars *

Louis Fursy Henri Compère Louis Fursy Henri Compère (16 January 1768 – 27 March 1833) was a French general of artillery in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Compère was born in Péronne, Somme. In 1794, he was promoted to ''chef de brigade'', ...

(1768–1833), French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars *

René Compère René Compère (December 28, 1906 in Brussels – April 24, 1969 in Brussels) was a Belgian jazz trumpeter. Compère played with Billy Smith's Brussels-based band in 1923 before founding his own ensemble, the New Royal Dance Orchestra. As a member ...

(1906–1969), Belgian jazz trumpeter *

Adéodat Compère-Morel Adéodat Constant Adolphe Compère-Morel (5 October 1872 – 3 August 1941) was a French Socialist politician, agronomist, orator and writer. Characterized as a Marxist doctrinaire, he was one of the founders of the Socialist Party of France ( ...

(1872–1941), French Socialist politician and agronomist *

Léon Compère-Léandre Léon Compère-Léandre (1874?–1936) was a Martiniquais shoemaker in Saint-Pierre on the French Caribbean island of Martinique when Mount Pelée erupted on May 8, 1902, and destroyed the town. He was one of only two (arguably three) known sur ...

(c. 1874–1936), Martiniquais shoemaker, survivor of the Mount Pelée eruption in 1902

Other uses

* Compere (host), a master of ceremonies * ''

Les Compères (; English title: ComDads) is a 1983 French comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, and starring Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard and Anny Duperey. The film had 4,847,229 admissions in France. In 1997, this movie was remade as '' ...

'', a 1983 French comedy film {{disambiguation, surname French-language surnames