Papillon is a name meaning "butterfly" in French.
Notable people with the name include:
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Annick Papillon (born 1980), Canadian politician
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Godfrey Papillon (1867–1942), English cricketer
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Jean-François Papillon
Jean-François Papillon (died in the early 1800s) was one of the principal leaders in the Haitian Revolution against slavery and French rule. He led the initial uprising of enslaved workers and later allied with Spain against the French.
He was bo ...
(died 1805), African-born slave in Haiti
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John Papillon (cricketer) (1806–1889), English cricketer
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John Papillon
John Ashton Papillon (1838–1891) was a British photographer and Royal Engineer who was commissioned to accompany and photographically document the Anglo-French military expedition to northern China during the Second Opium War in 1860. Papillon ...
(1838–1891), British photographer and army engineer
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Thomas Papillon
Thomas Papillon (6 September 1623 – 5 May 1702) was an English merchant and politician, an influential figure in the City of London for half a century. He served as a Commissioner for the Victualling of the Navy from 1689 to 1699.
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(1623–1702), English merchant and politician
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Papillon Soo Soo
''Full Metal Jacket'' is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel ''The Short-Timers''. It stars Mat ...
(born 1961), British-Chinese model and actress
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