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* Pierre de Thury ( -1410), said the cardinal Maillezais, a French cardinal of the Avignon Obedience, see
Council of Pisa The Council of Pisa (; , also nicknamed the , "secret meeting", by those who considered it illegitimate) was a controversial council held in 1409. It attempted to end the Western Schism by deposing both Benedict XIII (Avignon) and Gregory XII ...
*György Thury (1519-1571), a Hungarian nobleman ( hu) *
Louis-Pierre Thury Louis-Pierre Thury (; c. 1644, Notre Dame de Le Breuil-en-Auge, Breuil en Auge (Department of Calvados), France-June 3, 1699, City of Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a French missionary (secular priest) who was sent to North America during the ...
(died in 1699), French missionary priest in Acadia * César-François Cassini de Thury (1714-1784), French geographer * Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury (1776–1854), French scientist and politician *
René Thury René Thury (7 August 1860 – 23 April 1938) was a Switzerland, Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering. He was known for his work with high voltage direct current electricity transmission and was known in the professional world as the "Kin ...
(1860-1938), a Swiss engineer


Toponyms


France

* Thury, Côte-d'Or, in the Côte-d'Or (département) * Thury, Yonne, in the Yonne (département) * Thury-en-Valois, in the Oise (département) *
Thury-Harcourt Thury-Harcourt () is a former Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy Regions of France, region in northwestern France. On 1 January 201 ...
, in the Calvados (département) * Thury-sous-Clermont, in the Oise (département) * La Villeneuve-sous-Thury, French commune in the Oise (département)


Engineering

*Abbreviation for Thury-System, an outdated mechanical HVDC-system developed by René Thury {{disambiguation, surname