Alain (given name)
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 and is the French form of Alan
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  • Alain, bishop of Auxerre
    Alain, bishop of Auxerre
    Alain was a Cistercian abbot of La Rivour, and bishop of Auxerre from 1152 to 1167. He was a close associate of Bernard of Clairvaux, who was instrumental in getting him appointed bishop, under commission from Pope Eugene III, after a dispute in the diocese...

     (died 1185), a Cistercian abbot and bishop of Auxerre from 1152 to 1167
  • Alain Acard
    Alain Acard
    Alain Acard is a French sprint canoer who competed in the 1970s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mexico City....

     (born 1951), a French sprint canoer
  • Alain Akouala Atipault
    Alain Akouala Atipault
    Alain Akouala Atipault is a Congolese politician. He served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Communication in charge of Relations with Parliament, as well as Government Spokesman, from 2002 to 2009, and he has been Minister at the Presidency in charge of Special Economic...

     (born 1959), a Congolese politician
  • Alain Anderton
    Alain Anderton
    Alain G. Anderton is an author of business studies and economics textbooks for use in secondary education in the U.K.. He has written GCSE and A-level Economics textbooks , as well as a book on business studies.-References:...

    , an author of business studies and economics textbooks
  • Alain Andji
    Alain Andji
    Alain Andji is a French pole vaulter. He changed nationality from his birth country Côte d'Ivoire.-Biography:...

     (born 1974), a French pole vaulter
  • Alain André
    Alain André
    Alain André a lawyer, a university and college law professor, a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.Before running for office, André was a political attaché and administrative assistant to Yvon Lamarre, Chairman of the City of Montreal's Executive Committee during the time...

    , a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec
  • Alain Anziani
    Alain Anziani
    Alain Anziani is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Gironde department. He is a member of the Socialist Party.-References:*...

     (born 1951), a member of the Senate of France, representing the Gironde department
  • Alain Aspect
    Alain Aspect
    Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement....

     (born 1947), a French physicist
  • Alain Auderset
    Alain Auderset
    Alain Auderset is a Swiss Christian author of comic books. He lives in Saint-Imier, Switzerland with his wife, Eliane, and their four children, Séphora, Silas, Océane and Benjamin...

     (born 1968), a Swiss Christian author of comic books
  • Alain Bédouma Yoda
    Alain Bédouma Yoda
    Alain Bédouma Yoda is a Burkinabé politician. He served in the government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Transport and Tourism from 1997 to 2000, Minister of Trade from 2000 to 2002, Minister of Health from 2002 to 2008, and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation from...

     (born 1951), a Burkinabé politician and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation
  • Alain Bélanger
    Alain Belanger
    Alain "Bam-Bam" Bélanger was a professional hockey player. He played with the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 1977–78 NHL season for 9 games getting one assist. The next two seasons, he played in the AHL with the New Brunswick Hawks, racking up 12 goals and 40 points in 76 games...

    , a professional hockey player
  • Alain Badiou
    Alain Badiou
    Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...

     (born 1937), a prominent French philosopher
  • Alain Bancquart
    Alain Bancquart
    Alain Bancquart is a French composer. He had his musical formation at the "Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris" with Darius Milhaud. He was a violist with the Orchestre National de France until 1973...

     (born 1934), a French composer
  • Alain Bashung
    Alain Bashung
    Alain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor.- Youth :Alain Bashung was the son of a Breton factory worker and French Kabyle father, whom he never knew. His mother remarried, and at the age of one, Bashung was sent to Strasbourg to live with his new stepfather's parents...

     (1947–2009), a French singer, songwriter and actor
  • Alain Bauer
    Alain Bauer
    Alain W. M. Bauer is a Criminologist. He is a constitutionalist lawyer.He has been the youngest Vice President of the Sorbonne university, an office he held from 1982 to 1989....

    , a Criminologist
  • Alain Baxter
    Alain Baxter
    Alain Baxter is a professional skier from Scotland. He specialises in the slalom discipline.-Background:He is the son of Iain and Sue Baxter, who were both British Ski Team members, and was born in Edinburgh. He is named after the 70s French skiing star Alain Penz...

     (born 1973), a professional skier from Scotland
  • Alain Beaulé
    Alain Beaule
    Alain Beaulé is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 183 games in the World Hockey Association for the Winnipeg Jets and Quebec Nordiques.-External links:...

     (born 1946), a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman
  • Alain Behi
    Alain Behi
    Alain Behi is a French-Ivorian football player who currently plays for Ashford Town F.C. in the Isthmian League Premier Division.-Club career:...

     (born 1978), a French-Ivorian football player
  • Alain Berger
    Alain Berger
    Alain Berger is a Swiss orienteering competitor. He is two times Relay World Champion, as a member of the Swiss winning teams in 1991 and 1995. He also obtained bronze on the Classic distance in the 1999 World Championship.-References:...

    , a Swiss orienteering competitor
  • Alain Bergeron
    Alain Bergeron
    Alain Bergeron is a Québécois science fiction author and political scientist.Born in Paris, France, he has won the Aurora Award and Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He has written seven books, beginning with Un été de Jessica . Bergeron is also an essayist who writes works concerning the genre...

     (born 1950), a Québécois science fiction author and political scientist
  • Alain Berliner
    Alain Berliner
    Alain Berliner is a Belgian director best known for the 1997 film Ma vie en rose, which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Golden Globe Awards in 1998...

     (born 1963), a Belgian director best known for the 1997 film Ma vie en rose
  • Alain Bernard
    Alain Bernard
    Alain Bernard is a French swimmer from Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône.Bernard won three medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics. After competing on the silver medal-winning French 4×100 m relay team, Bernard won the gold medal in the men's 100 m freestyle event.He held the same 100 m...

     (born 1983), a French swimmer from Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône
  • Alain Bernat Gallego
    Alain Bernat Gallego
    Alain Bernat Gallego is an Andorran politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Andorra.-External links:*...

     (born 1971), an Andorran politician
  • Alain Bernheim
    Alain Bernheim
    Alain Bernheim, born 1931 in Paris, France, lives in Montreux, Switzerland. At the age of twelve he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the infamous concentration camp Drancy, at fifteen he was chosen to represent the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly at the Concours Général of philosophy...

     (born 1931), musician and Masonic researcher
  • Alain Berset
    Alain Berset
    Alain Berset is a member of the Swiss Council of States since 2003 and its president during the 2008/2009 term...

     (born 1972), President of the Swiss Council of States
  • Alain Billiet (born 1951), the alleged designer of the euro sign (€)
  • Alain Blanchard
    Alain Blanchard
    Alain Blanchard was a commander of the crossbowmen of Rouen during the Hundred Years' War.He was active in the defence of the city during its siege by king Henry V of England. When the city capitulated on January 20, 1419 the English demanded that three notable inhabitants be surrendered to be...

     (born 1419), a commander of the crossbowmen of Touent during the Hundred Years' War
  • Alain Blondel
    Alain Blondel
    Alain Blondel is a retired French decathlete. During his career he won the European title once.-Achievements:-External links:...

     (born 1962), a retired French decathlete
  • Alain Bocquet
    Alain Bocquet
    Alain Bocquet is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Nord department, and is a member of the Gauche démocrate et républicaine.-References:...

     (born 1946), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Boghossian
    Alain Boghossian
    Alain Boghossian is a retired French-Armenian football player and now assistant coach for the French national team.-Club career:...

     (born 1970), a retired Armenian-French football player
  • Alain Boire
    Alain Boire
    Alain Boire is a Quebec politician.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Boire was a Bloc Québécois member of the Canadian House of Commons. He represented the district of Beauharnois—Salaberry from 2004-2006. He was the Bloc critic of Youth. He is a former businessman, electrician and technician. He lost his...

     (born 1971), a Quebec politician
  • Alain Bombard
    Alain Bombard
    Alain Bombard was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat.Alain Bombard was born in Paris...

     (1924–2005), a French biologist, physician and politician
  • Alain Bondue
    Alain Bondue
    Alain Bondue is a racing cyclist from France.He competed for France in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the individual pursuit event where he finished in second place.-References:*...

     (born 1959), a cyclist from France
  • Alain Boublil
    Alain Boublil
    Alain Boublil is a musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End...

    , a librettist who worked with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg
  • Alain Bouchard
    Alain Bouchard
    Alain Bouchard is a Canadian businessman. He is founder, president and CEO of Alimentation Couche-Tard, and also serves on the board of directors of Atrium Innovations. Both corporations are based in Quebec. Bouchard had a net worth of $790 million CDN in 2010. He is in the top 20 of richest...

    , a Canadian businessman
  • Alain Bravo
    Alain Bravo
    Alain Bravo is a French electrical engineer and entrepreneur. His accomplishments include founding one of France's leading mobile phone services, Société Française de Radiotéléphonie , and he is currently the president of Abhexis and the managing director of Supélec, one of France's top five...

    , a French electrical engineer and entrepreneur
  • Alain Calmat
    Alain Calmat
    Alain Calmat is a French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician. He is the 1964 Olympic silver medalist, the 1965 World Champion, the 1962–1964 European Champion, and the 1958 & 1962–1965 French national champion.-Career:Calmat started skating at the age of nine...

    , French world champion figure skater
  • Alain Côté (ice hockey b. 1957) (born 1957), a professional ice hockey player for the Quebec Nordiques
  • Alain Côté (ice hockey b. 1967) (born 1967), a former professional ice hockey player and Roller Hockey player
  • Alain Cacheux
    Alain Cacheux
    Alain Cacheux is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Nord department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-References:...

     (born 1947), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Calmat
    Alain Calmat
    Alain Calmat is a French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician. He is the 1964 Olympic silver medalist, the 1965 World Champion, the 1962–1964 European Champion, and the 1958 & 1962–1965 French national champion.-Career:Calmat started skating at the age of nine...

     (born 1940), a French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician
  • Alain Cantareil
    Alain Cantareil
    Alain Cantareil is a French footballer.He currently plays for FC Rouen.-External links: at lfp.fr...

     (born 1983), a French footballer
  • Alain Caron (bass player)
    Alain Caron (bass player)
    Alain Caron is a French Canadian jazz bassist.The youngest of 11 children, Caron started playing bass at age 11 and began pursuing jazz at age 15...

     (born 1955), a Canadian jazz musician
  • Alain Caron (ice hockey) (1938–1986), a Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Alain Casanova
    Alain Casanova
    Alain Casanova is a football former goalkeeper and manager.He played for INF Vichy, Le Havre AC, Olympique de Marseille and Toulouse FC...

     (born 1961), a football former goalkeeper and manager
  • Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987...

     (born 1931), a French film director
  • Alain Caveglia
    Alain Caveglia
    Alain Caveglia is a retired French footballer who played as a striker.-Football career:A prolific goalscorer, Caveglia started at FC Gueugnon, making his first division debuts on 21 August 1990 with FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, against Stade Brestois 29.After two more seasons at Le Havre AC, he moved...

     (born 1968), a French football retired striker
  • Alain Cayzac
    Alain Cayzac
    Alain Cayzac, born in Évreux, Eure on 2 June 1941 is a French advertising agent and was the president of the Paris Saint-Germain Football Club between June 2006 and April 2008....

     (born 1941), a French advertising agent
  • Alain Chabat
    Alain Chabat
    Alain Chabat is a French actor and director who appeared in La Cité de la peur, French Twist, The Taste of Others and The Science of Sleep.- Life and career :Chabat was born in Oran, French Algeria. He is Jewish....

     (born 1958), a French Jewish actor and director
  • Alain Chamfort
    Alain Chamfort
    Alain Chamfort, born Alain Le Govic, is a French singer of Breton origin, born on 2 March 1949 in Paris.He was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice...

     (born 1949), a French singer of Breton origin
  • Alain Chapel
    Alain Chapel
    Alain Chapel was a French Michelin 3 starred chef, credited with being one of the originators of Nouvelle Cuisine.Chapel was born in Lyon, the son of Maître d' Charles and his wife Eva...

     (1937–1990), a French Michelin 3 starred chef
  • Alain Chartier
    Alain Chartier
    Alain Chartier was a French poet and political writer.He was born at Bayeux, into a family marked by considerable ability. His eldest brother Guillaume became bishop of Paris; and Thomas became notary to the king. Jean Chartier, a monk of St Denis, whose history of Charles VII is printed in vol. III...

     (1392–1430), a French poet and political writer
  • Alain Chatillon
    Alain Chatillon
    Alain Chatillon is a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Haute-Garonne department and is a member of the Radical Party.-References:*...

     (born 1943), a member of the Senate of France
  • Alain Chevrier
    Alain Chevrier
    Alain Guy Chevrier is a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender.Chevrier started his National Hockey League career with the New Jersey Devils. He would also play with the Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings...

     (born 1961), a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender
  • Alain Claeys
    Alain Claeys
    Alain Claeys is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party, Mayor of Poitiers since 2008 and a Member of the National Assembly of France for the first constituency of the Vienne department since 1997. He sits in the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left group in the...

     (born 1948), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Clark
    Alain Clark
    Alain Clark is a Dutch musician and producer. He is a recipient of the Dutch music awards Zilveren Harp, 3FM Mega Award and the Edison Award ....

     (born 1979), a Dutch musician and producer
  • Alain Colmerauer
    Alain Colmerauer
    Alain Colmerauer is a French computer scientist.After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble, he spent 1967–1970 as Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, where he created Q-Systems, one of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in the development of the TAUM-METEO machine...

     (born 1941), a French computer scientist
  • Alain Connes
    Alain Connes
    Alain Connes is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.-Work:...

     (born 1947), a French mathematician
  • Alain Corbin
    Alain Corbin
    Alain Corbin is a French historian, specialist of the 19th century in France.Trained in the Annales School, Corbin's work has moved away from the large-scale collective structures studied by Fernand Braudel towards a history of sensibilities which is closer to Lucien Febvre's history of mentalités...

    , a French historian, specialist of the 19th century in France
  • Alain Corneau
    Alain Corneau
    Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his...

     (born 1943), a French movie director and writer
  • Alain Couriol
    Alain Couriol
    Alain Couriol is a former football striker from France, who earned 12 caps and scored 2 goals for the France national football team, including playing in the 1982 FIFA World Cup where France finished fourth...

     (born 1958), a former French football striker
  • Alain Courtois
    Alain Courtois
    Alain Courtois is a Belgian politician. Born in Schaerbeek, he is Secretary General of the Belgian Football Association...

     (born 1951) is a Belgian politician
  • Alain Cousin
    Alain Cousin
    Alain Cousin is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Manche department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:...

     (born 1947), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Cuny
    Alain Cuny
    Alain Cuny was a French actor.He was born René Xavier Marie in Saint-Malo, Brittany, and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. Cuny started acting in the 1930s...

     (1908–1994), a French actor
  • Alain Daigle
    Alain Daigle
    Roland Alain Daigle is a former professional ice hockey forward who played six seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League from 1974–75 to 1979–80....

     (born 1954), a former professional ice hockey forward
  • Alain Daniélou
    Alain Daniélou
    Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted Western convert to and expert on Shaivite Hinduism.-Life:...

     (1907–1994), a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and convert to Shaivite Hinduism
  • Alain de Benoist
    Alain de Benoist
    Alain de Benoist is a French academic, philosopher, a founder of the Nouvelle Droite and head of the French think tank GRECE. Benoist is a critic of liberalism, free markets and egalitarianism.-Biography:...

     (born 1943), a French academic, philosopher, a founder of the Nouvelle Droite
  • Alain de Boissieu
    Alain de Boissieu
    Alain de Boissieu was a French general, Free French, Compagnon de la Libération, Army chief of staff and son-in-law of general Charles de Gaulle.-Life:...

     (1914–2006), a French general, son-in-law of general Charles de Gaulle
  • Alain de Botton
    Alain de Botton
    Alain de Botton is a Swiss writer, television presenter, and entrepreneur, resident in the UK.His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. In August 2008, he was a founding member...

    , (born 1969), a British writer and television producer
  • Alain de Cadenet
    Alain de Cadenet
    Alain de Cadenet is an on air personality for the Speed Channel and ESPN. The British-born de Cadenet has hosted many shows on SPEED, including Legends of Motorsport, as well as the network's coverage of the Goodwood Festival of Speed...

     (born 1945), an on air personality for the SPEED Channel and ESPN
  • Alain de Changy
    Alain de Changy
    Alain Carpentier de Changy was a racing driver from Belgium. His single Formula One World Championship Grand Prix attempt was at the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix with a Cooper run by Ecurie Nationale Belge, but he failed to qualify...

     (1922–1994), a racing driver from Belgium
  • Alain de Coëtivy
    Alain de Coëtivy
    Alain de Coëtivy was a French prelate from a Breton noble family. He was bishop of Avignon, Uzès, Nîmes and of Dol, titular cardinal of Santa Prassede, then cardinal-bishop of Palestrina and cardinal-bishop of Sabina....

     (1407–1474), a prelate from a Breton noble family
  • Alain de Lille
    Alain de Lille
    Alain de Lille , French theologian and poet, was born, probably in Lille, some years before 1128.-Life:...

     (1128–1202), French theologian and poet
  • Alain de Mijolla
    Alain de Mijolla
    Alain de Mijolla is a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Mijolla was analyzed by Conrad Stein and Denise Brauschweig. He became a psychoanalyst in the Societe Psychoanalytique de Paris in 1968...

     (born 1933), a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
  • Alain de Royer-Dupré
    Alain de Royer-Dupré
    Alain de Royer-Dupré is a leading French thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He grew up at the Haras de Saint Lô, a national stud farm in Normandy of which his father was Assistant Director and later Director, responsible for government-owned stallions based at farms in the local...

     (born 1944), a leading French racehorse trainer
  • Alain de Solminihac
    Alain de Solminihac
    Alain de Solminihac was a French Catholic religious reformer and bishop of Cahors. He was beatified in 1981.He was an Augustianian regular canon of Chancelade Abbey, Périgueux. He was a member of the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement.-Bibliography:...

     (1593–1659), a French Catholic religious reformer and bishop of Cahors
  • Alain Decaux
    Alain Decaux
    Alain Decaux was born on 23 July 1925 in Lille, France. A historian by profession, he was elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979.-Bibliography:* 1947 * 1949 ...

     (born 1925, a French historian
  • Alain Delon
    Alain Delon
    Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...

     (born 1935), a César Award-winning French actor
  • Alain Demurger
    Alain Demurger
    Alain Demurger is a modern French historian, and a leading specialist of the history of the Knights Templar and the Crusades.Alain Demurger is honorary maître de conférences at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne...

    , a modern French historian, specialist of the history of the Knights Templar and the Crusades
  • Alain Deneef
    Alain Deneef
    Alain Deneef is a Belgian businessman and urban expert.As an expert in urban issues and civil society, he is the founder and secretary general of Aula Magna a Brussels based think-tank created in 2005. Within Aula Magna he organized the first Brussels Citizens University...

    , a Belgian businessman
  • Alain Desrosières
    Alain Desrosières
    Alain Desrosières is a statistician at the INSEE and a sociologist and historian of science at the EHESS , well-known for his work in the history of statistics. He is the author of .-External links:...

    , a statistician at the INSEE and a sociologist and historian of science at the EHESS (France)
  • Alain Destexhe
    Alain Destexhe
    Alain Destexhe is a Belgian liberal politician. He was elected senator for the Francophone electoral college in 2003, and again in 2007. Destexhe is a member of the liberal Reformist Movement and represents Belgium in the World Economic Forum. He was awarded the Prize of Liberty by Nova Civitas...

    , a Belgian liberal politician
  • Alain Digbeu
    Alain Digbeu
    Alain Digbeu is a French professional basketball player. He was drafted by the NBA pro club the Atlanta Hawks with the 49th pick in the 1997 NBA Draft. He is 6'6" in height and 220 lbs. in weight...

     (born 1975), a French professional basketball player
  • Alain Dorval
    Alain Dorval
    Alain Dorval is a French voice actor born in Algiers. He is best known as the official dub-over artist of Sylvester Stallone, Nick Nolte, and the Disney character Pete. His voice can also be heard on the radio stations Skyrock and ADO.-Television animation:*Goof Troop *Once Upon a Time... Life...

     (born 1946), a French voice actor born in Algiers
  • Alain Dostie
    Alain Dostie
    Alain Dostie is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. His work includes Silk, The Red Violin and The Confessional...

     (born 1943), a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter
  • Alain Dubuc
    Alain Dubuc
    Alain Dubuc is a journalist and an economist from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a columnist for Montreal's La Presse, Quebec City's Le Soleil and five other dailies in Quebec. He is a notable advocate of center-right fiscal politics and the Quebec federalist ideology.- Biography :Alain Dubuc is...

    , a journalist and an economist from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Alain Ducasse
    Alain Ducasse
    Alain Ducasse is a Monégasque chef. He formerly held French nationality. He operates a number of restaurants including Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester which holds three stars in the Michelin Guide....

     (born 1956), a famous Monégasque chef
  • Alain Dufaut
    Alain Dufaut
    Alain Dufaut is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Vaucluse department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:*...

     (born 1944), a member of the Senate of France, representing the Vaucluse department
  • Alain Duhamel
    Alain Duhamel
    Alain Duhamel is a prominent French journalist and political commentator.In 1963, Duhamel started working at Le Monde. He started giving talks on Europe 1 from 1974...

     (born 1940), a French journalist and political commentator
  • Alain Elkann
    Alain Elkann
    Alain Elkann is an Italian novelist, intellectual, and journalist. Currently, Elkann is the conductor of cultural programs on Italian television. A recurring theme in his books is the history of the Jews in Italy, their centrality to Italian history, and the relation between the Jewish faith and...

     (born 1950), an Italian novelist and journalist of Jewish descent
  • Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon
    Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon
    Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon , was a Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV....

     (1646–1730), a Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV
  • Alain Enthoven
    Alain Enthoven
    Alain C. Enthoven is an American economist. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965, and from 1965 to 1969 he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Currently he is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford...

     (born 1930), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965
  • Alain Escoffier
    Alain Escoffier
    Alain Escoffier was a French anti-communist activist.He was a bank clerk and he had married an East-Germany refugee...

     (1949–1977), a French anti-communist activist and martyr
  • Alain Etchegoyen
    Alain Etchegoyen
    Alain Etchegoyen , was a philosopher and novelist. He was the last Plan Commissionner before that Commission was abrogated...

     (1951–2007), a philosopher and novelist
  • Alain Eyobo
    Alain Eyobo
    Oscar Alain Eyobo Makongo is a retired Cameroonian professional football forward. He played for clubs in Africa and Europe.-Club career:Eyobo played for Dynamo Douala in Cameroon...

     (born 1961), a retired Cameroonian professional football forward
  • Alain F. Carpentier
    Alain F. Carpentier
    Alain Frédéric Carpentier M.D. Ph.D. is a French surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the father of modern mitral valve repair. He is the recipient of the 2007 Lasker Prize.-Biography:A professor emeritus at Pierre and Marie Curie University, in the...

     M.D. Ph.D. (born 1933), a French heart surgeon
  • Alain Fauconnier
    Alain Fauconnier
    Alain Fauconnier is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Aveyron department and is a member of the Socialist Party.-References:*...

     (born 1945), a French politician and a member of the Senate of France
  • Alain Ferry
    Alain Ferry
    Alain Ferry is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Bas-Rhin department, and is a member of the Radical Party. He is the mayor of Wisches, Bas-Rhin.-References:...

     (born 1952), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Ferté
    Alain Ferté
    Alain Ferté is a professional racing driver. He is the elder brother of Michel Ferté, who is also a professional racing driver.Alain Ferté competed five seasons in Formula 3000 1985-1989...

     (born 1955), a professional racing driver
  • Alain Figaret
    Alain Figaret
    Alain Figaret is a French luxury shirt brand launched in 1968 by Alain Figaret. The first boutique was opened in 1970 in rue de Longchamp in Paris under the name of Princeton....

    , a French luxury shirt brand launched in 1968 by Alain Figaret
  • Alain Finkielkraut
    Alain Finkielkraut
    Alain Finkielkraut is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish-Polish manufacturer of fine leather goods who had been deported to Auschwitz and survived. He currently teaches at the École polytechnique as professor of the "history of ideas and modernity" in the department of humanities and social...

     (born 1949), a French essayist, and son of a Jewish Polish artisan
  • Alain Fouché
    Alain Fouché
    Alain Fouché is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Vienne department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.-References:*...

     (born 1942), a French politician and a member of the Senate of France
  • Alain Fournier
    Alain Fournier
    Alain Fournier was a computer graphics researcher.- Biography :Alain Fournier was born on November 5, 1943 in Lyon, France. He was married twice, first to Beverly Bickle and later to Adrienne Drobnies, with whom he had one daughter, Ariel.Fournier's early training was in chemistry, culminating in...

     (1943–2000), a computer graphics researcher
  • Alain Garant
    Alain Garant
    Alain Garant was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a Chartered Accountant by career....

     (born 1952), a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • Alain Gaspoz
    Alain Gaspoz
    Alain Gaspoz is a Beninese football player who, is playing for FC Bagnes.-International:He was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.-External links:* *...

     (born 1970), a Beninese football player who, is playing for FC Bagnes
  • Alain Geiger
    Alain Geiger
    Alain Geiger is a retired Swiss international football defender and current manager. He is currently the head coach manager of Al-Masry in the Egyptian Premier League....

     (born 1960), a retired Swiss international football defender and current manager
  • Alain Gerbault
    Alain Gerbault
    Alain J. Gerbault was a French aviator and tennis champion, who made a circumnavigation of the world as a single-handed sailor. He eventually settled in the islands of south Pacific Ocean, where he wrote several books about the islanders' way of life.- Early life :Alain Gerbault was born on...

     (1893–1941), a French aviator, tennis champion and sailor
  • Alain Gest
    Alain Gest
    Alain Gest is a French politician. He was elected on 16 June 2002 to the 12th French National Assembly, representing the sixth district of Somme. He was reelected on 17 June 2007 to the 13th French National Assembly. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement party.- References :...

     (born 1950), a French politician
  • Alain Giletti
    Alain Giletti
    Alain Giletti is a French figure skater. He is the 1960 World champion, the 1955-1957 & 1960-1961 European champion and is a ten-time French national champion. At the age of 12, he represented France at the 1952 Winter Olympics, where he placed 7th...

     (born 1939), a French figure skater
  • Alain Giresse (born 1952), a French professional football (soccer) midfielder
  • Alain Glavieux
    Alain Glavieux
    Alain Glavieux , was a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne...

     (died 2004), professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
  • Alain Goma
    Alain Goma
    Alain Goma is a retired French footballer who played as a right or central defender.In a 16-year professional career, he played in 196 Ligue 1 games, almost all for Auxerre, adding 147 in the Premier League, namely with Fulham....

     (born 1972), a former football player
  • Alain Goraguer
    Alain Goraguer
    Alain Goraguer is a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer. He reached his creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s...

     (born 1931), a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer
  • Alain Gouaméné
    Alain Gouaméné
    Pierre Alain Gouaméné Guiahouli is a former Ivorian footballer and now head coach of the Ivory coast U23 National team.-Career:The goalkeeper played for ASEC Mimosas, Raja Casablanca, FC Toulouse, SCO Angers and FC Lorient....

     (born 1966), a former football goalkeeper from Côte d'Ivoire
  • Alain Gournac
    Alain Gournac
    Alain Gournac is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Yvelines department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.-References:*...

     (born 1943), a French politician and a member of the Senate of France
  • Alain Grandbois
    Alain Grandbois
    Alain Grandbois, was a Canadian Quebecer poet, considered the first great modern one.Traveling around the world in 1918-1939 and sharing the hopes and problems of contemporary man, his work combined the themes of exploring the secrets of the world and studying human destiny, the writing and...

    , CC (1900–1975), a Quebecer poet born in Saint-Casimir, Quebec
  • Alain Guionnet
    Alain Guionnet
    Alain Guionnet is a French revisionist and a left-wing activist.As a student, he got a masters degree in history and a licenciate degree in AES. During his youth, he led a far-left group called « Oser lutter » based in Issy-les-Moulineaux area...

     (born 1954), a French revisionist and a left-wing activist
  • Alain Haché
    Alain Haché
    Alain Haché is an experimental physicist, a professor at the University of Moncton, Canada. Since 2003 he holds the Canada Research Chair in Photonics...

     (born 1970), an experimental physicist and associate professor at the University of Moncton, Canada
  • Alain Hamer
    Alain Hamer
    Alain Hamer is a Luxembourgan football referee. He has refereed over 50 matches in the UEFA Champions League, the first in 2000-01. He has also refereed a match in the African Cup of Nations and close to 30 matches in the French Ligue 1...

     (born 1965), a Luxembourgan football referee
  • Alain Héroux
    Alain Heroux
    Alain Héroux is a former professional ice hockey left winger. He was drafted in the first round, 19th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. He never played in the National Hockey League, however...

     (born 1964), a former professional ice hockey left winger
  • Alain Hertoghe
    Alain Hertoghe
    Alain Hertoghe is a Belgian journalist, formerly an employee of the French Catholic newspaper La Croix. He was fired in December 2003 after writing a book critical of the coverage of the U.S...

     (born 1959), a Belgian journalist who worked for the French Catholic newspaper La Croix
  • Alain Houpert
    Alain Houpert
    Alain Houpert is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Côte-d'Or department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.-References:*...

     (born 1957), a French politician and a member of the Senate of France
  • Alain Huetz de Lemps
    Alain Huetz de Lemps
    Alain Huetz de Lemps is a French geographer and botanist. He is a lecturer at Bordeaux University and Honoris Causa professor of the University of Valladolid...

    , a French geographer and botanist
  • Alain Hutchinson
    Alain Hutchinson
    Alain Hutchinson is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development where he is Coordinator for the Socialist group.He is a...

     (born 1949), a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament
  • Alain I of Albret
    Alain I of Albret
    Alain I of Albret , called "The Great", was a powerful French aristocrat. He was 16th Lord of Albret, Viscount of Tartas, the 2nd Count of Graves, and the Count of Castres. He was the son of Catherine de Rohan and Jean I of Albret...

     (1440–1522), a powerful French aristocrat
  • Alain J. P. Belda
    Alain J. P. Belda
    Alain J. P. Belda has been a Managing Director of Warburg Pincus since 2009. Previously he was the Chairman of the Board of Alcoa from January 2001; he was Chief Executive Officer from January 2001 until May 2008.-Business experience:...

    , Chairman of the Board of Alcoa since January 2001
  • Alain Jacquet
    Alain Jacquet
    Alain Jacquet was a French artist representative of the American Pop Art movement.-Life and career:Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Though he studied architecture at École des Beaux-Arts as a painter he was an autodidact.Camouflage Botticelli is a famous work of his...

     (1939–2008), a French artist representative of the American Pop Art movement
  • Alain Jessua
    Alain Jessua
    Alain Jessua is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. His 1967 film Jeu de massacre was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Screenplay....

     (born 1932), a French film director and screenwriter
  • Alain Johannes
    Alain Johannes
    Alain Johannes Moschulski is a guitarist and, along with his late partner Natasha Shneider and drummer Jack Irons, a founding member of the band Eleven...

     (born 1962), a guitarist and member of the band Eleven
  • Alain Johns
    Alain Johns
    Alain Johns is a fictional character in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.Alain was a member of Roland Deschain's original ka-tet along with Cuthbert Allgood and Jamie De Curry. In the original version of The Gunslinger, Alain was not mentioned, although Roland recalls having a friend named 'Allen'...

    , a fictional gunslinger in Stephen King's Dark Tower series of novels
  • Alain Joly
    Alain Joly
    Alain Joly is a French businessman. He was CEO of Air Liquide.- References :...

    , a French businessman
  • Alain Joyandet
    Alain Joyandet
    Alain Joyandet is a French politician who was appointed Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophony in the government of François Fillon from March 18, 2008 to July 2010. Prior to that, he was CEO of the Société Nouvelle des Éditions Comtoises , a publisher of weekly newspapers and journals...

     (born 1954), a French politician
  • Alain Junior Ollé Ollé
    Alain Junior Ollé Ollé
    Alain Junior Ollé Ollé is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Stabæk Fotball in Norway, as a midfielder.-Football career:Ollé Ollé started his senior career in Uruguay, with lowly Plaza Colonia...

     (born 1987), Cameroonian professional footballer
  • Alain Juppé
    Alain Juppé
    Alain Marie Juppé is a French politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He also served as Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac and the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2010 to 2011...

     (born 1945), a French right-wing politician, Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997
  • Alain Kashama
    Alain Kashama
    Alain Kaleta Olony T. Kashama is a professional Canadian football defensive end for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2004...

     (born 1979), a professional Canadian footballer
  • Alain Koffi
    Alain Koffi
    Alain Koffi is a French professional basketball player.- French national team :Koffi has been a member of the French national basketball team.- Honors :Le Mans*French Cup: 2**2004 2009...

     (born 1983), a French professional basketball player
  • Alain Koudou
    Alain Koudou
    Alain Koudou , commonly known as Arunina, is an Ivorian footballer who plays for French Championnat de France amateur club USJA Carquefou.-Career:...

     (born 1984), an Ivorian football striker
  • Alain Krivine
    Alain Krivine
    Alain Krivine is a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He is a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire , which is the French section of the reunified Fourth International. He was a member of the LCR's political bureau until March 2006, when he resigned from that committee...

     (born 1941), a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France
  • Alain Lamassoure
    Alain Lamassoure
    Alain Lamassoure is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.He is a substitute for the...

     (born 1944), a French politician and Member of the European Parliament
  • Alain Lambert
    Alain Lambert
    Alain Lambert is a French politician. He is a notary by profession.He has been involved in politics since 1983 and has served as a local councillor in Alençon and a councillor on both the department council of Orne and the regional council of Basse Normandie. Between May 7, 2002 and March 30,...

     (born 1946), a French politician
  • Alain Le Boulluec
    Alain Le Boulluec
    Alain le Boulluec is a contemporary French patristics scholar working mainly in the sphere of Clement of Alexandria and of Origen of Alexandria. He has recently retired from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris....

    , a contemporary French patristics scholar
  • Alain Le Bussy
    Alain Le Bussy
    Alain Le Bussy was a prolific Belgian author of science fiction who won the Prix Rosny-Aîné in 1993 for his novel Deltas. He died on October 14, 2010, from complications following throat surgery....

     (born 1947), a prolific Belgian author of science fiction
  • Alain Le Vern
    Alain Le Vern
    Alain Le Vern is a French Socialist Senator and is president of the Haute-Normandie region. He is also the inaugural President of the transnational Arc Manche Assembly....

     (born 1948), a French Socialist Senator, president of the Haute-Normandie region
  • Alain Lebas
    Alain Lebas
    Alain Lebas is a French sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-1 1000 m event at Moscow in 1980....

     (born 1953), a French sprint canoer
  • Alain Lefèvre
    Alain Lefèvre
    Alain Lefèvre, CQ is a Quebecois pianist and composer. He is one of the Québécois pianists who have sold the greatest number of musical recordings.In 2009, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec....

     (born 1962), a Québécois pianist and composer
  • Alain Lemercier
    Alain Lemercier
    Alain Lemercier is a retired male race walker from France, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics during his career.-Achievements:-References:*...

     (born 1957), a retired male race walker from France
  • Alain Lemieux
    Alain Lemieux
    Alain Lemieux is a retired ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League with the St. Louis Blues, Quebec Nordiques, and Pittsburgh Penguins.- Career :In 1986 he also played in Switzerland for EHC Olten...

     (born 1962), a retired ice hockey player
  • Alain Lequeux
    Alain Lequeux
    Alain Lequeux was one of France's leading jockeys in the 1970s and 1980s. He won 33 Group or Grade 1 races, including the 1981 Washington, D.C. International Stakes aboard Providential for trainer Charlie Whittingham. Son of leading French rider Guy Lequeux, he won more than 2,000 races while...

     (1947–2006), a French jockey
  • Alain Lestié
    Alain Lestié
    Alain Lestié is a French painter and writer, born in Hossegor in 1944, who lives and works in Cannes and in Paris.Since the end of the 1960s, Alain Lestié's work has been a reflection on the critical dimension of painting.- Exhibitions :...

     (born 1944), a French painter and writer
  • Alain Lipietz
    Alain Lipietz
    Alain Lipietz is a French engineer, economist and politician, a Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party.-Education:...

     (born 1947), a French engineer, economist, politician, member of the French Green Party
  • Alain Liri
    Alain Liri
    Serge Alain Liri is a Côte d'Ivoire footballer. He played for APOP Kinyras Peyias in Cyprus.-External links:...

     (born 1979), a Côte d'Ivoire footballer
  • Alain Locke (1885–1954), an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts
  • Alain Lombard
    Alain Lombard
    Alain Lombard is a French conductor.-Career:Lombard attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where his studied violin with Line Talleul and conducting with Gaston Poulet. He subsequently secured an appointment at the Opéra National de Lyon in 1961, and later became principal conductor from 1961 to 1965...

     (born 1940), a French conductor
  • Alain Mabanckou
    Alain Mabanckou
    Alain Mabanckou is an author and journalist who currently resides in the United States.-Life:Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966. He spent his childhood in the coastal village of Pointe-Noire where he received his baccalaureate in Letters and Philosophy at the Lycée Karl Marx...

     (born 1966), an author and journalist
  • Alain Maca
    Alain Maca
    Alain F. Maca is a retired Belgian-American soccer defender who is the President of the JFK International Air Terminal . Maca was the first person drafted by the North American Soccer League and spent four seasons in the league. He also earned five caps with the U.S. national team between 1973...

    , a retired American soccer defender, President of the JFK International Air Terminal
  • Alain Madelin
    Alain Madelin
    Alain Madelin is a French politician and a former minister of that country.Madelin, a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election as the leader of the Démocratie Libérale party, where he scored 3.91% on the first round...

     (born 1946), a French politician and former minister
  • Alain Mafart
    Alain Mafart
    Alain Mafart is a French military officer best known for his part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.Mafart was a DGSE agent and deputy commander of the French Navy Training Centre in Corsica...

    , a French military officer
  • Alain Maindron
    Alain Maindron
    Alain Maindron is an animation supervisor.In 1985, after his diploma from the art school of Angoulême, France, reputed for its comic strip département, Alain animated on various pilots and TV series. He moved to London in 1987 to direct or work on animated commercials...

    , an animation supervisor
  • Alain Mamou-Mani
    Alain Mamou-Mani
    Alain Mamou-Mani, born 26 December 1949 in Nabeul, Tunisia is a French film producer and writer.-Filmography:* 2003 : Rire et Chatiment directed by Isabelle Doval* 2003 : Alila directed by Amos Gitai* 2004 : Promised Land directed by Amos Gitai...

    , a French film producer and writer
  • Alain Manesson Mallet
    Alain Manesson Mallet
    Alain Manesson Mallet was a French cartographer and engineer.He started his career as a soldier in the army of Louis XIV, became a Sergeant-Major in the artillery and an Inspector of Fortifications. He also served under the King of Portungal, before returning to France, and his appointment to the...

     (1630–1706), a French cartographer and engineer
  • Alain Marc
    Alain Marc
    Alain Marc is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the third constituency of the Aveyron department, and is a member of the Radical Party.-References:...

     (born 1957), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Marion
    Alain Marion
    Alain Marion was a French flutist, and considered one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century.-Biography:...

     (1938–1998), a French flautist
  • Alain Marleix
    Alain Marleix
    Alain Marleix born on January 2, 1946 in Paris is a French politician. He was the Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from June 2007 to March 2008...

     (born 1946), Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from 2007 to 2008
  • Alain Marty
    Alain Marty
    Alain Marty is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Moselle department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:...

     (born 1946), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Masudi
    Alain Masudi
    Alain Masudi is a Congolese football player who currently plays in Ironi Nir Ramat HaSharon.He was part of the Congolese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals...

     (born 1978), a Congolese football player
  • Alain Maury
    Alain Maury
    Alain J. Maury is a French astronomer.He discovered the periodic comet 115P/Maury as well as the non-periodic C/1988 C1 ....

    , a French astronomer
  • Alain Menu
    Alain Menu
    Alain Menu is a Swiss racing driver. He was one of the most successful touring car drivers of the 1990s, winning the prestigious British Touring Car Championship twice . He currently races for Chevrolet in the World Touring Car Championship.- BTCC :He is the son of a farmer...

     (born 1963), a Swiss racing driver
  • Alain Merchadier
    Alain Merchadier
    Alain Merchadier is a French retired professional football defender.-External links:**...

     (born 1952), a French retired professional football defender
  • Alain Mesili
    Alain Mesili
    Alain Mesili is a climber and mountain guide, photographer and political activist based in La Paz, Bolivia.Mesili, a political activist in France during the 1968 disturbances, grew frustrated with the failings of the French Communist Party. He left France in 1969 and went, together with a number...

    , a political activist in France during the 1968 disturbances
  • Alain Meslet
    Alain Meslet
    Alain Meslet was a French professional road bicycle racer.- Palmarès :19761977- External links :*...

     (born 1950) was a French professional road bicycle racer
  • Alain Meunier
    Alain Meunier
    Alain Meunier is a French cellist.Meunier was born in Paris, the third child among four siblings. Starting the cello at the age of 13 and received premier prix in chamber music at 15 and in cello at 16...

     (born 1942), a French cellist
  • Alain Michel Ekoue
    Alain Michel Ekoue
    Alain Michel Ekwe is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a forward. He also has Portuguese nationality, due to the many years spent in the country....

    , a Cameroonian football player
  • Alain Mikli
    Alain Mikli
    Alain Mikli is a French designer of high-end handmade eyeglasses and accessories. Mikli's line features unique colors and shapes, and are a favorite among European celebrities and avant-garde Americans. Mikli claims his use of color is inspired by his Armenian-Lebanese heritage.In 1978, Mikli...

     (born 1955), a French designer of high-end handmade eyeglasses and accessories
  • Alain Milon
    Alain Milon
    Alain Milon is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Vaucluse department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:*...

     (born 1947), a member of the Senate of France
  • Alain Mimoun
    Alain Mimoun
    Alain Mimoun is a retired French runner and Olympic marathon champion.-Early life:Born in El Telagh, then in French Algeria, Mimoun lost several years of competition to World War II...

     (born 1921), a French Olympic marathon champion
  • Alain Moizan
    Alain Moizan
    Alain Moizan is a retired French professional football midfielder.In February 2008, he was appointed coach of the Mauritania national football team, his second national team coaching job after a short stint with Mali in 2004.-External links:*...

     (born 1953), a French retired professional football midfielder
  • Alain Moka
    Alain Moka
    Alain Moka is a Congolese politician. He was Minister of Health and Population in the government of Congo-Brazzaville from 2002 to 2005 and is currently a Deputy in the National Assembly.-Political career:...

     (born 1954), a Congolese politician
  • Alain Moyne-Bressand
    Alain Moyne-Bressand
    Alain Moyne-Bressand is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Isère department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:...

     (born 1945), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Muana Kizamba
    Alain Muana Kizamba
    Alain Muana Kinzaba is a goalkeeper from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He played in DC Motema Pembe and has played for DR Congo national team. In 2006 he was transferred from DC Motema Pembe to Sport Luanda e Benfica.-External links:...

    , a goalkeeper from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Alain Néri
    Alain Néri
    Alain Néri is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Puy-de-Dôme department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-References:...

     (born 1942), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Nasreddine
    Alain Nasreddine
    Alain Nasreddine is a Canadian former professional ice hockey Defenseman who played in the National Hockey League...

     (born 1975), a professional ice hockey defenceman
  • Alain Ndizeye
    Alain Ndizeye
    Alain Bangama Ndizeye is a Burundian defender who plays with AS Inter Star in the Burundi Premier League.- Club career :...

     (born 1986), a Burundian football defender
  • Alain Ndjoubi Ossami
    Alain Ndjoubi Ossami
    Alain Ndjoubi Ossami is a Gabonese politician and economist. He is the current national secretary of economy, finance, commerce and industry under the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party .-References:...

    , a Gabonese politician and economist
  • Alain Nef
    Alain Nef
    Alain Nef is a Swiss football defender who currently plays for BSC Young Boys.- Career :Before he played for Piacenza Calcio and FC Zürich...

     (born 1982), a Swiss football defender
  • Alain Ngalani
    Alain Ngalani
    Alain "The Panther" Ngalani is a Cameroonian-born kickboxer and two-time Muay Thai world champion, fighting out of and representing Hong Kong. He is known for his speed and trademark move "The Panther High Kick".-Biography and career:...

     (born 1975), a two-time Muay Thai kickboxing world champion
  • Alain Nkong
    Alain Nkong
    Alain N'Kong is a Cameroonian football midfielder who is currently playing for Atjeh United F.C..- Career :Early in his career, N'Kong played all over the world, including Las Palmas in Spain, Nacional in Uruguay, and FC Paços de Ferreira in Portugal...

     (born 1979), a Cameroonian football midfielder
  • Alain Paquet
    Alain Paquet
    Alain Paquet is a Quebec politician, teacher and economist. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Laval-des-Rapides and currently serves as the province's Delegate Minister of Finance, a position he has held since February 3, 2011...

     (born 1961), a Quebec politician, teacher and economist
  • Alain Pasquier
    Alain Pasquier
    Alain Pasquier is a French art historian specialising in ancient Greek art, museography and conservation.- Biography :Former student of the École Normale Supérieure and successful candidate of the Agrégation de lettres classiques , Pasquier became a student of the French School at Athens from...

     (born 1942), a French art historian specialising in ancient Greek art, museography and conservation
  • Alain Passard
    Alain Passard
    Alain Passard is a French chef and owner of the three star restaurant L'Arpège in Paris.The son of musicians, Passard is also passionate about music, playing the saxophone. He recently released his first book, Les Recettes des Drôles de Petites Bêtes, a recipe book written especially for children...

     (born 1956), a French chef and owner of the three star restaurant L'Arpège in Paris
  • Alain Paul Lebeaupin
    Alain Paul Lebeaupin
    Archbishop Alain Paul Lebeaupin was born in Paris, France, on 2 March 1945. He is the Apostolic nuncio to Kenya.-Education:Lebeaupin was ordained into priesthood on 28 June 1975 for the Diocese of Nice after studying at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome.He holds a Doctorate in Civil Law and...

     (born 1945), Archbishop
  • Alain Paul Martin
    Alain Paul Martin
    Alain Paul Martin is the author of books on strategic intelligence and proactive thinking. He has advised the Director General of UNESCO on priority setting, principle-based leadership and strategic issues. He has served as Executive Member of the non-partisan Committee of the PrimeMinister of...

    , author of books on strategic intelligence and proactive thinking.
  • Alain Payet
    Alain Payet
    Alain Payet , also known under the pseudonyms John Love, John Pardaillan, John and Frederick Brasil Amor, James Gardner, James Gartner, Alain Garnier was a film director of French porn movies and erotica.- Biography :He began his career in 70s and for a decade served as an assistant director on...

     (1947–2007), a French director of Nazi exploitation and chic porn movies
  • Alain Pellegrini
    Alain Pellegrini
    Alain Pellegrini is a French general.A former student of the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, Pellegrini graduated from general staff schools before being appointed in Africa and the Middle East, and commanding a regiment of the troupes de marine in Fréjus...

     (born 1946), a French général de Division
  • Alain Perrin (born 1956), a French football manager and former footballer
  • Alain Peyrefitte
    Alain Peyrefitte
    Alain Peyrefitte was a French scholar and politician.He was a confidant of Charles De Gaulle and had a long career in public service, serving as a diplomat in Germany and Poland....

     (1925–1999), a French scholar and politician
  • Alain Pilon
    Alain Pilon
    Alain Pilon is a Quebec politician and businessman in Gatineau, Quebec. He is the councillor of the Val-Tetreau District in the Hull sector....

     (born 1960), a Quebec politician and businessman in Gatineau, Quebec
  • Alain Poher
    Alain Poher
    Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher was a French centrist politician, affiliated first with the Popular Republican Movement and later with the Democratic Centre. He served as a Senator for Val-de-Marne from 1946 to 1995. He was President of the Senate from 3 October 1968 to 1 October 1992 and, in that...

     (1909–1996), a French centrist politician
  • Alain Poiré
    Alain Poiré
    Alain Poiré is a French film producer and screenwriter from Paris, France.-Career:He graduated from law school and worked for advertising group Havas...

     (1917–2000), a French film producer and screenwriter
  • Alain Pompidou
    Alain Pompidou
    Alain Pompidou is a French scientist and politician. A former professor of histology, embryology and cytogenetics, he was the fourth president of the European Patent Office from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2007...

     (born 1942), a French scientist and politician
  • Alain Portes
    Alain Portes
    Alain Portes is a French handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.He was born in Béziers.In 1992 he was a member of the French handball team which won the bronze medal. He played four matches and scored nine goals.-External links:*...

     (born 1961), a French handball player
  • Alain Portmann
    Alain Portmann
    Alain Portmann is a Swiss football goalkeeper, who currently plays for FC Breitenrain .He won promotion to Swiss Super League with SR Delémont in 2002.-References:**...

     (born 1981), a Swiss football goalkeeper
  • Alain Prost
    Alain Prost
    Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio , and Michael Schumacher . From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix...

     (born 1955), a French racing driver
  • Alain Provost
    Alain Provost
    Allain Provost is a French Landscape Architect. His works include designs for the Parc Floral in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris, Parc André Citroën in Paris, the Jardin Diderot at La Défense, La Courneuve Park in Seine-Saint-Denis, Ile-de-France, the Eurotunnel in Calais , the Technocentre Renault,...

    , a French Landscape Architect
  • Alain Rémond
    Alain Rémond
    Alain Rémond is a famous French humor columnist, born in 1946 in Mortain .-Biography:Alain Rémond was born into a modest Breton family...

     (born 1946), a French humor columnist
  • Alain Raguel
    Alain Raguel
    Alain Raguel is a currently unattached French footballer. He last played for Olympiakos Volou in Greece.-External links:* ***...

     (born 1976), French football player
  • Alain Rakotondramanana
    Alain Rakotondramanana
    Alain Rakotondramanana is a Malagasy footballer currently plays for USCA Foot.-External links:*...

     (born 1970), a Malagasy footballer
  • Alain Resnais
    Alain Resnais
    Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...

     (born 1922), a French New Wave film director
  • Alain Rey
    Alain Rey
    Alain Rey is a French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality. He is the editor-in-chief at French dictionary publisher Dictionnaires Le Robert.- Biography :...

     (born 1928) is a French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality
  • Alain Rey (ski mountaineer)
    Alain Rey (ski mountaineer)
    Alain Rey is a Swiss ski mountaineer.- Results :* 2005:** 9th European Championship vertical race* 2006:** 3rd World Championship relay race together with Alexander Hug, Rico Elmer and Florent Troillet...

     (born 1982), a Swiss ski mountaineer
  • Alain Richard
    Alain Richard
    Alain Richard, born on 29 August 1945, in Paris, is a French politician. An alumnus of the Ecole nationale d'administration, he was mayor of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône and member of the French parliament, elected in Val d'Oise. A member of the French socialist party and ally of Lionel Jospin, he was the...

     (born 1945), a French politician
  • Alain Richard (ski mountaineer)
    Alain Richard (ski mountaineer)
    Alain Richard is a Swiss ski mountaineer.- Selected results :* 2004:** 3rd, World Championship relay race * 2006:...

     (born 1985), a Swiss ski mountaineer
  • Alain Riel
    Alain Riel
    Alain Riel is a Quebec municipal politician in Gatineau, Canada. He is the councillor of the Deschênes District in the Aylmer sector.Riel studied at the University of Ottawa and obtained a bachelor's degree in history and geography and a master's degree in physical geography.After being a teacher...

    , a Quebec municipal politician in Gatineau, Quebec
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet
    Alain Robbe-Grillet
    Alain Robbe-Grillet , was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice...

     (1922–2008), a French writer and filmmaker
  • Alain Robert
    Alain Robert
    Alain Robert , is a French rock and urban climber, from Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France...

     (born 1962), a French rock and urban climber
  • Alain Robidoux
    Alain Robidoux
    Alain Robidoux is a Canadian snooker player; he played on the World Snooker tour from 1988 to 2005 and continues to play in events in Canada.-Career:...

     (born 1960), a Canadian snooker player
  • Alain Roca
    Alain Roca
    Alain Roca Borrero is a volleyball player from Cuba. A two-time Olympian , he was honoured Best Setter at the 2001 Volleyball America's Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Cuba finished in second place.Currently playing on SKY / Pinheiros -Honours:* 1996 FIVB World League — 4th place* 1996...

     (born 1976), a retired volleyball player from Cuba
  • Alain Rochat
    Alain Rochat
    Alain Rochat is a Swiss footballer who plays for Vancouver Whitecaps FC in Major League Soccer.-Switzerland:...

     (born 1983), a Swiss footballer
  • Alain Roche
    Alain Roche
    Alain Roche is a former French association football defender. He spent significant time at the Paris Saint-Germain where he notably won the European Cup Winners' Cup...

    , a former French football defender
  • Alain Rohr
    Alain Rohr
    Alain Rohr is a Swiss athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles.Rohr finished fourth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Cédric El-Idrissi, Martin Leiser and Andreas Oggenfuss...

     (born 1971), a Swiss athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles
  • Alain Rolland
    Alain Rolland
    Alain Colm Pierre Rolland is an Irish rugby union referee and former player.During his playing days as a scrum-half, Rolland earned three caps for . He started the match on 27 October 1990 against , and gained further caps as a replacement against in 1994 and the USA in 1995. He won 40 provincial...

     (born 1966), a former Irish rugby union footballer and current international referee
  • Alain Romans
    Alain Romans
    Alain Romans was a French jazz composer. He studied in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. His teachers included Vincent d'Indy. He later worked with Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt....

     (1905–1988), a French jazz composer
  • Alain Rousset
    Alain Rousset
    Alain Rousset is the Socialist president of the Aquitaine region of France, and a Deputy in the National Assembly of France, representing the 7th constituency of the Gironde....

     (born 1951), the Socialist president of the Aquitaine region of France
  • Alain Sailhac
    Alain Sailhac
    Alain Sailhac, born in Millau, France is an internationally recognized French chef working in New York City where he holds the position of Executive Vice President and Dean Emeritus at The French Culinary Institute. Sailhac earned the first ever four star rating from The New York Times while at Le...

    , Executive Vice President and Dean Emeritus at the French Culinary Institute in New York City
  • Alain Saint-Ogan
    Alain Saint-Ogan
    Alain Saint-Ogan was a French comics author and artist.-Biography:In 1925, he created the well-known comic strip Zig et Puce , which initially appeared in the Dimanche Illustré , the weekly youth supplement of the French daily newspaper, l'Excelsior.His other comic...

     (1895–1974), a French comics author and artist
  • Alain Sarde
    Alain Sarde
    Alain Sarde is a French film producer and actor who was born on the 28 March 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt. One of his films, Mulholland Drive received the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture. The Pianist was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the BAFTA Award for...

     (born 1952), a French film producer and actor
  • Alain Sars
    Alain Sars
    Alain Sars is a retired French professional football referee.Sars was involved in some controversy in the game between AIK and FC Barcelona when he wrongfully allowed a goal for Barcelona....

     (born 1961), a retired French professional football referee
  • Alain Savary
    Alain Savary
    Alain Savary was a French Socialist politician, deputy to the National Assembly of France during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party and a government minister in the 1950s and in 1981, when he was nominated by President François Mitterrand as Minister of National...

     (1918–1988), a French Socialist politician
  • Alain Schmitt
    Alain Schmitt
    -Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     (born 1983), a French judoka
  • Alain Schultz
    Alain Schultz
    Alain Schultz is a Swiss association footballer who plays for FC Wohlen.-External links:*...

     (born 1983), a Swiss association footballer
  • Alain Senderens
    Alain Senderens
    Alain Senderens is a leading French chef credited as one of the founders of Nouvelle Cuisine.He was the chef at Lucas Carton from 1985 until 2005, when he took over the restaurant and renamed it Alain Senderens...

    , a leading French chef credited as one of the founders of Nouvelle Cuisine
  • Alain Sergile
    Alain Sergile
    Alain Sergile is a Haitian swimmer who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He lived in Roswell, Georgia, and graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1994 where he was a member of the men's swimming and diving team. Sergile participated in the men's 100 meter...

    , a Haitian swimmer who lived in Roswell, Georgia
  • Alain Silver
    Alain Silver
    Alain Silver is a US film producer, film director, and screenwriter; music producer; film critic, film historian, DVD commentator, author and editor of books and essays on film topics, especially film noir and horror films.-Education:...

    , a US film and music producer, and reviewer, historian and writer on film topics, especially film noir and horror films
  • Alain Simard (businessman), President and CEO of L’Équipe Spectra since its inception in 1977
  • Alain Soral
    Alain Soral
    Alain Soral is a French essayist, and film maker, as well as being the author of several polemical essays. He is the brother of the actress Agnès Soral. Soral lives in the French Basque Country. Since June 2004, he has been a boxing coach...

     (born 1958), a French sociologist, essayist, and film maker, as well as being the author of several polemical essays
  • Alain Souchon
    Alain Souchon
    Alain Souchon is a French singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films.-Profile:...

     (born 1944), a French singer, songwriter and actor
  • Alain Suguenot
    Alain Suguenot
    Alain Suguenot is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Côte-d'Or department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:...

     (born 1951), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Suied
    Alain Suied
    Alain Suied was a French poet and translator.Suied was born in Tunis into what was then the Jewish community in that city. In 1959 he moved to Paris with his parents. His first poem was published in 1968 in the journal L'Ephemeral. Andre du Bouchet helped him get his first book published in 1970...

     (1951–2008), a French poet and translator
  • Alain Supiot
    Alain Supiot
    Alain Supiot is a French legal scholar.-Biographical Elements/Career Highlights:Ph.D. , Professor tenure , member of the « Institut Universitaire de France » , Ph.D...

    , a French legal scholar
  • Alain Sutter
    Alain Sutter
    Alain Sutter was one of the most successful Swiss football players during the 1990s.Sutter began his career in 1985 with Grasshoppers Zurich, one of Switzerland's most storied clubs...

     (born 1968), a Swiss football player
  • Alain Sylvestre
    Alain Sylvestre
    Alain "Wendigo" Sylvestre is a Canadian kickboxer and current Canadian Middleweight Muay Thai Champion. He is currently training at Sasiprapa gym in Bangkok, Thailand under the guidance of Ajarn Thakoon Pongsupha.-Biography and career:...

     (born 1979), a professional Canadian kickboxer
  • Alain Tabourian
    Alain Tabourian
    Alain Tabourian is a Lebanese politician of Armenian origin .- Biography :He has served as the minister of energy and previously was the minister of telecommunications. He is the son of the late MP André Tabourian. He is an engineer, and has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He is the...

    , a Lebanese politician of Armenian origin
  • Alain Tanner (born 1929), a Swiss film director
  • Alain Tardif
    Alain Tardif
    Alain Tardif was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a lawyer by career.He was elected in the 1979 federal election at the Richmond electoral district. He was re-elected in the 1980 and 1984 federal elections, the latter when his riding became known as Richmond—Wolfe...

     (born 1946), a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • Alain Touraine
    Alain Touraine
    Alain Touraine is a French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux . He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society"...

     (born 1925), a French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer
  • Alain Touwaide
    Alain Touwaide
    Alain Touwaide is a Belgian historian of medicine and sciences currently researching at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C....

     (born 1953), a Belgian historian of medicine and sciences currently researching at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.
  • Alain Traoré
    Alain Traoré
    Alain Sibiri Traoré is a Burkinabé footballer, who currently plays for AJ Auxerre.- Career :Traoré began his career with Planete Champion and was transferred in July 2005 to AJ Auxerre. On 4 January 2009, he was loaned out to Stade Brest 29 for six months. He returned to AJ Auxerre on 31 June...

     (born 1988), a Burkinabé football (soccer) midfielder
  • Alain Trudel
    Alain Trudel
    Alain Trudel is a Canadian musician, composer and conductor. He began his career playing the trombone, but has more recently turned to conducting....

     (born 1966), a Canadian musician, composer and conductor
  • Alain Turnier
    Alain Turnier
    Alain Turnier is a Haitian historian. He is the author of several best-selling books:* Les Etats-Unis et le Marché Haïtien* Avec Mérisier Jeannis* Quand la Nation Demande des Comptes-References:...

    , a Haitian historian
  • Alain Tytgadt
    Alain Tytgadt
    Alain Tytgadt is a Belgian businessman and a Director of the KBC Group.Alain Tytgadt obtained a degree in art history and archaeology from the University of Ghent and an MBA from Indiana University in Bloomington . He is CEO of Cobeton, and Managing Director of Metalunion, in addition he is also...

    , a Belgian businessman and a Director of the KBC Group
  • Alain Vanzo
    Alain Vanzo
    Alain Vanzo was a French opera singer and composer, one of few French tenors of international standing in the postwar era...

     (1928–2002), a French opera singer and composer
  • Alain Vasselle
    Alain Vasselle
    Alain Vasselle is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Oise department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:*...

     (born 1947), a member of the Senate of France representing the Oise department
  • Alain Vasseur
    Alain Vasseur
    Alain Vasseur was a French professional road bicycle racer. Alain Vasseur is the younger brother of cyclist Sylvain Vasseur, and the father of cyclists Cédric Vasseur and Loïc Vasseur.- Palmarès :19691970- External links :...

     (born 1948), a French professional road bicycle racer
  • Alain Viala
    Alain Viala
    Alain Viala is a professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and at the University of Paris III and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford...

    , a professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and the University of Paris III
  • Alain Vidalies
    Alain Vidalies
    Alain Vidalies is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Landes department, and is a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group.-References:...

     (born 1951), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Alain Vigneault (born 1961), the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL
  • Alain Vivien
    Alain Vivien
    Alain Vivien is a French Socialist Party politician, best known for chairing the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS, a ministerial organism designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "Sectes" .-Early career:He was mayor of...

     (born 1938), a French Socialist Party (PS) politician
  • Alain Wertheimer
    Alain Wertheimer
    Alain Wertheimer is a Jewish French businessman based in France who, with his brother Gerard own the controlling interest in the House of Chanel. The son of Jacques Wertheimer and Eliane Fischer, it was his grandfather Pierre who co-founded the Chanel business...

     (1949) is a French businessman who owns a controlling interest in the House of Chanel with his brother Gerard
  • Alain Whyte
    Alain Whyte
    Alain Gordon Whyte is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is most known for being Morrissey's main songwriting partner since 1991 and his lead guitarist from 1991-2004...

     (born 1967), an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter
  • Alain Wicki
    Alain Wicki
    Alain Wicki is a Swiss skeleton racer who competed from the 1980s to the early first decade of the 21st century. He won a complete set of medals in the men's event at the FIBT World Championships with a gold in 1989, a silver in 1998, and a bronze in 1982.Wicki won the overall men's Skeleton World...

    , a Swiss skeleton racer
  • Alain Williams
    Alain Williams
    Alan Williams is a British sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold and a bronze ....

     (born 1954), a British sprint canoer
  • Alain Zoubga
    Alain Zoubga
    Alain Dominique Zoubga is a medical doctor and politician in Burkina Faso. He was appointed minister of health by Blaise Compaoré following the 1987 coup d'état and served until 1989. Dr. Zougba currently leads the Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party .-References:* African Societies...

     (born 1953), a medical doctor and politician in Burkina Faso
  • Alain-Fournier
    Alain-Fournier
    Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier , a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes , which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature.-Biography:Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher...

     (1886–1914), the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier, a French author and soldier
  • Alain-Marcel Linse
    Alain-Marcel Linse
    Alain-Marcel Linse is a French artist born in Paris in 1956.Linse was educated in Marcelin Berthelot college and then he studied at Beaux-arts school in Paris. He moved to Brazil in 1994 and studied etching with Paulo Lisboa at Guignard University of Art of Minas Gerais .Linse is an abstract, but...

     (born 1956), a French artist born in Paris
  • Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle
    Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villele
    Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle was the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte, their amorous relationship being a subject of several of the latter's works...

     (1951–2000), the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte
  • Alain-René Lesage
    Alain-René Lesage
    Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks , his comedy Turcaret , and his picaresque novel Gil Blas .-Youth and education:Claude Lesage, the father of the novelist, held the united...

     (1668–1747), French novelist and playwright
  • Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o
    Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o
    Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o is a Cameroonian political figure who has served as Minister-Delegate at the Presidency of the Republic in charge of Defense since 2009. An important security official in Cameroon, he was previously the Delegate-General for National Security from 2004 to 2009.Mebe Ngo'o...

     (born 1957), a Cameroonian political figure
  • Etienne Alain Djissikadie
    Etienne Alain Djissikadie
    Etienne Alain Djissikadié is a Gabonese footballer currently playing for TP Mazembe.- Clubs :*01/2008 - present: TP Mazembe*06/2007 - 12/2007: AS Stade Mandji Port-Gentil*01/2004 - 06/2007: Sogéa FC...

     (born 1977), a Gabonese footballer
  • Georges-Alain Jones
    Georges-Alain Jones
    Georges-Alain Jones is a French singer. He participated in the second edition of French TV reality show Star Academy...

     (born 1975), a French singer
  • Jacques-Alain Bénisti
    Jacques-Alain Bénisti
    Jacques-Alain Bénisti is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Val-de-Marne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:...

     (born 1952), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Jacques-Alain Miller
    Jacques-Alain Miller
    Jacques-Alain Miller is a French academic. He is a Lacanian psychoanalyst.-Life and career:As a student at the École Normale Supérieure, he met his future father-in-law Jacques Lacan in 1964 while attending his seminars at the rue d'Ulm...

    , a prominent French Lacanian psychoanalyst
  • Jean-Alain Boumsong
    Jean-Alain Boumsong
    Jean-Alain Boumsong-Somkong is a professional football defender who currently plays for the Greek team Panathinaikos and the French national team.-Early career:...

     (born 1979), a professional football defender
  • Jean-Alain Fanchone
    Jean-Alain Fanchone
    Jean-Alain Fanchone is a French football player who currently plays for French club RC Strasbourg.-Career:...

     (born 1988), a French footballer
  • Marc-Alain Ouaknin
    Marc-Alain Ouaknin
    Marc-Alain Ouaknin was born in Paris in 1957.Both a rabbi and a philosopher, he is the son of Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin and Eliane Erlich Ouaknin Marc-Alain Ouaknin was born in Paris in 1957.Both a rabbi and a philosopher, he is the son of Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin (b. 1932, Marrakesh, Morocco) and Eliane...

     (born 1957), a rabbi and philosopher
  • Marie-Alain Couturier
    Marie-Alain Couturier
    Père Marie-Alain Couturier, known as Father Couturier was a Dominican friar, designer of stained glass windows, famous for his modern inspiration of Sacred art.-Life:...

     (1897–1954), a Dominican friar, designer of stained glass windows, famous for his modern inspiration of Sacred art
  • Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière
    Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière
    Colonel The Hon. Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière , de jure 2nd Marquis de Lotbinière...

     (1748–1822), a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada
  • Paul Alain Bingan
    Paul Alain Bingan
    Paul Alain Bingan is a professional Cameroonian footballer currently free agent.- Trivia :He began his career by Authentic F.C. Douala before transferred to Cotonsport Garoua, 2008 left the team.-External links:*...

     (born 1987), a professional Cameroonian footballer
  • Phil Alain
    Phil Alain
    Phil Alain is a Canadian painter.Phil Alain began his art career at the age of 13 in St. Albert, AlbertaCanada when his artwork was featured as the full cover image of the Can West publication - The Edmonton Journal....

     (born 1968), a Canadian painter
  • Pierre-Alain Donnier
    Pierre-Alain Donnier
    Pierre-Alain Donnier, waa Swiss journalist, died while reporting from Chad about the United Nations Development Program , on 13th of March 1988 in the Tibesti region.Is the only journalist from Swiss television to have perished while on report....

    , a Swiss journalist, died while reporting from Tchad in 1988
  • Pierre-Alain Frau
    Pierre-Alain Frau
    Pierre-Alain Frau, is a French football forward who plays for Caen in Ligue 1. Frau can operate on the right wing or play as a one of the two striker positions up front.- Career :...

    , (born 1980), a French football forward
  • Pierre-Alain Muet
    Pierre-Alain Muet
    Pierre-Alain Muet is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Rhône department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-References:...

     (born 1945), a member of the National Assembly of France
  • Yve-Alain Bois
    Yve-Alain Bois
    Yve-Alain Bois is an historian and critic of modern art. Yve-Alain Bois was born on April 16, 1952 in Constantine, Algeria.-Education:...

    (born 1952), an historian and critic of modern art
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