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André is a French and Portuguese masculine given name, the French form of Andrew

Andrew

Andrew is the English form of a given name and surname common in many countries. Alternatives include André, Andrey, Andrei, Andrej, András, Andrés, Andreas, Andreu, Anders and Endrew. ‘Andrew’ is a common name in English-speaking countries. In the 1990s it was among the top ten most popular names...

. It may refer to :

André (artist)
André (artist)
André aka Monsieur André aka Monsieur A, born Andre Saraiva is a French graffiti artist. He paints a distinctive stick-figure character, usually with a top hat and an 'X' in place of one of the eyes...

, a French graffiti artist
André (singer)
André (singer)
André, born Andrey Hovnanian is an Armenian singer. He won the Best Male Singer trophy at the Armenian Music Awards in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. In addition, he performs as a actor at the local theater in Stepanakert, in the Nagorno-Karabakh.-Early life :At the age of three André started...

, an Armenian pop star
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him....
André Ayew
André Ayew
André Morgan Rami Ayew is a Ghanaian football player who currently plays for French club Marseille in Ligue 1. He is often referred to as simply Dédé. Ayew plays as a winger, but can play as a striker...

, a football player from Ghana
André Benjamin, an American rapper and singer
André Beaufre
André Beaufre
André Beaufre was a French general. Beaufre ended World War II with the rank of colonel....

, a French military theorist
André Besette, a Holy Cross Brother
André Breton
André Breton
André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....

(1896-1966), a French author and surrealist theorist
André Chénier
André Chénier
André Marie Chénier was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement...

, a French poet
André Citroën
André Citroën
André-Gustave Citroën was a French industrialist. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his application of double helical gears.- Life and career :...

, a French inventor and carmaker
André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), a Brazilian water polo goalkeeper
André Cordeiro (swimmer)
André Cordeiro (swimmer)
André Cordeiro is a retired freestyle swimmer from Brazil. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- References :...

(born 1974), a Brazilian freestyle swimmer
André Gagnon
André Gagnon
André Gagnon, OC is a Canadian musician and composer. He shifted from a classical musical style to an adult contemporary style in the mid-1970s with albums such as Neiges....

, a Canadian musician
André Hazes
André Hazes
André Gerardus Hazes was a Dutch singer in a genre called levenslied which is a form of emotional folk music about everyday life sung in the Dutch language. André Hazes was one of the most successful singers in this genre...

, a Dutch folk singer
André Heller (volleyball)
André Heller (volleyball)
André Heller is a volleyball player from Brazil. A three-time Olympian , he played as a middle-blocker...

, a Brazilian volleyball player
André Jung
André Jung
André Jung is a Brazilian drummer and journalist, best known for his performances in the band Ira!. He has also been a member of Titãs, although he has released only one album with them. Curiously, the drummer that he replaced in Ira! went to play with Titãs, with whom he played with until 2010...

, a Brazilian journalist and rock drummer
André Kim
André Kim
Andre Kim was a South Korean fashion designer based in Seoul, South Korea. He was known predominantly for his evening and wedding gown collections.-Biography:Andre Kim was born in Goyang, Gyeonggi, Korea, as Kim Bong-nam...

, a South Korean fashion designer
André LaMothe
Andre LaMothe
André LaMothe is a computer scientist, author and embedded systems developer. He was responsible for the development of hardware and software for artificial intelligence research and worked specifically on the sparse distributed memory project at NASA's Research Institute for Advanced Computer...

, a computer programmer and technical writer
André Malraux
André Malraux
André Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...

, a French author
André Marin
André Marin
André Marin is the Ombudsman of Ontario. He was appointed in April 2005 and reappointed in June 2010 to a second five-year term...

, a Canadian ombudsman
André Masséna
André Masséna
André Masséna 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....

, a French military commander in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
André Moreira Neles
André Moreira Neles
André Moreira Neles , usually known as André Neles, is a naturalized Equatoguinean football striker. He currently plays for América-RN in the Brazilian Campeonato Potiguar.-Biography:...

, a naturalized Equatoguinean football striker and gospel singer
André Olbrich
André Olbrich
André Olbrich is the lead guitarist of the German power metal band Blind Guardian. He is one of the band's founders together with vocalist Hansi Kürsch, and serves as one of its main songwriters....

, a guitarist for Blind Guardian
André Raposo
André Raposo
André Raposo is a water polo player from Brazil. Nicknamed Quito he competed in two consecutive Pan American Games for his native country, starting in 2003. Cordeiro won two silver medals at this event with the Brazil men's national water polo team.-References:...

, a Brazilian water polo player
André Ribeiro
André Felipe Ribeiro de Souza
André Felipe Ribeiro de Souza , simply known as André, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Atlético Mineiro on loan from Dynamo Kyiv, and for the Brazilian national team....

, a Brazilian football player (born 1990), currently (2010) playing for FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football...

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André Rieu
André Rieu
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.- Early life and studies :...

, an orchestra conductor
André Romell Young, better known by his stage name Dr. Dre
André Tanneberger, a German DJ
André the Giant
André the Giant
André René Roussimoff , best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. His best remembered acting role was that of Fezzik, the giant in the film The Princess Bride...

, a professional wrestler and actor
André van Duin
André van Duin
André van Duin is a Dutch actor , singer, writer and program creator.-Television, radio and theatre:...

, a Dutch comic actor
André Weil
André Weil
André Weil was an influential mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition. He is especially known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry...

(1906–1998), a mathematician
André Zeller
André Zeller
André Zeller was a French Army general, one of the four generals who organized the Algiers putsch of 1961...

, a French general

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