Antoine
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Antoine is a French
given name (from Latin
Antonius
) meaning beyond praise or highly praise-worthy.
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
given name (from Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
Antonius
Antonius
Antonius is the nomen of the gens Antonia, one of the most important plebeian families at Rome. It is also the source of the English personal name Anthony, as well as a number of similar names in various European languages....
) meaning beyond praise or highly praise-worthy.
As a first name
- Antoine ArbogastAntoine ArbogastLouis François Antoine Arbogast was a French mathematician. He was born at Mutzig in Alsace and died at Strasbourg, where he was professor. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity...
, French mathematician - Antoine ArnauldAntoine ArnauldAntoine Arnauld — le Grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father — was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician...
, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician - Antoine Audet, Member of the Canadian House of CommonsCanadian House of CommonsThe House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
- Antoine, bastard of BurgundyAntoine, bastard of BurgundyAnthony , known to his contemporaries as "the bastard of Burgundy" or "the Grand Bastard - le grand bâtard" - was the natural son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, and one of his mistresses, Jeanne de Presle.-Life:...
- Antoine BéchampAntoine BéchampPierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp was a French biologist. He studied silkworm parasites, and was the first to synthesise Atoxyl.-Biography:...
, French biologist - Antoine BibescoAntoine BibescoAntoine, Prince Bibesco was a Romanian aristocrat, lawyer, diplomat and writer.- Biography :His father was Prince Alexandre Bibesco, the last surviving son of the Hospodar of Wallachia. His mother was Helene Epourano, daughter of a former Prime Minister of Romania...
, Romanian prince, lawyer and writer - Antoine Alexandre BarbierAntoine Alexandre BarbierAntoine Alexandre Barbier was a French librarian and bibliographer.He was born in Coulommiers . He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801...
, French librarian - Antoine BauméAntoine BauméAntoine Baumé was a French chemist.He was born at Senlis. He was apprenticed to the chemist Claude Joseph Geoffroy, and in 1752 was admitted a member of the École de Pharmacie, where in the same year he was appointed professor of chemistry...
, French chemist - Antoine BetheaAntoine BetheaAntoine Bethea is a professional American football safety for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 6th round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Colts...
, American football player - Antoine BusnoisAntoine BusnoisAntoine Busnois was a French composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School. While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons...
, French composer and poet - Antoine CarrAntoine CarrAntoine Labotte Carr is a retired American basketball player. A 16-year NBA journeyman, he was known for the goggles he wore onto the court.-Early life:Antoine Carr was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
, former American basketball player - Antoine ClamaranAntoine ClamaranAntoine Clamaran is a French house music artist and music remixer. Clamaran was born in Villeurbanne. In the early 90's, his local fame interested Maximum FM, the leading parisian dance radio station at that time. Impressed by his mixing gift, Clamaran gained a huge audience and started to be...
, French DJ - Antoine D'Coolette, a character from Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series is an American animated series produced by DIC Entertainment with the partnership of Sega of America and was based on the Sonic the...
- Antoine de CaunesAntoine de CaunesAntoine de Caunes is a television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert...
French director - Antoine de JussieuAntoine de JussieuAntoine de Jussieu was a French naturalist.Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu , an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traité de la theriaque . Antoine studied at the university of Montpellier, and travelled with his brother Bernard through Spain, Portugal...
, French botanist - Antoine de LhoyerAntoine de LhoyerAntoine de Lhoyer was a French virtuoso guitarist and an eminent early romantic composer of mainly chamber music featuring the classical guitar. He was an approximate musical contemporary of Beethoven...
, A French virtuoso guitarist and composer - Antoine DénériazAntoine DénériazAntoine Dénériaz is a French Alpine skier. He won a gold medal in the Olympic downhill competition at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, trailed by Austrian Michael Walchhofer and Swiss Bruno Kernen...
, French alpine skier - Antoine DeparcieuxAntoine DeparcieuxAntoine Deparcieux was a French mathematician.In 1746, Antoine Deparcieux published Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine . Deparcieux analyzed in detail empirical observations...
, French mathematician - Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...
, French aviator and writer - Antoine DodsonAntoine DodsonKevin Antoine Dodson is an 'accidental singer', actor, and former resident of the Lincoln Park housing project in Huntsville, Alabama, whose interview on local television news became an Internet sensation and resulted in an Auto-Tuned song by The Gregory Brothers that "has sold thousands of copies...
, American interviewee turned internet sensation - Antoine DominoFats DominoAntoine Dominique "Fats" Domino, Jr. is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Creole was his first language....
, American singer and pianist, better known as Fats Domino - Antoine DrouotAntoine DrouotComte Antoine Drouot was one of Napoleon's generals.Born in Nancy, France, the son of a baker, he trained as an artilleryman and took part in the battles of the French Revolution where he rose through the ranks....
, French soldier - Antoine Du Silve, Famous Valdivian drunkard.
- Antoine DubéAntoine DubéAntoine Dubé was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2003. By career, he has worked in administration and recreation....
, member of the Canadian House of Commons - Antoine François DesruesAntoine François DesruesAntoine François Desrues was a French poisoner.He was born at Chartres, of humble parents. He went to Paris to seek his fortune, and started in business as a grocer...
, French poisoner - Antoine ÉtexAntoine ÉtexAntoine Étex was a French sculptor, painter and architect. He was born in Paris.He first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his "Death of Hyacinthus", and the plaster cast of his "Cain and his race cursed by God"...
, French sculptor, painter and architect - Antoine FuretièreAntoine FuretièreAntoine Furetière , French scholar and writer, was born in Paris.-Biography:He studied law and practised for a time as an advocate, but eventually took orders and after various promotions became abbé of Chalivoy in the diocese of Bourges in 1662...
, French scholar - Antoine GallandAntoine GallandAntoine Galland was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of The Thousand and One Nights...
, French orientalist and archaeologist - Antoine HéroetAntoine HéroetAntoine Héroet, surnamed La Maison-Neuve , French poet, was born in Paris of a family connected with the well known chancellor, François Olivier....
, French poet - Antoine IzméryAntoine IzméryAntoine Izméry was a Haïtian businessman and pro-democracy activist.-Career:Izméry, who was of Palestinian descent, was among the wealthiest people in Haïti. He was one of the most prominent backers of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and helped finance his election campaign...
, Haitian businessman - Antoine LavoisierAntoine LavoisierAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier , the "father of modern chemistry", was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology...
, French nobleman and chemist - Antoine François MarmontelAntoine François MarmontelAntoine François Marmontel was a French pianist, teacher and musicographer.Marmontel entered the Paris Conservatory in 1827. His teachers were Pierre Zimmerman in pianoforte, Victor Dourlen in harmony, Jacques Fromental Halévy in fugue and Jean-François Le Sueur in composition...
, French pianist - Antoine Merriweather, a character portrayed by David Alan Grier in the In Living Color sketch "Men on Film"
- Antoine ParentAntoine ParentAntoine Parent was a French mathematician, born at Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in three volumes at Paris in 1713....
, French mathematician - Antoine RiverAntoine RiverThe Antoine River is a tributary of the Little Missouri River in southwestern Arkansas in the United States. Via the Little Missouri, Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. According to the GNIS, it has also been known as Antoine Creek...
, a river in Antoine, ArkansasAntoine, ArkansasAntoine is a town in Pike County, Arkansas, United States, along the Antoine River. The population was 156 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Antoine is located at... - Antoine SibierskiAntoine SibierskiAntoine Sibierski is a French former footballer of Polish descent who played as a midfielder for clubs such as Manchester City and Newcastle United.- Early career :...
(born 1974), French former footballer - Antoine SonrelAntoine SonrelAntoine Sonrel was an illustrator, engraver and photographer in Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He moved from Neuchâtel to the United States around the late 1840s, and was affiliated with Louis Agassiz throughout his career...
, illustrator and photographer - Antoine Claire ThibaudeauAntoine Claire ThibaudeauAntoine Claire, Comte Thibaudeau was a French politician.He was the son of Antoine de Thibaudeau , who was a lawyer of Poitiers and a deputy to the Estates-General of 1789. He was admitted to the bar in 1787, and in 1789 accompanied his father to the Estates-General at Versailles...
, French politician - Antoine WalkerAntoine WalkerAntoine Devon Walker is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League...
, American basketball player - Antoine WinfieldAntoine WinfieldAntoine Winfield is an American football cornerback in the NFL. He played college football at The Ohio State University, winning the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation's top defensive back in 1998. Winfield was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft. Since 2004, he...
, American football player - Antoine-Aimé DorionAntoine-Aimé DorionSir Antoine-Aimé Dorion, PC was a French Canadian politician and jurist.-Early years:He was born in Lower Canada in 1818, the son of Pierre-Antoine Dorion, a merchant and member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada who supported Louis-Joseph Papineau...
, French Canadian politician and jurist - Antoine-Denis ChaudetAntoine-Denis ChaudetAntoine-Denis Chaudet was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor...
, French sculptor - Antoine-Jean GrosAntoine-Jean GrosBaron Antoine-Jean Gros , also known as Jean-Antoine Gros, was both a French History and neoclassical painter.-Early life and training:...
, French painter - Antoine-Marin LemierreAntoine-Marin LemierreAntoine-Marin Lemierre was a French dramatist and poet.He was born in Paris, into a poor family, butfound a patron in the collector-general of taxes, Dupin, whose secretary he became. Lemierre gained his first success on the stage with Hypermnestre ; Titre and Idomne failed on account of the...
, French dramatist and poet - Antoine FuquaAntoine FuquaAntoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...
, American film director - Antoine DufourAntoine DufourAntoine Dufour is a French-Canadian acoustic guitarist currently signed to CandyRat Records.-Biography:Dufour started playing guitar at the age of fifteen. He went on to study at the CEGEP in Joliette, where he listened to the music of Leo Kottke, Don Ross, and Michael Hedges at the behest of his...
,French-Canadian acoustic guitarist
As a family name
- André AntoineAndré Antoine (actor)André Antoine was a French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France.-Biography:...
, French actor and director, founder of the Théâtre LibreThéâtre LibreThe Théâtre Libre was a theatre company that operated from 1887 to 1896 in the Montmartre district of Paris, France.-History:Théâtre Libre was founded on 30 March 1887 by André Antoine, who wanted to create a dramatization of an Émile Zola novel, Thérèse Raquin after the theater group for which he... - Franz AntoineFranz AntoineFranz Antoine was an Austrian horticulturalist and gardener who was a native of Vienna....
, Austrian botanist - Louis AntoineLouis AntoineLouis Antoine was a French mathematician who discovered Antoine's necklace, which J. W. Alexander used to construct Antoine's horned sphere....
, mathematician
Objects
- Antoine (automobile)Antoine (automobile)The Antoine was a Belgian automobile manufactured by Victor Antoine of Liège, an engine manufacturer, from 1900 to 1903. At least two models were offered. One was a voiturette. The other, offered in 1903, was a 15/25 hp car....
, a Belgian automobileAutomobileAn automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor... - Antoine equation, a vapor pressure equation
- Antoine Butte is the highest summit of the Little Rocky MountainsLittle Rocky MountainsThe Little Rocky Mountains, also known as the Little Rockies, are a group of buttes, roughly 765 km2 in area, located towards the southern end of the Fort Belknap Agency in Blaine County and Phillips County in north-central Montana...
in Montana
Other spellings
- Antoin:
- Antoin SevruguinAntoin SevruguinAntoin Sevruguin was a photographer in Iran during the reign of the Qajar dynasty .-Early life:Born into a mixed Armenian-Georgian family in the Russian embassy of Tehran, Persia: Antoin Sevruguin was one of the many children of Vassil de Sevruguin and a Georgian Achin Khanoum. Vassil de Sevruguin...
, photographer (note that Sevruguin's personal practice was to re-add the E to the end of his first name; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antoin_Sevruguin.svg)
- Antoin Sevruguin
- Antuan:
- Antuan SimmonsAntuan Simmons-Professional career:Undrafted in 2002, Simmons signed with the San Diego Chargers, but did not survive the final cuts. In 2003, he played for the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe and signed with the San Francisco 49ers but again did not make the roster...
, American football player
- Antuan Simmons
- Antwan:
- Antwan Patton, American rapper who uses the stage nameStage nameA stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
Big Boi
- Antwan Patton, American rapper who uses the stage name
- Antwaan:
- Antwaan Randle ElAntwaan Randle ElAntwaan Randle El is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He attended Indiana University, after turning down a Major League Baseball draft selection by the Chicago Cubs in 1997...
, American football player
- Antwaan Randle El
- Antwaun
- Antwawn
- Antjuan
- Antwone:
- Antwone FisherAntwone FisherAntwone Quenton Fisher is an American director, screenwriter, author and film producer. His 2001 autobiographical book Finding Fish is a New York Times Best Seller...
, American author, screenwriter and film producer- Antwone Fisher (film)Antwone Fisher (film)Antwone Fisher is a 2002 American drama film directed by Denzel Washington, marking his directorial debut. He also stars in the film as the psychiatrist Jerome Davenport, alongside Hollywood newcomer Derek Luke, who plays the title role , and ex-model Joy Bryant, as Fisher's girlfriend.The film is...
, autobiographical film about the aforementioned Antwone Fisher
- Antwone Fisher (film)
- Antwone Fisher
- Antaun
- Antawn (when pronounced as in Antoine rather than as in Anton):
- Antawn JamisonAntawn JamisonAntawn Cortez Jamison is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He currently plays power forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers and was a member of the USA National Team for the 2006 FIBA World Championships...
, American basketball player
- Antawn Jamison
- Antione
- Antowain:
- Antowain SmithAntowain SmithAntowain Drurell Smith is a former American Football running back in the National Football League who played nine NFL seasons, most notably with the New England Patriots. At 6'2", , Smith's powerful running style made him an effective runner between the tackles...
, American football player
- Antowain Smith
See also
- Antoinette (disambiguation)
- Jean-Antoine