Élie

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Élie is the French equivalent of "Elias" or "Elijah."

French masculine given name

Élie Aboud (1959) Lebanese-French politician

Élie Barnavi (born 1946) Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002.

Élie Baup (1955) French football player and now manager

Élie Bayol (1914-1995) French racing driver

Élie Benoist (1640-1728) French Protestant minister and historian of the Edict of Nantes

Élie Berthet (1815-1891) French novelist

Élie Bertrand (1713–1797) Swiss French geologist

Élie Bloncourt (1896-1978) Guadeloupe-born French politician of the 1930s.

Élie Bouhéreau (1643-1719) French Huguenot refugee in Ireland and the first librarian of Marsh's Library

Élie Brousse (1921) French rugby league player

Élie Cartan (1869-1951) French mathematician

Élie Castor (1943-1996) French Guiana politician

Élie Chouraqui (1950) French film director

Élie Diodati (1576–1661) Swiss French jurist

Élie Dohin (1983) French football midfielder

Élie Domota (1963) trade union leader from Guadeloupe

Élie Ducommun (d.1906) was winner of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize

Élie, duc Decazes (1780-1860)

Élie Dupuis (1994) Canadian actor

Élie Doté (1947) Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from June 2005 to January 2008

Élie Ehua (1992) French footballer

Élie Faure (1873-1937) French art historian

Élie Frédéric Forey (1804-1872) Marshal of France

Élie Catherine Fréron (1719-1776) French (male) writer and controversialist

Élie Fruchart (1922) French football player

Élie Halévy (1870-1937) French historian

Élie Halévy (Chalfan) (1760-1826) French Hebrew poet and author

Élie Hoarau (1938) Réunion politician

Élie Kakou (1960–1999) French comic actor

Élie Kroupi (1979) French-Ivorian football player

Élie Lacerte (1821-1898) Quebec physician and political figure

Élie Lacoste (1745-1806) French politician during the French Revolution

Élie Lellouche (1952) French horse trainer

Élie Lescot (1883-1974) President of Haiti from 1941

Élie Mailloux (1830-1893) Quebec political figure

Élie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) Russian biologist, known by French name

Élie Reclus (1827–1904) French anarchist and ethnographer

Élie de Rothschild (1917-2007) French banker

Élie Saint-Hilaire (1839-1888) political figure in Quebec

Élie Semoun (1963) French comedian

Élie Vinet (1509–1587) French Renaissance humanist

Élie Wollman (1917-2008) French geneticist

Double and middle names

Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874) French geologist

Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont (1732–1786) French Protestant

Élie-Abel Carrière (1818-1896) French botanist

Joseph Élie Cholette Canadian politician

Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828-1891) French painter

Jacques Derrida, born Jackie Élie Derrida (1930-2004) Sephardic French-Algerian philosopher

Marguerite-Élie Guadet (1758-1794) French (male) political figure of the Revolutionary period

Nil-Élie Larivière (1899-1969) Quebec politician

Marie Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet (1858-1937) 19th Prince de Chimay, French fencer at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819) Martinique creole colonist

Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau (1822-1878) Quebec businessman and political figure

François-Élie Vincent (1708-1790) Swiss painter of portrait miniatures.

Variant spellings

Hélie and Hélias, also Élias:

Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (1301-1364) also Élie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Bishop of Auxerre

Hélias de Saint-Yrieix (died 1367) French Benedictine abbot, bishop and cardinal.

Hélie de Bourdeilles (ca. 1423-1484) French Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and cardinal.

Surname

Antonio Élie (1893-1968) Canadian politician

Romain Élie (1985) French football defender

Louis-Pierre Hélie (1986) Canadian skier

Geographical names

Saint-Élie a commune of French Guiana

Rock Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville, borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec

Mont-Élie, Quebec, unorganized territory in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec

Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Quebec municipality in the Mauricie region of the province

References

Élie Wikipedia

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