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Pronunciation IPA: [etjɛn] Related names Stephen/Steven		Gender Male

Étienne, a French equivalent of Stephen/Steven/Steve, is a given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne.

Scientists and inventors

Étienne Bézout (1730–1783), French mathematician

Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810), French entomologist and pharmacist

Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913), French professor of economics and statistics

Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgian engineer who invented the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers

Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) (1744–1832), French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle surveying instrument

Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880), French entomologist and ornithologist

Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist

Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757–1808), French botanist

Étienne Wasserzug (1860-1888), French biologist

Intellectuals and academics

Étienne Balázs (1905–1963), Hungarian-born French sinologist

Étienne Balibar (born 1942), French Marxist philosopher and professor

Étienne Baluze (1630–1718), French scholar also known as Stephanus Baluzius

Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563), French intellectual and noted friend of Michel de Montaigne

Étienne Cabet (1788–1856), French philosopher and utopian socialist

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780), French philosopher

Étienne Dolet (1509–1546), French scholar, translator and printer

Étienne Fourmont (1683–1745), French orientalist

Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), French philosopher

Étienne Hubert (Arabist) (1567–1614), French physician, Orientalist and diplomat, also known as Stephanus Hubertus

Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983), Belgian priest, Indologist and authority on Buddhism

Etienne Vermeersch (born 1934), Belgian philosopher

Étienne Weill-Raynal (1887–1982), French historian, resistant, journalist and Socialist politician.

Étienne Wenger (born 1952), education theorist

Politicians, government officials and soldiers

Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785), French military officer, statesman and diplomat

Étienne Bazeries (1846–1931), French military cryptanalyst

Étienne Eustache Bruix (1759-1805), French Navy admiral

Étienne Clavière (1735–1793), Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution

Étienne Clémentel (1864-1936), French politician

Étienne Compayré (1748-1817), French politician.

Étienne Davignon (born 1932), Belgian politician, businessman and former vice-president of the European Commission

Étienne Maurice Gérard, comte Gérard (1773–1852), French general and statesman

Étienne Guy (1774–1820), surveyor and politician in Lower Canada

Etienne van der Horst (born 1958), Curaçaoan politician

Étienne Manac'h (1910-1992), French diplomat and writer

Étienne Marcel (died 1358), provost of the merchants of Paris under King John II

Étienne Parent (1802–1874), Canadian journalist and government official

Étienne Richaud (1841-1889), Governor of French India

Etienne Saqr (born 1937), Lebanese founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party

Étienne Tshisekedi (born 1932), politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Étienne de Vignolles (1390-1443), called La Hire, a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War and a close comrade of Joan of Arc

Etienne Ys (born 1962), twice Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles

Arts and entertainment

Etienne, pen name of Dom Orejudos (1933–1991), American erotic artist and dancer

Étienne Aigner (1904–2000), Hungarian-born German fashion designer

Étienne Chatiliez (born 1952), French film director

Étienne de Crécy (born 1969), French electronic music producer and DJ

Étienne Daho (born 1956), French singer, songwriter and record producer

Etienne Debel (1931–1993), Belgian actor and director

Étienne Doirat (c. 1675–1732), French furniture designer.

Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), French Rococo sculptor

Etienne Girardot (1856–1939), Anglo-French actor

Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532–1573), French dramatist and poet

Étienne Loulié (1654–1702), French musician, pedagogue and musical theorist

Étienne Méhul (1763–1817), French composer

Étienne Moulinié (1599–1676), French Baroque composer

Étienne Périer (director) (born 1931), Belgian film director

Sports

Étienne Bally (born 1923), French sprinter

Etienne Barbara (born 1982), Maltese footballer

Étienne Boulay (born 1983), Canadian football player

Étienne Capoue (born 1988), French footballer

Étienne Dagon (born 1960), Swiss breaststroke swimmer

Étienne Desmarteau (1873-1905), Canadian winner of the 54 pound weight throw at the 1904 Olympics

Étienne Didot (born 1983), French footballer

Etienne Eto'o (born 1990), Cameroonian footballer

Étienne Mattler (1905–1986), French footballer

Etienne L. de Mestre (1832–1916), Australian racehorse trainer

Etienne Stott (born 1979), English slalom canoeist

Other

Étienne Bacrot (born 1983), French chess player, formerly the youngest person ever to have earned the Grandmaster title

Étienne Brûlé (c. 1592–c. 1643), French explorer in what is now Canada

Étienne Gaboury (born 1930), Canadian architect

Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615), French lawyer and man of letters

Étienne Pernet (1824–1899), French Roman Catholic priest, founder of Little Sisters of the Assumption Order

Étienne Provost (1785–1850), French-Canadian fur trader

Étienne Tempier (died 1279), also known as Stephanus of Orleans, French bishop of Paris and Chancellor of the Sorbonne

Fictional characters

Étienne of Navarre, a main character in Ladyhawke, a 1985 historical-fantasy, played by Rutger Hauer

Étienne Lantier, protagonist of Émile Zola's novel Germinal

Etienne Argeneau, one of the main characters of Lynsay Sands' romance novel Love Bites

Étienne St. Clair, a main character in the novel Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Étienne, a French electric locomotive in the 11th special of Thomas & Friends, The Great Race.

References

Étienne Wikipedia

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