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André

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Gender
  
Male

Alternative spelling
  
Andre

Region of origin
  
France, Portugal

Nickname(s)
  
Andy, Dre

Pronunciation
  
/ɑːndreɪ/ French: [ɑ̃dʁe] Portuguese: [ɐ̃drɛ]

Language(s)
  
French, Portuguese, African American Vernacular English

André—sometimes transliterated as Andre—is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It is a variation of the Greek name Andreas, a short form of any of various compound names derived from andr- 'man, warrior'. The female form in French is Andrée whereas the female form in Portuguese is Andréa.

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Cognate names

Cognate names are:

  • Irish: Aindrias, Aindréas; Aindriú
  • Scottish Gaelic: Aindrea, Anndra
  • Welsh: Andras
  • German: Andreas
  • Dutch: Andries
  • Scandinavian: Anders
  • French: André
  • Spanish: Andrés
  • Catalan: Andreu
  • Portuguese: André
  • Italian: Andrea
  • Ukrainian: Andrii
  • Russian, Bulgarian: Andrei
  • Polish: Andrzej, Jędrzej
  • Czech: Andrej, Ondřej
  • Serbo-Croatian: Andrija
  • Slovenian: Andrej
  • Finnish: Antero
  • Hungarian: András, Endre
  • Lithuanian: Andrius
  • Latvian: Andrejs
  • Romanian: Andrei
  • Japanese: アンデルー (Anderuu), アンデル (Anderu)

    • The name is popular in Norway and Sweden.

    People

    Notable people with this first name include:

  • Andre Agassi, American tennis player
  • Andre Anis, Estonian football (soccer) player
  • André Béguin, (born 1897), Swiss war criminal and commandant of the World War II Wauwilermoos internment camp
  • Andre Carter, American professional football player
  • Andre Dawson, American major league baseball player
  • André-Marie Ampère, French physicist
  • André Benjamin, also known as André 3000, American musician, record producer and actor
  • André Breton, French writer and theorist
  • André Chénier, French poet
  • André Citroën, French inventor and engineer
  • André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist
  • André Derain, French painter
  • Andre Geim, Dutch-British physicist
  • André Gide, French writer
  • André Grétry, French composer
  • Andre Hollins, American basketball player
  • Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
  • André Le Nôtre, French architect
  • André Michel Lwoff, French biologist
  • André Malraux, French writer
  • André Maurois, French writer
  • André Masséna, French military commander in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
  • Andre Miller, American basketball player
  • André Ooijer, Dutch soccer player
  • Andre President, American football player
  • André Previn, German-American musician
  • André Rieu, Dutch violinist, orchestra conductor
  • Andre Russell, Jamaican cricketer and plays international cricket for the West Indies
  • André Salvat (1920–2017), French Army colonel
  • André Schubert, German soccer player and manager
  • André Schürrle, German soccer player
  • Andre Strode, American player of gridiron football
  • André the Giant (André Roussimoff), French professional wrestler and actor
  • Andre Wisdom, English football player
  • Andre Young, better known as Dr. Dre, American rapper and rap music producer

    • Other uses

  • André (play), a 1798 play by William Dunlap

    • References

    André Wikipedia
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