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Pronunciation
  
French: [ˈpjɛʁ]

Language(s)
  
French

See also
  
Peter, Pedro, Boutros

Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
"Stone"

Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter (it can also be a surname and a place name). Pierre originally means "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word "petros" meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). See also Peter.

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Persons with the given name

  • Pierre Affre (1590-1669), French sculptor.
  • Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, professional footballer who plays for the German club Borussia Dortmund and the Gabon national football team
  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first self-proclaimed anarchist and is regarded by some as the founder of modern anarchist theory
  • Pierre Bézier, an engineer and mathematician known for his work with Bézier curves
  • Pierre Bourgault, a public speaker, journalist and politician famed for his work for Quebec Independence from Canada
  • Pierre Boulez, a French classical and electronic composer
  • Pierre Bouvier, a French-Canadian musician, lead singer of Simple Plan
  • Pierre Caille (disambiguation)
  • Pierre Capretz, a host of French in Action
  • Pierre Cardin, a French fashion designer
  • Pierre Cathala (1888-1947), French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944.
  • Pierre Chambrin, a White House Executive Chef
  • Pierre Chouteau, Jr. (1789 –1865), an American fur trader who established in 1832 Fort Pierre (South Dakota), a trading post
  • Pierre Clostermann, a French pilot who fought in World War II for the RAF
  • Pierre Corréia, a French rugby union player
  • Pierre Curie, a French physicist and husband of Marie Curie
  • Pierre Dagher, Lebanese actor and voice actor
  • Pierre de Maricourt (13th century), a writer on magnetism and astrolabes
  • Pierre de Fermat, a French lawyer and mathematician
  • Pierre Fourier, a Catholic saint and French priest
  • Pierre Garçon, a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins
  • Pierre Gaspard (1834–1915), a French mountain climber and guide
  • Pierre Gaspard, a Belgian physicist and professor
  • Pierre Gemayel, a politician, founder of Al-Kataeb party in Lebanon
  • Pierre Gagnaire, a French chef
  • Pierre Harmel (1911–2009), a former Belgian Prime Minister
  • Pierre Henry, a French musician
  • Pierre Hermans, a Dutch field hockey goalkeeper
  • Pierre van Hooijdonk, a Dutch footballer
  • Pierre Jallow, Gambian basketball player
  • Pierre Jeanpierre, a French soldier
  • Pierre Lavertu, Canadian football player
  • Pierre Levasseur (disambiguation)
  • Pierre Menard, The love of Shannon Corrigan Life
  • Pierre Morel, French film director
  • Pierre Papillaud (born c. 1936), French billionaire businessman.
  • Pierre Pilote, ice hockey player
  • Pierre Poilievre, Canadian federal MP for the riding of Nepean-Carleton
  • Pierre-Loup Rajot, French actor and director
  • Pierre Rautenbach, computer scientist and author
  • Pierre Roger (swimmer), French swimmer
  • Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to US President John F. Kennedy
  • Pierre Schaeffer, a French experimental musician
  • Pierre Shammassian, a Lebanese-Armenian comedian
  • Pierre Sokolsky, American physicist
  • Pierre Sprey, a French-American aircraft designer
  • Pierre Taki, a Japanese musician
  • Pierre Thomas (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Pierre Thomas (scholar) (1634–1698), French scholar and author
  • Pierre Thomas (journalist), American journalist
  • Pierre Thomas (American football) (born 1984), American football player
  • Pierre Trudeau, a former Canadian Prime Minister
  • Pierre Turgeon, a Québécois NHL Hall of Famer
  • Pierre Warren, American football player
  • Abbé Pierre, a French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement
  • Pierre de Coubertin, a founder of the modern Olympic Games
  • Pierre van Maldere, a South-Netherlandish composer
  • Monsieur Pierre, a ballroom dancer

    • Surname

  • Aaron Pierre (born 1993), footballer
  • DBC Pierre (penname), a Mexican writer
  • Georges St-Pierre (born 1981), Canadian MMA fighter and former UFC Welterweight champion
  • Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (1833-1905), a French botanist
  • Juan Pierre (born 1977), American baseball player
  • Percy A. Pierre (born 1939), American electrical engineer and mathematician
  • Perri Pierre (born 1988), a Haitian-American actor and film producer
  • Raymond Pierre, an American track and field athlete
  • Robert Pierre (musician), a Christian recording artist
  • Roger Pierre (1923–2010), a French actor

    • Other

  • Pierre, South Dakota, the capital of the U.S. state
  • Pierre, a Chrono Cross playable character
  • Pierre Bezukhov, a central character in the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Pierre Escargot, a French teacher from the tv show All That, played by Kenan Thompson. The name can be translated as "stone snail".
  • Pierre, a character in JumpStart
  • Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, a novel by Herman Melville
  • Carl Ouellet, Canadian professional wrestler - his ring names included Pierre

    • References

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