- Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'.
- Henry Thomas
Henry Jackson Thomas, Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and musician. He has appeared in more than 40 films and is best known for his role as Elliott in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Thomas was born September 9, 1971 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, the son of Carolyn L. Davis and Henry Jackson Thomas, a hydraulics mechanic.
- Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen début in "Altered States" (1980); she made her breakout role two years later in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses.
- Pat Bilon
Michael Patrick (Pat) Bilon (August 29, 1947 - January 27, 1983) was an American actor best known for his performances in "Under the Rainbow" and "E.T." At no taller than two feet and 10 inches, Bilon was considered one of the smallest adult dwarfs in the country, but he never characterized himself as disabled. Throughout much of his adult life, he was an active member of Little People of America. Bilon was born in the mid-sized industrial town Youngstown, …
- Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor.
- E.T. Paull
Edward Taylor Paull (b. February 16, 1858 in Gerardstown, West Virginia; d. November 25, 1924 in New York City) started out as a fledgling publisher and composer until he hit upon a formula in the mid-1890s that launched him to success. It started with his first published march, "The Chariot Race," also known as the "Ben Hur March." His thought was to grab the potential pianist or listener's attention before they even heard the piece.
- E.T. Mensah
E.T. Mensah (born 1919 in Accra; died 1996) was a Ghanaian Highlife musician. He began as a flautist with the Accra Orchestra, a schoolchildren band, in 1930. In 1948 he formed "The Tempos", a group he might be best known for, and toured West Africa. The group gained international attention and in 1956 Mensah performed with Louis Armstrong. The highlife style declined starting in the 1960s, but he remained active for years afterward.
- E.T. McDonald
E.T. McDonald was the head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1914 to 1916. He finished his college football coaching career with an overall record of 14-7-1. McDonald was a graduate of the Colgate University.
- Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and part-time at the École Normale Supérieure. Werner became a French national in 1977.
- Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series, and the adventurous archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones film series. Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hits Hollywood blockbusters such as "Air Force One" and "The Fugitive", which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles.
- Anselme Payen
Anselme Payen was a French chemist. He was born in Paris, where his father started to give him scientific lessons at the age of 13. He studied then partly at the École Polytechnique with the best chemists. At the age of 20 he became manager of the family borax-refining factory, where he developed a process for synthesizing borax from soda and boric acid. He also invented new processes for refining sugar, a decolorimeter, a way to refine starch and alcohol from potatoes, …
- Henri Tresca
Henri Edouard Tresca was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations, which he explored in an extensive series of brilliant experiments begun in 1864. He is the discoverer of the Tresca (or maximal shear stress) criterion of material failure.
- Pierre Bézier
Pierre Étienne Bézier (pronounced "BEH zee eh") was a French engineer and creator of the Bézier curves and Bézier surfaces that are now used in most computer-aided design and computer graphics systems. Born in Paris, Bézier obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from the "École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers" in 1930. He earned a second degree in electrical engineering in 1931 at the "École Supérieure d'Électricité", …
- Latifa ben Mansour
Latifa Ben Mansour is an Algerian writer and linguist. Having studied Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure d'Alger, where she obtained her Ph.D. in the subject, she went on to teach it at the University of Paris III and communications at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. She received the "Prix méditerranéen de la nouvell"e in 1996 for her short story "Le Cocu Cadi". Her novel, "La Prière de la peur", 1997 (ed.
- John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Hook", "Memoirs of a Geisha", and "Harry Potter".
- Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as "Général de Gaulle", was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces.
- Souphanouvong
Prince Souphanouvong (July 13, 1909 - January 9, 1995) was, along with his half-brother Prince Souvanna Phouma and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak, one of the "Three Princes" who represented respectively the communist (pro-Vietnam), neutralist, and royalist political factions in Laos. He was the figurehead president of Laos from December 1975 to August 1991, a period where the country was effectively under the control of Vietnam.
- Axelle Red
Axelle Red was born Fabienne Demal in Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium, on 15 February 1968. She is a singer-songwriter. Despite being Flemish, she chose to write and perform songs in the French language. She has achieved great critical success in both Belgium and France. Her musical style varies from jazz to piano ballads. Her musical idols as a youth were the pop group ABBA.
- Michel Virlogeux
Dr. Michel Virlogeux (born 1946, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire) is a French structural engineer and bridge builder. He received the 2003 IABSE Award of Merit in Structural Engineering in recognition of "his major contributions leading to very significant progress in the field of civil engineering, in particular through the development of external prestressing, landmark cable-stayed bridges and composite structures".
- Louis Vicat
Louis Vicat French engineer, inventor of artificial cement. He graduated from École Polytechnique 1804 and École des Ponts et Chaussées 1806. Vicat studied setting of mortars and invented new artificial cements ("white gold") in 1817. The material was popular but was superseded by Portland cement. He also invented the Vicat needle that is still in use for determination of setting time of concretes and cements.
- Fouad Laroui
Fouad Laroui (1958 -) is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies in the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées(Paris, France), where he studied engineering. After having worked in the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spends a few years in Cambridge and York.
- Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows.
- Ben Moreell
Admiral Ben Moreell (September 19, 1892 - July 30, 1978) was the chief of the US Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks and of the Civil Engineer Corps. He is most well known for founding the Seabees in 1941 just prior to America's entry into World War II. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah but grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Washington University and joined the engineering department. He enlisted in the Navy during World War I and served in the Azores.
- Charles Joseph Minard
Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer noted for his inventions in the field of information graphics. Minard studied science and mathematics at the École Polytechnique. After working as a civil engineer on dam, canal and bridge projects throughout Europe for many years, he was appointed superintendent of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (School of Bridges and Roads) in 1830, a position he held until 1836.
- Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century.
- Charles Athanase Walckenaer
Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist. Walckenaer was born in Paris and studied at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in the Pyrenees, after which he pursued technical studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and the École polytechnique. He was elected member of the Institut de France in 1813, …
- Pierre Girard
Pierre Simon Girard was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluids. Girard worked as an engineer at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He was in charge of planning and construction of the Amiens canal and the Ourcq canal. He collaborated with Gaspard de Prony on the "Dictionnaire des Ponts et Chaussées" (Dictionary of Bridges and Highways). He wrote works on fluids and on the strength of materials
- Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux OBE (born 5 May 1959 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known "God games" "Populous" and "Black & White", among others, as well as "Business Strategy" games such as "Theme Park" and most recently, "The Movies". In August 1997 Peter left Bullfrog Productions to establish a new development team, Lionhead Studios.
- Elfi von Dassanowsky
Elfi von Dassanowsky is an Austrian singer, pianist and film producer. She was born in Vienna as Elfriede Maria Elisabeth Charlotte von Dassanowsky (the Austrian branch of the Polish Counts Taczanowski). Recognized internationally for her unique work as a pioneering woman in film production and as a multi-talent in postwar Austrian arts and culture, von Dassanowsky is the only Austrian woman to receive the Women’s International Center’s prestigious Living Legacy Award, …
- Bruno Mégret
Bruno Mégret is a French politician. He is the leader of the "Mouvement National Républicain" political party. Bruno Mégret studied at the École Polytechnique and at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and is by profession a senior civil servant. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of the armored cavalry school of Saumur, he is also a reserve captain.
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his images of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. Oudry was the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer in Paris, and of his wife Nicole Papillon, who belonged to the family of the engraver Jean-Baptist-Michel Papillon. His father was a director of the "Académie de St-Luc" art school, which Oudry joined.
- Luc Besson
Luc Besson (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer.
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a European politician and was a leader of the student protesters during the May 1968 riots in France. He was also known during that time as "Danny the Red" (because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
- Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (born 27 December 1948,) is an Academy Award-nominated French actor. His most significant English-language productions include "Green Card" with Andie MacDowell and "1492: Conquest of Paradise". Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre to Anne Jeanne Joséphe "Eliette" (née Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, a metal worker. He first married Elisabeth (née Guignot), with whom he had two children.
- Gaspard de Prony
Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France. He was Engineer-in-Chief of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. In 1792, de Prony began a major task of producing logarithmic and trigonometric tables, the Cadastre. The tables and their production were vast, with values calculated to between fourteen and twenty-nine decimal places.
- Auguste Choisy
Auguste Choisy was an architectural historian and author of "Histoire de l'Architecture". In 1904 he won the RIBA's Royal Gold Medal. He was professor of architecture at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées from 1877 to 1901.
- Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin, better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. He was born in Marseille, France. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. In 1930, he appeared in his first motion picture and for more than forty years he would be France's top comedic actor.
- C. Thomas Howell
Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor. He appeared in a huge role (credited as Tom Howell) in Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982). He also is the lead in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders" he is Ponyboy Curtis, and in the 1990 feature film "Side Out". His acting career began in television at the age of four, …
- Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg - Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933), (September 13, 1874 - July 13, 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements in early 20th-century German poetry and art, and he was among the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development.
- Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin was a major French actor and war hero.