- Casimir de Montrond Casimir Comte de Montrond
Casimir, Comte de Montrond (1768-1843), was a French diplomatic agent and the son of a military officer. His mother, Anglique Marie d'Arlus, comtesse de Montrond (d. 1827), was a royalist writer, said to be the author of the "Troubadour barnois", a song which has the refrain "Louis, le fils de Henri, Est prisonnier dans Paris". Casimir was imprisoned in 1794 in St. Lazare, where he met a woman. He bought her freedom and his own with 100 louis. - Johann Casimir Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Johann Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (b. Gotha, 12 June 1564 - d. Coburg, 16 July 1633), was a duke of Saxe-Coburg. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Johann Frederick II, Duke of Saxony and Elisabeth of the Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim. After the "Reichsexekution" against Gotha in 1567 the father lost his lands and his liberty. Afterwards, Johann Casimir, as well as his older brother Frederick Heinrich (who died in 1572 aged 11), his younger brother, … - Saint Casimir
Saint Casimir Jagiellon, patron saint of Poland and Lithuania, was prince of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A member of the Jagiellon dynasty, Casimir was born at Wawel, the royal palace in Kraków, and died at Hrodna. Casimir was the grandson of Władysław II Jagiełło and was the second son of king Casimir IV and queen Elizabeth of Austria. His grandfather was Albert II Habsburg, king of Bohemia, king of Hungary, … - Hendrik Casimir
Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (July 15, 1909 in The Hague, Netherlands - May 4, 2000 in Heeze) was a Dutch physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in 1946. - Henry Casimir II of Casimir II, Count of Nassau-Dietz
Hendrik Casimir II (The Hague 18 January 1657 - Leeuwarden 25 March 1696), Count of Nassau-Dietz, Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen (1664-1696), eldest son of Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz and Albertine Agnes of Orange. He followed, under protection of his mother, his father as Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen. In 1675 the State of Friesland voted to make the Stadtholdership hereditary in the house of Nassau-Dietz. - Frederick Casimir Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Frederick Casimir (10 June 1585 - 30 September 1645) was the Duke of Landsberg from 1604 until 1645. - Pierre Louis Jean Casimir
Pierre Jean Casimir, first "prince et duc" (prince and duke) de Blacas d'Aulps (January 10 1771, Vérignon, Var - November 17 1839, Vienne, Austria) was a French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat. He was baptized at Aups on 11 January 1771. As sous-lieutenant in the Noailles dragoons, he emigrated in 1790 and - exiled by the French Revolution - attached himself to the diplomatic mission of the comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII), … - John Casimir
John Casimir (16 October, 1898 - 3 January, 1963) was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist and bandleader, best remembered as the leader of The Young Tuxedo Brass Band for some 20 years up to his death. Casimir started playing professionally with the Young Eagles Band with Lee Collins in 1919. He was also a member of the Original Tuxedo Brass Band, often following the lead of Louis Armstrong. - 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. - Elisabeth Of Austria
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, was a Polish-Lithuanian queen. In Polish, she is known as "Elżbieta Rakuszanka" and "Elżbieta Austriaczka", both names meaning "Elisabeth of Austria", or "Elżbieta Habsburżanka", meaning "Elisabeth of Habsburg". She was the daughter of Albert II of Germany (1397-1439) and his wife Elisabeth (1409-42), heiress of Bohemia. She was a princess of Hungary, princess of Bohemia, and duchess of Austria. - Casimir, Margrave Of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Casimir (or Kasimir) (born December 27 1481 in Buda; died September 21 1527 in Ofen), Margrave of Bayreuth, was the son of Frederick I and his wife Princess Sofia, a daughter of Kazimierz IV Jagiellon. In 1518, he married Susanna of Bavaria, the daughter of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. - Casimir III of Poland III of Poland
Casimir III, called the Great, King of Poland (1333-70), was the son of King Władysław I the Elbow-high and Jadwiga of Gniezno and Greater Poland. - Golda Casimir
- Rudy Van Vlaenderen
- Jon Casimir
- Kesler Casimir
- Sylvia Casimir
- Evelyne Casimir
- Casimir II of Poland II of Poland
Casimir II, called the Just, of the Piast Dynasty, was the youngest son of Boleslaus III by Salome, daughter of Henry, Duke of Berg. He reigned as Duke of Kraków and senior prince of Poland (see Seniorate) from 1177 until his death. Born shortly before or after his father's death, and omitted (possibly for that reason) from Boleslaus' will dividing the kingdom among Casimir's four elder brothers, he set about securing the basis for a claim to power. - Casimir I of Poland I of Poland
Casimir I the Restorer (25 July 1016-28 November 1058), was a Duke of Poland of the Piast dynasty and the de facto monarch of the entire country. He is known as "the Restorer" mostly because he managed to reunite all parts of Poland after a period of turmoil and attached Masovia, Silesia and Pomerania. Son of Mieszko II Lambert and Richensa of Lotharingia, Casimir failed to crown himself the King of Poland, mainly because of internal and external threats to his rule. - Casimir Ehrnrooth
Casimir "Casse" Ehrnrooth, titled "Vuorineuvos", (born 6 April 1931) has been a magnate in Finnish economy, and currently lives in Helsinki retired from daily business. He also owns Vanantaka manor, in Janakkala, South Tavastia, Finland. Born as the eldest son of the President of Nordic Union Bank, one of the then two biggest banks in Finland, Casimir Ehrnrooth inherited substantial holdings in important companies both from his maternal forefathers, … - Casimir Delavigne
Jean-François Casimir Delavigne, was a French poet and dramatist. He was born at Le Havre, but was sent to Paris to be educated at the Lycée Napoleon. He read extensively. When, on March 20 1811 the empress Marie Louise gave birth to a son, named in his cradle as king of Rome, the event was celebrated by Delavigne in a "Dithyrambe sur la naissance du roi de Rome", which obtained him a sinecure in the revenue office. - Casimir Ney
Louis Casimir Escouffier (1801-1877) (Casimir Ney) was one of the foremost French violists of the 19th Century. - Casimir Iv Jagiellon
Casimir IV Jagiellon of the Jagiellon dynasty, was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440, and King of Poland from 1447, until his death. Casimir was the second son of King Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila), and the younger brother of Władysław III of Varna. - Casimir Bizimungu
Dr. Casimir Bizimungu is a former Rwandan politician. A former medical doctor, Bizimungu holds a Ph.D. and an M.D. from American universities. He held several portfolios in the MRND government of Juvénal Habyarimana until July 1994. From 1989 to 1992 he was Foreign Minister, and from 9 April to 14 July 1994, during the Rwandan Genocide, he was Minister of Health in the interim government. - Casimir Lewy
Casimir Lewy (Warsaw 1919-1991) was a Polish-born British philosopher. A doctoral pupil of G. E. Moore to 1943, he attended lectures by Ludwig Wittgenstein from the late 1930s until 1945. He worked in philosophical logic but published scantily. According to Ian Hacking, "He had early acquired the conviction that one should publish only when one got something absolutely right, so he left very little in print". He was an influential teacher, but, according to Hacking, … - Casimir Pierre Perier
Casimir Pierre Perier was a French statesman. Born in Grenoble, he was the fourth son of a rich banker and manufacturer, Claude Perier (1742-1801), in whose house the estates of Dauphiné met in 1788. Claude Perier was one of the first directors of the Bank of France. Of his eight sons, Augustin (1773-1833), Antoine Scipion (1776-1821), and Camille (1781-1844) all distinguished themselves in industry and in politics. - Casimir Zeglen
The Rev. Casimir Zeglen invented a bullet resistant cloth at the end of the 19th century. He was a Polish Catholic priest of St. Stanislaus' Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, then the largest Polish church in the country, with 40,000 in the parish. In his early 20's he began experimenting with the cloth, using steel shavings, moss, hair, etc. but nothing stood the test until he made use of silk. - Casimir Gzowski
Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, KCMG (March 5, 1813 - August 24, 1898), was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897. Gzowski was born in St. Petersburg to a noble Polish father who served with the Russian military. He emigrated with his family to the United States after the Polish revolt against Russia in 1830. He knew no English, but began to study law and was admitted to practice. - Casimir Ubaghs
Casimir Ubaghs was for a quarter of a century the chief protagonist of the Ontologico-Traditionalist School of Louvain. He was born at Berg en Terblijt nearValkenburg (the Netherlands) on November 26, 1800. In 1830, while professor of philosophy at the lower seminary of Rolduc, he was called to Louvain, which under his influence became a centre of Ontologism. In 1846 he undertook the editorship of the "Revue catholique", the official organ of Ontologism, … - Casimir Davaine
Casimir Davaine was a French physician known for his work in the field of microbiology. In 1850, Davaine along with French dermalogist Pierre François Olive Rayer (1793-1867) discovered a certain microorganism in the blood of diseased and dying sheep. In the diseased blood, Rayer and Davaine isolated the bacillus which is known as anthrax. Soon afterwards, Rayer published an essay on anthrax, which contained the first description of "Bacillus anthracis". - Casimir Marie Gaudibert
Casimir Marie Gaudibert was a French amateur astronomer and selenographer. Gaudibert produced a map of the Moon in 1887. Under the direction of Camille Flammarion, Emile Bertaux subsequently produced a globe of the moon based on Gaudibert's lunar map. Gaudibert crater, on the Moon, is named after him. - Casimir Oyé-Mba
Casimir Oyé-Mba is a Gabonese politician, who was one of the most important people in President Omar Bongo's administration during the 1990s. He served as prime minister of Gabon from May 3 1990 to November 2 1994. He was then appointed foreign minister and served in that position until 1999. He has been Minister of State for Planning and Development Programs since January 1999. - Casimir Dunin-Markiewicz
Count Casimir Dunin-Markiewicz was a Polish nobleman and subject of the Russian Empire. He was born in 1874 in Denhofówka near Kievand. His second wife was the feminist, socialist and Irish Republican revolutionary Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz. He died in 1932 in Warsaw. - Casimir Funk
Kazimierz Funk (February 23, 1884 - January 19, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of Vitamins in 1912, which he called "vital amines" or "vitamines". - Casimir Delavigne
Younger brother of Germain Delavigne. - Casimir Casimir
- Caz Dickson
- Casimir Kokitch
- Casimir Oberfeld
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