- Giorgio Rocca
Giorgio Rocca (born August 6,1975, Chur, Switzerland) is an Italian Alpine skier, a specialist of Slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli and Ingemar Stenmark, he is the sole skier to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slalom in a row, a result he scored in the 2005/2006 season: only Alberto Tomba (7) made better. He is currently the fifth all-time slalom winner, with a total of 11 victories. Rocca made his debut in the Alpine Skiing World Cup on January 6, 1996, …
- Jacques Balmat
Jacques Balmat, called "le Mont Blanc" (1762, Chamonix valley - 1834, Sixt valley) was an Italian mountain guide. A modest chamois hunter and collector of crystals, Balmat realized the first ascent of Mont Blanc with Michel-Gabriel Paccard on August 8, 1786. For this feat, the king of Sardinia gave him the honorary title "le Mont Blanc". pms:Jacques Balmat
- Marie Paradis
Marie Paradis was the first woman to reach the summit of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain of western Europe, on July 141808. She was a native of Chamonix, where she is commemorated by the street named "Promenade Marie Paradis".
- Lionel Terray
Lionel Terray was a French climber who made many first ascents, including Makalu in the Himalaya (with Jean Couzy on 15 May 1955) and Cerro Fitzroy in the Patagonian Andes (with Guido Magnone in 1952). A climbing guide and ski instructor, Terray was active in mountain combat against Germany during World War II. After the war, he became well known as one of the best Chamonix climbers and guides, noted for his speedy ascents of some of the most notorious climbs in the French, …
- Michel-Gabriel Paccard
Michel Gabriel Paccard was an italian doctor. He studied medicine in Turin. Due to his passion for botany and minerals, he met Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who initiated the race to be the first to ascend Mont Blanc. Michel had a first, unsuccesful, attempt in 1783 with Marc Theodore Bourrit. In 1784, he made several attempts with Pierre Balmat. Finally, he made the first ascent of Mont Blanc with Jacques Balmat on August 8, 1786. There is a statue of him in Chamonix.
- Thorleif Haug
Thorleif Haug (September 28, 1894 - December 12, 1934) was a Norwegian skier who competed in nordic combined and cross-country. Dominating both events in the 1920s, he won three gold medals in the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix and was 4th in ski jumping. In addition, he won the 50 kilometres cross-country event at the Holmenkollen ski festival a record six times (1918-1921, 1923-1924) and the Nordic combined three times (1919-21).
- Louis Lachenal
Louis Lachenal (17 July 1921-25 November 1955), a French climber born in Annecy, was one of the first to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters. On 3 June 1950, along with Maurice Herzog, he reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at a height of 8,091 m (26,545 ft). Previously he had made the second ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1947, with Lionel Terray. He died while skiing in Chamonix.
- Jonathan Trigell
Jonathan Trigell (born 1974) is a British author now living in Chamonix, France. His first novel, entitled "Boy A", won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004 and the Waverton Good Read Award. "Boy A" is the story of a child criminal released into society as an adult. It has obvious and presumably deliberate parallels to the fates of the murderers of James Bulger, although the crime itself differs significantly.
- Anders Haugen
Anders Haugen (1888-1984) was an American ski jumper who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix. Born in Norway, Haugen emigrated to the United States in 1908 where he settled in Dillon, Colorado. In 1919 and 1920, he set the World record ski jumping distances of 213 ft. (64.92m) and 214 ft. (65.23m), respectively. As Captain of the first US skiing team at the 1924 Winter Olympics, he won the first Olympic ski jumping bronze medal in the individual large hill, …
- Julius Skutnabb
Julius Ferninand Skutnabb (born 12 June 1889 in Helsinki - died 26 February 1965 in Helsinki) was a Finnish speed skater. Julius Skutnabb, a fireman, made his international debut at the World Allround Championships in 1914, but his promising career on an international level was promptly interrupted by World War I. He kept skating on a national level, though, becoming Finnish Allround Champion in 1914, 1916, and 1917.
- Émile Allais
Émile Allais is a former French Alpine skiier who realised at hat-trick of victories in the 1937 championships in Chamonix. He is considered as the very first well-known French Alpine skiier.
- Christl Haas
Christl Haas was an Austrian alpine skiing champion at the 1964 Winter Olympics. Haas was born in at Kitzbühel. In the World Cup she won four downhill competitions in total. At the Alpine skiing World Championship 1962 in Chamonix, France she won gold in the downhill competition. Haas became a national hero as a twenty year old Olympic champion in the downhill event at the first Innsbruck Winter Olympics.
- Narve Bonna
Narve Bonna was a Norwegian ski jumper. He won the first Olympic ski jumping silver medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
- Per Erik Hedlund
Per Erik Hedlund (April 18, 1897 - ?) was a former Swedish cross country skier who competed in the 1920's and 1930's. He won the 50 km event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz by 13 minutes, 27 seconds over fellow Swede Gustaf Jonsson. Hedlund's margin of victory is unequaled in Olympic history. Hedlund participated in the same event at the earlier 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, but did not finish.
- Philippe Bozon
Philippe Bozon (Born November 30, 1966 in Chamonix, France) is a professional hockey player who played in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues from the 1991-1992 season until the 1994-1995 season. He plays left wing. Bozon began his career by playing for the St. Jean Beavers in the QMJHL followed by 4 solid years playing in his native France. He was then picked up by the Blues and was used as a defensive minded forward and occasionally on the scoring line with Brett Hull.
- Jean Couzy
Jean Couzy was a French mountaineer. He studied aeronautical engineering at the École Polytechnique. At age 27, he was a member of Maurice Herzog's 1950 expedition to Annapurna. Prior to this, his usual climbing partner was Marcel Schatz, another member of the expedition. Couzy made the first ascent of Makalu with Lionel Terray on May 15 1955. In the Alps, Jean Couzy was the first to ascend the following routes: * Aiguille de l'M near Chamonix, …
- Tapani Niku
Tapani Niku was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1920's. He won a bronze in the 18km event at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix. Niku also finished 6th in the 18km event at the 1926 Nordic skiing World Championships.
- Gary Hemming
Gary Hemming (b. 1933, d. 1969) was a noted American mountaineer. Together with Royal Robbins he made the first ascent of the American Direct route on the Aiguille du Dru in Chamonix in 1962, and was widely known in France for his role as a rescuer of a party on the same mountain in 1966. Hemming died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound outside the Jenny_Lake campground in Grand Teton National Park in 1969.
- Georgette Agutte
Georgette Agutte was a French painter. She was the daughter of Jean Georges Agutte. In 1893 she joined Gustave Moreau's classes as a free pupil, and retained his teachings on the freedom of mind and independence. She also met Matisse and Georges Rouault among others. Agutte was a non-comformist and the only woman to attend the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She was a member of the Fauvist movement and a sculptor. Her studio was in Bonnières-sur-Seine.
- Andrée Brunet
Andrée Brunet (also Andrée Joly, born September 16, 1901 in Paris, France, died March 30, 1993, Boyne City, Michigan, U.S.) was a French figure skater and two-time Olympic champion in pair skating. Brunet and her partner Pierre Brunet are considered groundbreakers in early pair skating. They are credited with creating mirror skating, and new jumps, lifts, and spins. At their first Olympic games, the 1924 Games in Chamonix, …
- Robin Welsh
Robin Welsh was a Scottish curler. He was part of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
- Einar Landvik
Einar Landvik (1898-?) is a Norwegian nordic skier who won the Holmenkollen medal in 1925. Landvik won bronze in the nordic combined at the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. Landvik also finished 5th in both the 18 km event and the individual ski jumping at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
- Laurence Jackson
Laurence Jackson was a Scottish curler. He was part of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team that won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924. He was the son of fellow gold-medallist Willie Jackson.
- Rodney Soher
Rodney E. Soher (* 1893) was a british bobsleigh driver and participant of the Olympic Games 1924. Together Ralph Broome, Thomas Arnold and Alexander Richardson he won the Olympic Silver Medal in the bobsleigh Great Britain II 1924 in Chamonix.
- Oscar Cullmann
Oscar Cullmann (25 February, 1902, Strasbourg - 16 January, 1999, Chamonix) was a Christian theologian in the Lutheran tradition. He is best known for his work in the ecumenical movement, being in part responsible for the establishment of dialogue between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions.
- Rolf Kaarby
Rolf Kaarby was a Norwegian nordic combined skier who competed in the 1930's. He won a silver medal in the individual event at the 1937 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix.
- William Jackson
William K. Jackson was a Scottish curler. He was the Skip of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924. He was the father of fellow gold-medallist Laurence Jackson.
- Aarne Valkama
Aarne Valkama was a Finnish nordic combined skier who competed in the 1930's. He won a bronze medal in the individual event at the 1937 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix.
- Thomas Murray
Tom Murray was a Scottish curler. He was part of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
- Robert Stadelmann
Robert Stadelmann is an Austrian nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 1997 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim and finished 52nd in the 15 km individual at the 1999 championships. Stadelmann's only individual career victory was in a World Cup event in Chamonix, France in 1999.
- Sigurd Sollid
Sigurd Sollid was a Norwegian ski jumper who competed in the 1930's. He won a ski jumping bronze at the 1937 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix.
- Sophie Bryant
Sophie Bryant (15 February 1850, Sandymount, Dublin - 29 August 1922, Chamonix, France) was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist. She was the daughter of Revd Dr William Willock DD, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin and was educated at home, largely by her father. At the age of sixteen she moved to London, when her father was appointed Professor of Geometry at London University, and she attended Bedford College.
- Albert Ingham
Albert Edward Ingham was an English mathematician. Ingham was born in Northampton. He obtained his Ph.D., which was supervised by John Edensor Littlewood, from the University of Cambridge. He supervised the Ph.D.s of Wolfgang Fuchs and Christopher Hooley. Ingham died in Chamonix, France. Ingham proved that if :<math>zetaleft(1/2+it ight)in Oleft(t^c ight)</math> for some positive constant "c", …
- Audrey Callaghan
Audrey Elizabeth Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff, "née" Audrey Elizabeth Moulton (July 28, 1915 - March 15, 2005) was the wife of British prime minister James Callaghan and was herself a politician and campaigner and fundraiser for children's health and welfare. She was born in Maidstone, Kent, joined the Labour Party despite her father being a director of the Lead Wool Company, a tool company. She would chair Maidstone Labour Party and Fabian Society.
- Richard Lewis Nettleship
Richard Lewis Nettleship (December 17, 1846 - August 25, 1892), English philosopher, youngest brother of Henry Nettleship, was educated at Uppingham and Balliol College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship. He won the Hertford scholarship, the Ireland, the Gaisford Greek verse prize, a Craven scholarship and the Arnold prize, but took only a second class in "Litterae Humaniores". He became fellow and tutor of his college and succeeded to the work of TH Green, …
- Charles Edward Bernard
Sir Charles Edward Bernard KCSI, (born 21 December 1837 in Bristol, England; died 19 September 1901) was Chief Commssioner of Lower Burma from 2 July 1880 to 2 March 1883 and Chief Commssioner of Burma from 25 September 1886 to 12 March 1887. He was the son of Dr James Fogo Bernard, MD and Marianne Amelia Lawrence. In 1862 he married Susan Capel Tawney, and they had eight children. Bernard was educated at Rugby School; Addiscombe; and Haileybury.
- Henry Dushan Edward Atkinson
Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon in London specialising in Lower Limb Joint Replacement Surgery, including primary and revision Hip, Knee, and Ankle Arthroplasty. I also have interests in Trauma Surgery and Sports Injuries. Fellowship training at St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, and SportsMed SA, Adelaide, Australia.
- William Windham Windham Sr.
William Windham, Senior, FRS (1717 – 30 October 1761) was an English landowner, a member of an ancient Norfolk family. The son of Ashe Windham and Elizabeth Dobyns, he made an extensive Grand Tour of Europe in his youth, accompanied by his tutor, Benjamin Stillingfleet. He left England in 1737. In 1740–1741, he and Stillingfleet were members of a circle of British expatriates, known as The Common Room, …
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- Charles Pennequin