Baillon (disambiguation)
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Baillon is a surname
of French
origin, and may refer to:
Surname
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of French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
origin, and may refer to:
- Henri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest BaillonHenri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...
(1827–1895), French physician and botanist - Louis Antoine François BaillonLouis Antoine François BaillonLouis Antoine François Baillon was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville....
(1778–1851), French naturalist and collector - Louis Charles BaillonLouis BaillonLouis Charles Baillon is a former field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the Great Britain team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. He is the only Falkland Islander to become an Olympic champion....
(1881–1965), Falkland Islands field-hockey player