Cécile
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Cécile or Cecile is a female given name or surname:
- Cécile AubryCécile AubryCécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director.Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer...
(born 1928), retired French film actress and television screenwriter and director - Cécile BrunschvicgCécile BrunschvicgCécile Brunschvicg , born Cécile Kahn , was a French feminist politician....
(1877-1946), French feminist politician - Cécile BruyèreCécile BruyèreMadame Cécile Bruyère was the first abbess of St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes and a follower of Dom Prosper Guéranger in the revival of Benedictine spirituality in 19th century France.-Life:...
(1845-1909), Benedictine nun - Cécile ChaminadeCécile ChaminadeCécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey, Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick and Benjamin Godard, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical...
(1857-1944), French composer and pianist - Cecile de BrunhoffCecile de BrunhoffCecile de Brunhoff was a French storyteller and the co-creator of the Babar stories. Cecile de Brunhoff was also a classically trained pianist....
(1903-2003), French storyteller - Cécile de FranceCécile de FranceCécile de France is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as L'Art de la séduction and Irène , she gained international attention for her lead role in Haute Tension and Hereafter .- Career :Born in Namur, she left Belgium at the age of 17 to go to Paris where she...
(born 1975), Belgian actress - Cécile de MaronCécile de MaronCécile Antoinette de Maron is a fictional character on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The role was portrayed by actress Yvonne Burbach from October 24, 2001 to January 23, 2006.-Storylines:...
, a fictional character on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe - Cécile GuillameCécile GuillameCécile Guillame was the first woman who engraved French postal stamps.During the 1950s, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Nancy and Paris where she chose the art of engraving...
(1933-2004), French engraver - Cecile Hulse MatschatCecile Hulse MatschatCecile Hulse Matschat was an American author, geographer and botanist. Matschat primarily was a writer of books on gardens, gardening and the Okefenokee Swamp. Her book, Suwanee River: Strange Green Land provided rare insight into the society and history of the people of the Okefenokee Swamp...
(1895-1976), American author, geographer and botanist - Cecile Laveau-Perrin, a fictional character in Kushiel's Legacy
- Cecile LicadCecile LicadCecile Licad is a renowned Filipina virtuoso classical pianist dubbed as a "a pianist's pianist" by The New Yorker, "her artistry, a blend of daring musical instinct and superb training." -Biography:...
(born 1961), Filipina virtuoso classical pianist - Cécile Lignot-MaubertCécile Lignot-MaubertCécile Lignot-Maubert is a retired female hammer thrower from France. She set her personal best on August 8, 1999 at a meet in Castres.-Achievements:-References:...
(born 1971), French hammer thrower - Cécile ManorohantaCécile ManorohantaCécile Manorohanta is a Malagasy politician, currently serving in the government of Madagascar as Deputy Prime Minister for the Interior. Previously she was Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2009....
(21st century), Malagasy politician - Cecile O'RahillyCecile O'RahillyDr. Cecile O'Rahilly was a scholar of the Celtic languages and the sister of the Celtic scholar T. F. O'Rahilly. She is best known for her editions/translations of the various recensions of the Ulster Cycle epic saga Táin Bó Cúailnge....
(1894-1980), Irish scholar - Cecile of FranceCecile of FranceCecile of France was a daughter of Philip I of France and Bertrade of Montfort. The Historia Regum Francorum Monasterii Sancti Dionysii names "Philippum et Florum et filiam unam" as children of "Philippus rex [et] Fulconi Rechin Andagavorum comiti uxorem", specifying that the daughter married...
(circa 1097-1145), French princess - Cécile OussetCécile OussetCécile Ousset is a French pianist.Cécile Ousset was born in Tarbes, France, and gave her first recital at the age of five, subsequently studying at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10 with Marcel Ciampi where, aged only fourteen, she was awarded first prize in the piano graduation class of...
(born 1936), French pianist - Cécile PaoliCécile PaoliCécile Paoli is a French actress who is also well known on British television from the series Sharpe, Bergerac and Holby City.She played Isabelle de Chamonpierre in the 1989 television serial The Ginger Tree, based on the novel by Oswald Wynd. In Sharpe, she portrayed Lucille Castineau.-External...
(21st century), French actress - Cecile PlatovskyCecile PlatovskyCecile Platovsky, the well renowned designer, was raised in Belgium, before moving to New York, where she began Tricot St. Raphael, the menswear company in 1974...
(20th century), Belgian American fashion designer - Cecile ReynaudCecile ReynaudDr. Cecile Reynaud is a well-known volleyball educator and a retired coach of the Florida State Lady Seminoles volleyball team. She is currently an associate professor with the sport management program at Florida State University. She also served as an interim assistant athletic director and senior...
(21st century), volleyball educator - Cecile RichardsCecile RichardsCecile Richards a Democratic Party activist and the current president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.-Political involvement:...
(21st century), current president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America - Cécile RigauxCécile RigauxCécile Rigaux is a former female beach volleyball player from France, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Partnering Anabelle Prawerman she claimed the silver medal at the 1999 European Championships.-References:* at the Beach Volleyball Database...
(born 1969), French beach volleyball player - Cécile Schott (21st century), French musician
- Cecile SinclairCecile SinclairCecile Sinclair is an English-Dutch model. She is best known as the winner of the third cycle of Holland's Next Top Model.-Biography:Sinclair was born to one English and one Dutch parent in Manama, Bahrain...
(born 1987), Dutch model - Cécile Vogt-MugnierCécile Vogt-MugnierCecile Vogt-Mugnier was a French neurologist from Haute-Savoie.-Family:She obtained her medical doctorate in Paris and was the student of Pierre Marie. There she met her future husband, Oskar Vogt, when he came to Paris to work with Joseph Jules Déjérine...
(1875-1962), French neurologist - Louis-Pierre CécileLouis-Pierre CécileLouis-Pierre Cécile was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 to 1967 as a Progressive Conservative member....
(born 1905), Ontario lawyer and political figure - Princess Marie Cécile of PrussiaPrincess Marie Cécile of PrussiaPrincess Marie-Cécile of Prussia , , is the second daughter of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia and his wife, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia.-Marriage and children:...
(born 1942), first wife of Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg - Severin Cecile AbegaSeverin Cecile AbegaSeverin Cecile Abega was a Cameroonian author, anthropologist and researcher.-Biography:Severin Cecile Abega was born in 1955 at Saa in the South of Cameroon...
(1955-2008), Cameroonian author
See also
- Sainte-Cécile (disambiguation)