Favre
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Favre is a French surname, and may refer to:
- Brett FavreBrett FavreBrett Lorenzo Favre is a former American football quarterback who spent the majority of his career with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League . He was a 20-year veteran of the NFL, having played quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons , Green Bay Packers , New York Jets and Minnesota...
(b. 1969), retired American football player (NFL) - Cristina Favre-MorettiCristina Favre-MorettiCristina Favre-Moretti, née Moretti , is a Swiss ski mountaineer. Her twin sister Isabella Crettenand-Moretti is also a ski mountaineer.- Selected results :* 1998:...
(b. 1963), Swiss ski mountaineer - Deanna FavreDeanna FavreDeanna Tynes Favre is an American activist and the wife of NFL quarterback Brett Favre. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, and later became an activist in the fight against the disease...
(b. 1968), wife of Brett Favre and American activist - Gilbert FavreGilbert FavreGilbert Favre was a flautist of Swiss descent. He also played the quena as a founding member of the popular Bolivian folk group Los Jairas. Favre was commonly referred to as "El Gringo" by the Bolivian public...
(1936-1998), Bolivian flautist - Jules FavreJules FavreJules Claude Gabriel Favre was a French statesman. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans faction.- Early life :...
(1809 – 1880), French statesman - Lucien FavreLucien FavreLucien Favre is a football manager and former Swiss international player. He is the current head coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach.- Playing career :...
(b. 1957), former Swiss footballer - Luis FavreLuis FavreLuis Favre is the pseudonym of Argentine-born Brazilian journalist and political activist Felipe Belisario Wermus. Born in Buenos Aires, Favre joined the political party Politica Obrera as a young man. Later, he moved to France and became a member of the Internationalist Communist Organisation ,...
(b. 1949), husband of ex-Mayor of São Paulo Marta SuplicyMarta SuplicyMarta Teresa Smith de Vasconcelos Suplicy is a Brazilian politician and psychologist. She was Mayor of São Paulo from 2001 to 2004 as a member of the Brazilian Workers' Party... - Pierre Favre known as "Peter Faber" (1506 – 1546), French Jesuit theologian
- Pierre Favre (musician)Pierre Favre (musician)Pierre Favre is a Swiss jazz drummer and percussionist born in Le Locle, Switzerland, perhaps most noteworthy for his work with Irene Schweizer....
(b. 1937), Swiss jazz drummer. - Louis FavreLouis FavreLouis Favre was a Swiss engineer, remembered as the builder of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel between 1872 and his death in the tunnel in 1879....
(1826 – 1879), Swiss civil engineer builder of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. - Claude Favre de VaugelasClaude Favre de VaugelasClaude Favre de Vaugelas was a French grammarian and man of letters. Although a life-long courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as seigneur of Vaugelas and baron of Peroges.Born at Meximieux, in the Ain département of France, he became...
(1585 – 1650), French grammarian.