Hervé
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Hervé is a French
French language
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given name
Given name
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of Breton
Breton language
Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...
origin. In English, it is sometimes rendered Harvey
Harvey
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or Hervey. It already appears in Latin
Latin
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sources of the eighth century as Charivius. A later Latin form is Herveus. It derives from Old Breton Huiarnviu (cf. Old Welsh Haarnbiu) composed of OB hoiarn > Breton houarn “iron” (Welsh haearn) and OB viu > Breton bev “bright”, “blazing”.
The common Celtic root must be *isarno-biuos or *-ue(s)uos. It is widely asserted (though not all linguists would agree) that Old Celtic isarno- gave birth to the Germanic word that led to English iron
Iron
Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...
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The name may refer to:
- Saint HervéSaint HervéSaint Hervé of Brittany is a Breton saint of the sixth century. Along with Saint Ives, he is one of the most popular Breton saints. His birthplace is stated as being Guimiliau , and his legend states that he was the son of a renowned bard named Hyvarnion, a former member of the court of...
, 6th-century Breton saint- Saint-HervéSaint-HervéSaint-Hervé is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor département in Bretagne in northwestern France.-Population:-External links:*...
, French commune - Saint-M'HervéSaint-M'HervéSaint-M'Hervé is a small commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in north-western France.-Demographics:Inhabitants of Saint-M'Hervé are called in French Saint-M'Hervéens.-References:* * -External links:*...
, French commune
- Saint-Hervé
- ChariviusChariviusCharivius or Hervé was a Frankish dux Cenomannicus or Duke of Maine in the early eighth century. In 723 he seized the revenues of the Diocese of Le Mans. On the death of the bishop Herlemund he took control of the see and its monasteries and appointed his illiteratre son Gauciolenus bishop...
, Duke of Maine (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
723) - Hervé (Norman)Hervé (Norman)Hervé , called Frankopoulos or Phrangopoulos , was a Norman mercenary general in Byzantine service during the 1050s.According to Amatus of Montecassino, Hervé and other Norman mercenaries fought for the Byzantine Empire under George Maniakes against the Muslims in Sicily in 1038-1040...
(fl. 1050s), Byzantine general of Norman extraction - Hervey le BretonHervey le BretonHervey le Breton was a Breton cleric who became Bishop of Bangor in Wales and later Bishop of Ely in England. Appointed to Bangor by King William II of England, when Normans were advancing into Wales, Hervey was unable to remain in his diocese when the Welsh began to drive the Normans back from...
(died 1131), Bishop of Bangor and later Bishop of Ely - Hervé IV of DonzyHervé IV of DonzyHervé IV of Donzy was a French nobleman and participant in the Fifth Crusade. By marriage in 1200 to Mahaut de Courtenay , daughter of Peter II of Courtenay, he became Count of Nevers....
(1173–1223), French nobleman - Harvey of LéonHarvey of LéonHarvey 1st Earl of Wiltshire was a Viscount of Léon from 1103 until his death. Harvey struggled to maintain the de facto independence of Léon from his immediate overlord, the Duke of Brittany, and the influence of the Kingdom of England across the Channel...
, Breton viscount - HervéHervé (composer)Hervé , real name Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger, was a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman, following Reynaldo Hahn, credited with inventing the genre of operetta in Paris.-Life:Hervé was born in Houdain near Arras...
(1825–1892), stage name of French operetta composer, singer, librettist and conductor, born Florimond Ronger - Hervé (DJ)Hervé (DJ)Joshua Harvey, otherwise known as Hervé, is a DJ/producer from the UK. Hervé is known for rave-orientated productions and DJ sets.Along with Sinden and Kid Sister, his track "Beeper" reached number 1 on the dance chart in April 2008....
, DJ and producer in the UK - Hervé AlicarteHervé AlicarteHervé Alicarte is a retired French football defender.His previous clubs include Montpellier HSC, Bordeaux, Toulouse FC, AC Ajaccio and Servette FC.Hervé's brother is Bruno Alicarte.-External links:*...
, French footballer - Hervé ArsèneHervé ArsèneHervé Arsène is a French-Malagasy football player who played with US Saint André, RC Lens and La Roche Vendée Football.-Career:Born in Nosy Be, Madagascar, Arsène began playing football for local side AS Sotema...
, French-Malagasy footballer - Hervé BallandHervé BallandHervé Balland is a French cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 1998. He won a silver medal in the 50 km event at the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun....
, French cross-country skier - Hervé BazinHervé BazinHervé Bazin was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families.- Biography :...
, French writer - Hervé BiausserHervé BiausserHervé Biausser is the Director of Ecole Centrale Paris , a post he has held since September 2003 when he replaced Daniel Gourisse...
, French university director - Hervé BochudHervé BochudHervé Bochud is a footballer from France who currently plays as strong defender for FC La Tour/Le Pâquier.He has also been ambassador for Swiss Association of Football Players .-External links:* *...
, Swiss footballer - Hervé BohbotHervé BohbotHerve Bohbot is a French Scrabble player who competes annually in both French and English language Scrabble competitions. He is also an administrator on the online Scrabble site Internet Scrabble Club, the president of the French matchplay Scrabble committee and an official on the International...
, French Scrabble player - Hervé BugnetHervé BugnetHervé Bugnet is a French footballer who currently plays for Évian Thonon Gaillard FC.-External links:*...
, French footballer - Hervé CarréHervé CarréHervé Carré is a French economist and Eurostat's general director since May 18, 2006.-Career:After graduating in econometrics in Paris, Carré joined the European Commission in 1973 as an administrator...
, French economist - Hervé CuillandreHervé CuillandreHervé Cuillandre is a French novelist and photographer who studied social behaviour and human destiny.- Bibliography :* Une nuit au bureau * Marche et crève!...
, French writer - Hervé de Bourg-DieuHervé de Bourg-DieuHervé de Bourg-Dieu was a French Benedictine exegete.He is known particularly for his Commentarii in Isaiam prophetam, on the Book of Isaiah.-References:*Germain Morin, Un critique en liturgie au XIIe siècle...
(c. 1080–1150), Benedictine monk - Hervé de CharetteHervé de CharetteHervé de Charette is a French centre-right politician.He is a descendant of the royalist military leader François de Charette. Member of the Union for French Democracy , he was elected deputy for the first time in 1986 as representative of the Maine-et-Loire département...
, French politician - Hervé de LuzeHervé de LuzeHervé de Luze is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. de Luze has been director Roman Polanski's principal editor since Pirates , including the much honored...
, French film director - Hervé Di RosaHervé Di RosaHervé Di Rosa is a French painter.Born in Sète, France, Hervé Di Rosa is a French painter who brings to life the unique characters who populate his work through the making of paintings, sculptures, installations, animation movies, editions, portraying these unique individuals. In America we had...
, French painter - Hervé Duclos-LassalleHervé Duclos-LassalleHervé Duclos-Lassalle is a French professional road bicycle racer. His father is Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle. He was the first rider to leave the 2008 Tour de France after breaking his left wrist on the first stage.- Palmares :...
, French cyclist - Hervé FayeHervé FayeHervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. Arago.He...
, French astronomer - Hervé FilionHervé FilionHervé Filion, is a Canadian harness racer.Born in Angers, Quebec, Filion was the first driver to win over 400 races in a year in 1968 and was able to achieve this accomplishment 14 more times...
, Canadian harness racer - Hervey Frederick, Earl of BristolBristolBristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
and Bishop of DerryDerryDerry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Irish name Doire or Doire Cholmcille meaning "oak-wood of Colmcille"... - Hervé GauthierHervé GauthierHervé Gauthier is a retired French footballer and coach.He played for Stade Poitevin, Lille OSC, Stade Lavallois and RC Paris....
, French footballer and coach - Hervé GaymardHervé GaymardHervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005....
, French politician - Hervé GuibertHervé GuibertHervé Guibert was a homosexual French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to AIDS...
, French writer - Hervé GuilleuxHervé GuilleuxHervé Guilleux is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from France. His best year was in 1983 when he won the 250cc Spanish Grand Prix and finished the season in fourth place in the 250cc world championship.- References :...
, French motorcycle racer - Hervé GuyHervé GuyHervé Guy, , is a Côte d'Ivoire football striker who is currently unemployed.- Career :Guy began his career in the youth from French club SC Bastia and played his first game on 1 February 2003 against AC Ajaccio. He was permanent promoted in 2006 to the Ligue 2 team from SC Bastia...
, Ivorian footballer - Hervé KageHervé KageHervé Kage is a Belgian footballer. He currently plays for Beitar Jerusalem.-Career:Kage began his career on youthside with FC ASSE-Zellik 2002 and was in summer 2004 scouted from R.S.C. Anderlecht. On 24 January 2007 left R.S.C. Anderlecht and joined on loan to Eredivisie team RKC Waalwijk...
, Belgian footballer - Hervé KambouHervé KambouHervé Kambou is an Ivorian football player that playing for SC Bastia in the French Ligue 2.-Career:He began his career at Jean-Marc Guillou´s football school Académie de Sol Beni, joined than 2004 to Toumodi FC and one year later to Thailand club BEC Tero Sasana FC. In the 2007-2008 season he...
, Ivorian footballer - Hervé LacellesHervé LacellesJoseph Harvey Milton Lacelle was a Canadian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Ottawa. In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze medalist Fidel Ortiz...
, Canadian boxer - Hervé Le TellierHervé Le TellierHervé Le Tellier is a French writer and linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo...
, French writer - Hervé MakukaHervé MakukaHervé McCarthy Makuka is a Swiss footballer who plays as for FC Tuggen- Career :He began his career by FC Sarnen before 2000 joined to the youth from FC Luzern and played 51 games with the youth and shoots 6 goals, in 2004 was promoted to the first team and climbed with his team 2006 in the Swiss...
, Swiss footballer - Hervé MorinHervé MorinHervé Morin is a French politician, leader of the New Center party and a former French Minister of Defence.-Member of National Assembly:...
, French politician - Hervaeus NatalisHervaeus NatalisHervaeus Natalis was a Dominican theologian, the 14th Master of the Dominicans, and the author of a number of works on philosophy and theology. Among his many writings may be included the Summa Totius Logicae, an opusculum once attributed to Thomas Aquinas.-Life:Natalis joined the Dominicans in...
(1260–1323), French Dominican theologian - Hervé Ndjana OnanaHervé Ndjana OnanaHervé Anselme Ndjana Onana is a football player from Cameroon, the midfielder plays in Belgium for Waasland-Beveren on loan from K. Sint-Truidense V.V..- Career :...
, Cameroonian footballer - Hervé NovelliHervé NovelliHervé Novelli is a French politician of Italian origin, and a past member of the UDF group. He was a deputé in the Assemblée Nationale for the Indre-et-Loire département from 2002 to 2007, having previously been a député from 1993-1997...
, French politician - Hervé Nzelo-LembiHervé Nzelo-LembiNzelo Hervé Lembi is a Congolese football player, who has been capped many times for his country.A defender, he has played for Germinal Beerschot since autumn 2007....
, Congolese footballer - Hervé PailletHervé PailletHervé Paillet is a French actor and painter born with atrophied legs. He is the fifth child of his family. His legs were amputated when he was three years old, and he uses a wheelchair. Eventually he learned to run with his arms and became a weightlifter. As a teenager he won a silver medal in...
, French actor - Hervé PiccirilloHervé PiccirilloHervé Piccirillo . Is a French football referee. He has been a referee in the French Football Federation since 1990 and a FIFA-referee since 2005.-References:...
, French football referee - Hervé RenardHervé RenardHervé Renard is a French football manager and former professional player. He is currently the head coach of Zambia national football team.- Playing career :...
, French football manager - Hervé RevelliHervé RevelliHervé Revelli, is a French former footballer. He is well known for having won the French Championship the equal most amount of times of any player...
, French footballer - Hervé RielHervé RielHervé Riel was a French fisherman of the 17th century, from Le Croisic in Brittany. His claim to fame is that while serving with the French Navy he was instrumental in saving the French fleet following the battle of Barfleur in 1692...
, French fisherman - Hervé ThisHervé ThisHervé This is a French physical chemist who works for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique at AgroParisTech, in Paris . His main area of scientific research is molecular gastronomy, that is the science of culinary phenomena .With the late Nicholas Kurti, he coined the...
, French chemist - Hervé TumHervé TumHervé Tum is a Cameroonian football striker currently playing for Gençlerbirliği in the Turkish Super League.- References :**...
, Cameroonian footballer - Hervé VillechaizeHervé VillechaizeHervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor who achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island...
(1943–1993), actor - J. Hervé ProulxJ. Hervé ProulxJ. Hervé Proulx was a merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Madawaska County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1944 to 1948 as a Liberal member....
, Canadian politician
As a surname, it may refer to:
- Antoine HervéAntoine HervéAntoine Hervé is a French composer and pianist.Hervé studied composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. Between 1987 and 1989 he was director of the French National Jazz Orchestra...
, French composer - Cédric HervéCédric HervéCédric Hervé is a French former road racing cyclist.Hervé became a professional rider in 2002. His first win came in 2006 when he won the Manche Atlantique. Later that year he would also win the Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan...
, French cyclist - Edmond HervéEdmond HervéEdmond Hervé is a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party and French senator since 2008. He was the mayor of Rennes from 1977 to 2008, succeeding Henri Fréville...
, French politician - Francis HervéFrancis HervéFrancis Hervé, Esquire was a French born British artist and travel writer.He traveled in the Levant in about 1833. Hervé was commissioned by philhellene British General Richard Church to produce a series of portraits of the leaders of the Greek War of Independence...
, French-British artist - Gustave HervéGustave HervéGustave Hervé was a French politician. At first he was a fervent antimilitarist socialist and pacifist, but he later turned to equally zealous ultranationalism, declaring his patriotisme in 1912 when released from 26 months of imprisonment for anti-militarist publishing activities.Hervé in 1919...
, French politician - Lucien HervéLucien HervéLucien Hervé was a Jewish Hungarian-French photographer well known for his black-and-white photos of architecture, especially that of Le Corbusier, with whom he had a nearly 20-year collaboration....
, French-Hungarian photographer - Pascal HervéPascal HervéPascal Hervé is a former French road racing cyclist. He was tested positive for EPO after the prologue in 2001 Giro d'Italia.- Major achievements :1994Pascal Hervé is a former French road racing cyclist...
, French cyclist
As a pen name it refers to
- HervéHervé (composer)Hervé , real name Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger, was a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman, following Reynaldo Hahn, credited with inventing the genre of operetta in Paris.-Life:Hervé was born in Houdain near Arras...
(1825–1892), stage name of French operetta composer, singer, librettist and conductor, born Florimond Ronger