Pelletier
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Pelletier is the name of several people.
Place Names
- Annie PelletierAnnie PelletierAnnie Pelletier is a retired female diver from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the women's 3 metres springboard event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...
, Canadian diver - Benoît PelletierBenoît PelletierBenoît Pelletier is lawyer, academic, and politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1998 to 2008 and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Jean Charest...
, Quebec Liberal Party minister and MNA in the National Assembly - Bruno PelletierBruno PelletierBruno Pelletier , is a francophone Quebecer singer.-Life:Pelletier was born in Charlesbourg, a suburb of Quebec City. In 1983 Pelletier performed in the bands Amanite and Sneak Preview, which sang in English. He later started a group called Pëll, singing in French. At 23 years old, he moved to...
, Canadian musician - David PelletierDavid PelletierDavid Jacques Pelletier is a Canadian pairs figure skater. With his partner Jamie Salé, he was the co-gold medal winner at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games...
, Canadian figure skater - Delphine PelletierDelphine PelletierDelphine Pelletier is an athlete from France, who competes in triathlon. Pelletier competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was the last athlete to finish, placing forty-fourth, out of the fifty athletes that started, with a time of 2:22:39.28.-References:*...
, French triathlete - Gérard PelletierGérard PelletierGérard Pelletier, PC, CC worked as a journalist for Le Devoir, a French-language newspaper in Montreal, Quebec. In 1961 he became editor-in-chief of the Montreal daily and North America's largest French circulating newspaper, La Presse...
, Canadian journalist - Irvin PelletierIrvin PelletierIrvin Pelletier is a Quebec politician and notary. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Rimouski. He represents the Parti Québécois....
, Canadian politician - Jacques Peletier du MansJacques Peletier du MansJacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier, in Latin: Peletarius , was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance....
, French humanist, poet and mathematician - J.D. Denis PelletierJ.D. Denis PelletierJ.D. Denis Pelletier is a judge currently serving on the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal.-References:Sources...
, judge serving on the Canadian Federal Court of AppealFederal Court of Appeal (Canada)The Federal Court of Appeal is a Canadian appellate court that hears cases concerning federal matters arising from certain federal Acts. The court was created on July 2, 2003 by the Courts Administration Service Act when it and the Federal Court were split from its predecessor, the Federal Court of... - Jean PelletierJean PelletierJean Pelletier, was a Canadian politician, who served as the 37th mayor of Quebec City, Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister's Office, and chairman of Via Rail...
, Canadian politician - Jean-Jacques PelletierJean-Jacques PelletierJean-Jacques Pelletier is a French Canadian philosophy professor and author. Pelletier was a long-time philosophy teacher with the Lévis-Lauzon post-secondary school, but is best known in several media as an author of French-language thrillers, some of which have an element of fantasy...
, Canadian philosopher and author - Jean-Marc PelletierJean-Marc PelletierJean-Marc Pelletier is an American-born, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently a Free Agent. He last played with the Hamburg Freezers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga...
, Canadian hockey goaltender - Joel PelletierJoel PelletierJoel Pelletier is a contemporary musician, painter, and writer.-Life:Born in Massachusetts in 1961, Pelletier received a degree in Music Composition from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, CT. Residing in Los Angeles since 1988, he has been active as a musician/songwriter/performer,...
, American artist, musician and writer - Madeleine PelletierMadeleine PelletierMadeleine Pelletier was a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist.Pelletier originally trained as an anthropologist studying the relationship between skull size and intelligence after Paul Broca with Charles Letourneau and Léonce Manouvrier...
, French feminist and psychiatrist - Narcisse PelletierNarcisse PelletierNarcisse Pelletier , born in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in the Vendée, was abandoned at the age of 14 in late September or early October, 1858, during the dry season, on eastern Cape York Peninsula in Australia...
, Cabin boy abandoned on the coast of Cape York PeninsulaCape York PeninsulaCape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland at the tip of the state of Queensland, Australia, the largest unspoilt wilderness in northern Australia and one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth...
in Australia in 1857 and spent 17 years among the Aborigines. - Nicolas Jacques PelletierNicolas Jacques PelletierNicolas Jacques Pelletier was a French highwayman who was the first person to be executed by means of the guillotine.-The robbery and subsequent sentencing:Pelletier routinely associated with a group of known criminals...
, French highwayman - Pierre-Joseph Pelletier, French chemist
- Wilfrid PelletierWilfrid PelletierJoseph Louis Wilfrid Pelletier , CC was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and arts administrator. He was instrumental in establishing the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, serving as the orchestra's first artistic director and conductor from 1935-1941...
, Canadian orchestra conductor - Yannick PelletierYannick PelletierYannick Pelletier is a Swiss chess player. He has been a Grandmaster since 2001, and won the Swiss Chess Championship in 1995, 2000, and 2002....
, Swiss chess player - Yves P. PelletierYves P. PelletierYves P. Pelletier is a Canadian film director, actor and comedian....
, Quebec actor and comedian
Place Names
- Lac Pelletier No. 107Lac Pelletier No. 107, SaskatchewanLac Pelletier No. 107 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located in the Census Division 4, in the southwestern corner of the province. The seat of the municipality is located in the village of Neville.-Demographics:...
, a rural municipalityRural municipalityA rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a form of municipality in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, perhaps best comparable to counties or townships in the western United States...
in the CanadianCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
provinceProvinceA province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...
of SaskatchewanSaskatchewanSaskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
. - Lac Pelletier, hamletHamlet (place)A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.