French tragedian (1606–1684)
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian.
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Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)
Pierre de Coubertin
Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee, and its second president.
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French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
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Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984 (1919–2000)
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician, lawyer, jurist, academic, author, and journalist who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.
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French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading French Impressionist artist.
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French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".
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French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy.
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Dutch painter (1872–1944)
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
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