Blaise (name)
Blaise is a personal name (from Greek Βλάσιος, the name of Saint Blaise) and surname.
List of people with the given name Blaise
- Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne, Gambian foreign minister and United Nations representative
- Blaise Alexander, American race car driver
- Blaise Cendrars, Franco-Swiss novelist and poet
- Blaise Compaoré, President of Burkina Faso
- Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician, mayor of Dakar
- Blaise Garza, American actor
- Blaise Gisbert, French Jesuit rhetorician and critic
- Blaise Koissy, Côte d'Ivoire football player
- Blaise Kouassi, Côte d'Ivoire football player
- Blaise Kufo, Congolese-Swiss football player
- Blaise Matuidi, French football player
- Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
- Blaise de Montluc, respected French soldier
- Blaise Sonnery, French cyclist
- Blaise Daniel Staples, American classicist
- Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer
- Blaise Winter, American football player and speaker
- Mamadou Blaise Sangaré, Malian politician
- Jean-Blaise Martin, French opera singer
- Fictional people
- Blaise, in some accounts, a master of Merlin in Arthurian legends. In Malory's version appears to Merlin to warn him of Nimue's mischief
- Blaise Jeannot Andrieux, a character from the Wild Cards series of books
- Blaise Curci, French crime lord in The French Connection
- Blaise Zabini, minor Slytherin character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
List of people with the surname Blaise
- Clark Blaise, Canadian author
- Fabolon Blaise, Haitian painter
- Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier, French poet, dramatist, and politician
- Pierre Blaise, French actor
- Saint Blaise, Armenian physician and bishop of Sebaste (Sivas)
- Saint-Louis Blaise, Haitian painter
- Serge Moléon Blaise, Haitian painter
- Tara Blaise, Irish singer
- Jean-Blaise Kololo, Congolese politician and diplomat
- Blaise Tshibwabwa, Canadian writer
- Fictional people
- Modesty Blaise, heroine of a Peter O'Donnell comic strip
Spellings
The following forenames are related to the forename Blaise:
- Armenian: Բարսեղ (Barsegh)
- Catalan: Blai
- English: Blaise
- French: Blaise
- Galician: Βrais
- Greek: Βλασιος (Vlasios)
- Hungarian: Balázs
- Italian: Biagio
- Latin: Blasius
- Polish: Błażej
- Portuguese: Brás (archaic spelling Braz)
- Romanian: Vlasie
- Russian: Власий (Vlasiy)
- Spanish: Blas
- Turkish: Vlas
See also
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