Faure
Faure is an Occitan family name meaning blacksmith, from Latin faber. It is pronounced differently from the accented surname Fauré, as in Gabriel Fauré, French composer and organist.
People
- Camille Alphonse Faure, lead battery pioneer
- Edgar Faure, French politician
- Élie Faure, French art historian and essayist
- Félix Faure, 19th-century French president
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), French composer
- Gunter Faure, geochemist
- Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier
- Jacques Faure (ambassador), French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
- Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of the French military mission to Japan (1918–19)
- Jean-Baptiste Faure, French baritone and composer
- Keith Faure, Australian career criminal
- Luigi Faure (1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper
- Martine Faure, French politician
- Maurice Faure, French Resistance leader and politician, and the last surviving signatory of the Treaty of Rome
- Sébastien Faure, French anarchist
- Sébastien Faure (footballer), French footballer
- Trevor Faure, Australian Actor,
- Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo
Places
See also
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