Élie

Élie is the French equivalent of "Elias" or "Elijah."^[1]

French masculine given name[]

Élie Aboud (1959) Lebanese-French politician
Élie Barnavi (born 1946) Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002.
Élie Baup (1955) French football player and now manager
Élie Bayol (1914–1995) French racing driver
Élie Benoist (1640–1728) French Protestant minister and historian of the Edict of Nantes
Élie Berthet (1815–1891) French novelist
Élie Bertrand (1713–1797) Swiss French geologist
Élie Bloncourt (1896–1978) Guadeloupe-born French politician of the 1930s.
Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) French Huguenot refugee in Ireland and the first librarian of Marsh's Library
Élie Brousse (1921) French rugby league player
Élie Cartan (1869–1951) French mathematician
Élie Castor (1943–1996) French Guiana politician
Élie Chouraqui (1950) French film director
Élie Diodati (1576–1661) Swiss French jurist
Élie Dohin (1983) French football midfielder
Élie Domota (1963) trade union leader from Guadeloupe
Élie Ducommun (d.1906) was winner of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
Élie, duc Decazes (1780–1860)
Élie Dupuis (1994) Canadian actor
Élie Doté (1947) Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from June 2005 to January 2008
Élie Ehua (1992) French footballer
Élie Faure (1873–1937) French art historian
Élie Frédéric Forey (1804–1872) Marshal of France
Élie Catherine Fréron (1719–1776) French (male) writer and controversialist
Élie Fruchart (1922) French football player
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) French historian
Élie Halévy (Chalfan) (1760–1826) French Hebrew poet and author
Élie Hoarau (1938) Réunion politician
Élie Kakou (1960–1999) French comic actor
Élie Kroupi (1979) French-Ivorian football player
Élie Lacerte (1821–1898) Quebec physician and political figure
Élie Lacoste (1745–1806) French politician during the French Revolution
Élie Lellouche (1952) French horse trainer
Élie Lescot (1883–1974) President of Haiti from 1941
Élie Mailloux (1830–1893) Quebec political figure
Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916) Russian biologist, known by French name
Élie Reclus (1827–1904) French anarchist and ethnographer
Élie de Rothschild (1917–2007) French banker
Élie Saint-Hilaire (1839–1888) political figure in Quebec
Élie Semoun (1963) French comedian
Élie Vinet (1509–1587) French Renaissance humanist
Élie Wollman (1917–2008) French geneticist

Double and middle names[]

Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874) French geologist
Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont (1732–1786) French Protestant
Élie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896) French botanist
Joseph Élie Cholette Canadian politician
Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891) French painter
Jacques Derrida, born Jackie Élie Derrida (1930–2004) Sephardic French-Algerian philosopher
Marguerite-Élie Guadet (1758–1794) French (male) political figure of the Revolutionary period
Nil-Élie Larivière (1899–1969) Quebec politician
Marie Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet (1858–1937) 19th Prince de Chimay, French fencer at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750–1819) Martinique creole colonist
Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau (1822–1878) Quebec businessman and political figure
François-Élie Vincent (1708–1790) Swiss painter of portrait miniatures.

Variant spellings[]

Hélie and Hélias, also Élias:

Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (cardinal) (1301–1364) also Élie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Bishop of Auxerre
Hélias de Saint-Yrieix (died 1367) French Benedictine abbot, bishop and cardinal.
Hélie de Bourdeilles (ca. 1423–1484) French Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and cardinal.

Surname[]

Antonio Élie (1893–1968) Canadian politician
Romain Élie (1985) French football defender
Louis-Pierre Hélie (1986) Canadian skier

Geographical names[]

Saint-Élie a commune of French Guiana
Rock Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville, borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec
Mont-Élie, Quebec, unorganized territory in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec
Saint-Élie-de-Caxton municipality in the Mauricie region of the province

References[]

^ The Complete Baby Name Book 1989 Page 92 "It was revived in the seventeenth century by the Puritans, and it's still used, especially by religious Protestant families. Famous name: Elie Wiesel (novelist) Variations: Elia (Italian), Elias (English), Élie (French), ..."

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[1] The Complete Baby Name Book 1989 Page 92 "It was revived in the seventeenth century by the Puritans, and it's still used, especially by religious Protestant families. Famous name: Elie Wiesel (novelist) Variations: Elia (Italian), Elias (English), Élie (French), ..."

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