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[]
Politicians[]
- Edgar Faure, French politician
- Félix Faure, 19th-century French president
- Fernand Faure (1853–1929), French economist and politician
- , French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
- 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
- Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo
Writers, artists, and musicians[]
- Élie Faure, French art historian and essayist
- Gabriel Faure (1877-1962), French poet, novelist and essayist
- Gabriel Fauré, French composer
- Jean-Baptiste Faure, French baritone and composer
- Lucie Faure, French writer
- Renée Faure, French actress
Others[]
- Abraham Faure (1795-1875), South African clergyman
- Camille Alphonse Faure, French chemical engineer
- Gunter Faure, American geochemist
- Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier
- Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of the French military mission to Japan (1918–19)
- Keith Faure, Australian career criminal
- Luigi Faure (1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper
- Sébastien Faure (footballer), French footballer
See also[]
- Fauré
- Faur
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Categories:
- Occupational surnames
- Surnames
- Occitan-language surnames