Achille
Achille is a French and Italian masculine given name, derived from the Greek mythological hero Achilles. It may refer to:
People
Artists
- Achille Beltrame, Italian painter
- Achille Calici, Italian painter
- Achille Castiglioni, Italian designer
- Achille Cattaneo, Italian painter
- Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer
- Achille Duchêne, French garden designer
- Achille Empéraire, French painter
- Achille Formis, Italian painter
- Achille Funi, Italian painter
- Achille Glisenti, Italian painter
- Achille Granchi-Taylor, French painter and illustrator
- Achille Lega, Italian painter
- Achille Leonardi, Italian painter
- Achille Locatelli (painter), Italian painter
- Achille Mauzan, French illustrator, painter and sculptor
- Achille Etna Michallon, French painter
- Achille Mollica, Italian painter
- Achille Peretti (artist), Italian painter, sculptor and anarchist
- Achille Petrocelli, Italian painter
- Achille Pinelli, Italian painter
- Achille Solari, Italian painter
- Achille Valois, French designer and sculptor
- Achille Vertunni, Italian painter
- Achille Vianelli, Italian painter
- Achille Zo, French painter
Musicians, composers and singers
- Achille Baquet, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
- Achille De Bassini, Italian baritone
- Achille Campisiano, French pianist and composer
- Achille Rivarde, American-born British violinist and teacher
- Achille Simonetti, Italian violinist and composer
- Achille-Claude Debussy, French impressionistic composer and pianist
Politicians
- Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician
- Achille Casanova, Swiss journalist and politician
- Achille Corona, Italian socialist politician, lawyer and journalist
- Achille Joseph Delamare, French senator
- Achille Larue, Canadian lawyer and politician
- Achille Mapelli, Italian politician and journalist
- Achille Occhetto, Italian politician
- Achille Peretti, French politician
- Achille Serra (politician), Italian politician
- Achille Starace, Italian fascist leader before and during World War II
Religious figures
- Achille Grassi, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
- Achille Gagliardi, Italian ascetic writer and Jesuit
- Achille Glorieux, French Catholic prelate, archbishop and diplomat
- Achille Harlay de Sancy, French diplomat, linguist, orientalist and Catholic bishop
- Achille Liénart, French Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop
- Achille Ratti, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal, later Pius XI
- Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, French military leader, a Knight of Malta and Catholic cardinal
Scientists and mathematicians
- Achille Allier, French archaeologist, writer and art critic
- Achille Costa, Italian entomologist
- Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist
- Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour, French astronomer and mathematician
- Achille Marie Gaston Floquet, French mathematician
- Achille Gerste, Belgian Catholic priest, Jesuit, philologist and linguist
- Achille Guenée, French entomologist and lawyer
- Achille Loria, Italian Jewish political economist and sociologist
- A. E. Meeussen, Belgian philologist
- Achille Müntz, French agricultural chemist
- Achille Ouy, French philosopher and sociologist
- Achille Urbain, French biologist
- Achille Valenciennes, French zoologist
Sportsmen
- Achille Anani, Ivorian footballer playing in France
- Achille Campion, French footballer
- Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer and skier
- Achille Coser, Italian football goalkeeper
- Achille Emaná, Cameroonian footballer
- Achille Fould (bobsleigh), French bobsledder
- Achille Varzi, Italian Grand Prix race car driver
Other
- Achille Ballière, French architect
- Achille Boitel, French businessman and Nazi collaborator
- Achille Jubinal, French medievalist
- Achille Leclère, French architect and teacher of architecture
- Achille Majeroni, Italian film actor
- Achille Maramotti, Italian fashion designer and founder of Max Mara, an Italian fashion company
- Achille Marozzo, Italian fencing master
- Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist
- Achille Millien, French poet and folklorist
- Achille Millo, stage name of Italian actor, voice actor and stage director Achille Scognamillo
- Prince Achille Murat, eldest son of Joachim Murat
- Achille St. Onge, American publisher of miniature books
- Achille Zavatta, French clown, artist and circus operator
Fictional characters
- Achille Poirot, the "brother" of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in the novel The Big Four
- the title character of Achille Talon, a comic book series
- the title character of Achille in Sciro, a 1737 opera
- Rodrigue Achille Fraldarius, a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses