Pierre
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French. It is a translation of Aramaic כיפא,'' the nickname Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as Saint Peter. Pierre is also found as a surname.
As a nickname, "Pierre" can be shortened to "Pierrot" or "Pier".
People with the given name
- Monsieur Pierre, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle, French ballroom dancer and dance teacher
- Pierre, Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
- Pierre, Pierre Wagner Oliveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
- Pierre, Baron of Beauvau
- Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre
- Pierre, marquis de Fayet, French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue
- Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, father of Rainier III of Monaco
- Pierre Affre, French sculptor
- Pierre Agostini, French physicist
- Pierre Alarie, Canadian ambassador
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, professional footballer who plays for the English club Chelsea and the Gabon national football team
- Pierre Audi, French-Lebanese theatre director and artistic director
- Pierre Barbe, French architect
- Pierre Bézier, engineer and mathematician known for his work with Bézier curves
- Pierre Blaise, French film actor
- Pierre Bordier, French politician
- Pierre Boulez, French classical and electronic composer
- Pierre Boulle, French author
- Pierre Bourgault, public speaker, journalist and politician famed for his work for Quebec independence from Canada
- Pi'erre Bourne, American record producer, rapper, songwriter, and audio engineer.
- Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician and lead singer of Simple Plan
- Pierre Brice, French actor
- Pierre Caille, several people
- Pierre Capretz, host of French in Action
- Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
- Pierre Cathala, French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944
- Pierre Chambrin, White House Executive Chef
- Pierre Champoux, Canadian ice hockey official
- Pierre Chouteau, Jr.,, American fur trader who established the trading post of Fort Pierre in 1832
- Pierre Clostermann, French pilot who fought in World War II for the Royal Air Force
- Pierre Coffin, animator known for the Minions franchise
- Pierre Conner, American mathematician
- Pierre Corneille, French playwright known for Le Cid
- Pierre Corréia, French rugby union player
- Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games
- Pierre Courthion, Swiss art critic and historian
- Pierre Curie, French physicist and husband of Marie Curie
- Pierre Dagher, Lebanese actor and voice actor
- Pierre Darmon, French tennis player
- Pierre Daru, French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet
- Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician
- Pierre Deladonchamps, French actor
- Pierre Deland, Swedish actor and director
- Pierre Pelerin de Maricourt, French scholar
- Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
- Pierre Dolbeault, French mathematician
- Pierre Engvall, Swedish ice hockey forward
- Pierre Fourier, Catholic saint and French priest
- Pierre Franckh, German actor
- Pierre Gagnaire, French chef
- Pierre Gagnier, Canadian politician
- Pierre Garçon, American football player
- Pierre Gasly, racing driver currently driving for Alpine F1 Team in Formula One
- Pierre Gaspard, French mountain climber and guide
- Pierre Gaspard, Belgian physicist and professor
- Pierre Gemayel, politician and founder of the Al-Kataeb party in Lebanon
- Pierre Godin, Canadian politician
- Pierre David Guetta, French DJ, record producer and songwriter
- Pierre Harmel, former Belgian Prime Minister
- Pierre Henry, French musician
- Pierre Hermans, Dutch field hockey goalkeeper
- Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg, Danish professional footballer
- Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
- Pierre Jallow, Gambian basketball player
- Pierre Jeanpierre, French soldier
- Pierre Yves Kéralum, French-American priest and architect
- Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
- Pierre Lavertu, Canadian football player
- Pierre Le Faguays, French sculptor
- Pierre Levasseur, several people
- Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
- Pierre van Maldere, South Dutch composer
- Pierre Marchand, French publisher
- Pierre Menard, American fur trader and politician
- Pierre Morel, French film director
- Pierre Moullier, English actor
- Pierre Claver Nahimana, Burundian politician
- Pierre Novellie, South African-born comedian and writer
- Pierre Nkurunziza, former president of Burundi
- Pierre Papillaud, French billionaire businessman
- Pierre Pilote, ice hockey player
- Pierre Pincemaille, French musician
- Pierre Poilievre, Canadian member of Parliament, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first self-proclaimed anarchist and is regarded by some as the founder of modern anarchist theory
- Pierre-Loup Rajot, French actor and director
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist artist
- Pierre Reverdy, French poet
- Pierre Roger, French swimmer
- Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to US President John F. Kennedy
- Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director
- Pierre Schaeffer, French experimental musician
- Pierre Schapira, French mathematician
- Pierre Sergeol , French actor
- Pierre Shammassian, Lebanese-Armenian comedian
- Pierre Sinaÿ, French organic chemist
- Pierre Sokolsky, American physicist
- Pierre Sprey, French-American aircraft designer
- Pierre Strong Jr., American football player
- Pierre Taki, Japanese musician
- Pierre Tardi, French scientist
- Pierre Tendean revolution hero from Indonesia
- Pierre Thomas, several people
- Pierre Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister
- Pierre Turgeon, Québécois NHL Hall of Famer
- Pierre Vatin, French politician
- Pierre Vogel, German Islamist Preacher
- Pierre Warren, American football player
People with the surname
- Aaron Pierre, footballer
- Abbé Pierre, Henri Marie Joseph Grouès, French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement
- Carmine Pierre-Dufour, Canadian film director and screenwriter
- Christophe Pierre, Catholic prelate and diplomat
- DBC Pierre, Mexican writer
- Eliott Pierre, French para-cyclist
- Georges St-Pierre, Canadian MMA fighter and former UFC Welterweight champion
- James Pierre, American football player
- Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre, French botanist
- John Wallace Pierre, American engineer
- Juan Pierre, American baseball player
- Percy A. Pierre, American electrical engineer and mathematician
- Perri Pierre, Haitian-American actor and film producer
- Raymond Pierre, American track and field athlete
- Robert Pierre, Christian recording artist
- Roger Pierre, French actor
- Sydney Pierre, Mauritian politician
Aliases
- Pierre Carl Ouellet, former ring name of Canadian wrestler Carl Ouellet
- Pierre Poutine, an alias used in an attempt to hide certain parties involved in the 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal
Fictional characters
- Pierre, a Chrono Cross playable character
- Pierre, a character in JumpStart
- Pierre, in the 2016 film A Wedding
- Pierre, a non-playable Mii opponent in the Wii series
- Pierre Bezukhov, a central character in the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Pierre Escargot, a French teacher from the TV show All That, played by Kenan Thompson
- Pierre Belmondo, a Wipeout character responsible for the birth of anti-gravity racing
- Dominique Pierre, in the Netflix series Grand Army
- Pierrot, pantomime and commedia dell'arte character
- Pierre, the bird of France Hetalia