Gaudin

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Gaudin is a French family name.

Notable members include:

  • Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin, duc de Gaete (1756-1841) (Napoleon I Bonaparte's Minister of Finances (November 1799 - March 1814, including the Cent Jours))
  • Marc-Antoine-Auguste Gaudin, a French chemistry researcher, who left numerous publications and invented an air vacuum pump
  • a Swiss botanist, who gave his name to the gaudinia genus of annual grass belonging to the aveneaea
  • Chad Gaudin, baseball player