Carpentier

Carpentier is a surname from the old French Charpentier and is similar to the English Carpenter.

Origin: [900-1000] Charpentier - Old French < Late Latin; carpentarius artifex or wainwright, equivalent to Latin carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2.^[1] Carpentier was a surname in France at least as early as 1549, when Marin Carpentier of Brix, France was mentioned in Gilles, Sire de Gouberville's journal of country life in Normandy.^[2]

• A Y-DNA Project exists for this surname.

Carpentier may refer to:

Real people

• Alain Carpentier (born 1933) French heart surgeon
• Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) Cuban writer and musicologist
• Édouard Carpentier (born 1926) French professional wrestler
• Georges Carpentier (1894–1975) French boxer
• Horace Carpentier (1824–1918) lawyer and first mayor of Oakland, CA
• Jules Carpentier (1851–1921) French engineer and inventor
• Marcel Carpentier (1895–1977) French military officer
• Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier (1886–1965) French painter and sculptor
• Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier (Maritie 1922–2002, Gilbert 1920–2000), married French TV producers
• Nancy Carpentier Brown (born 1961) author and blogger
• Patrick Carpentier (born 1971) Canadian race car driver
• Pieter de Carpentier (c. 1586–1659) Dutch or Flemish administrator of the Dutch East India Company
• Prudent Carpentier (born 1922) Canadian politician

Fictional characters

• Allen Carpentier, protagonist in Niven & Pournelle's Inferno (novel)

See also

• All pages beginning with "Carpentier"
• All pages with titles containing "Carpentier"

References