Faure
For Faure Island, see Faure Island.
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
- Camille Alphonse Faure, lead battery pioneer
- Edgar Faure, French politician
- Élie Faure, French art historian and essayist
- Félix Faure, 19th-century French president
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), French composer
- Gunter Faure, geochemist
- Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier
- Jacques Faure (ambassador), French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
- Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of the French military mission to Japan (1918–19)
- Jean-Baptiste Faure, French baritone and composer
- Keith Faure, Australian career criminal
- Luigi Faure (1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper
- 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
- Sébastien Faure (footballer), French footballer
- Trevor Faure, Australian Actor,
- Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo
Places
See also
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