Élie
Élie is the French equivalent of "Elias" or "Elijah."[1]
French masculine given name
- Élie Aboud (1959) Lebanese-French politician
- Élie Barnavi (born 1946) Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002.
- Élie Baup (1955) French football player and now manager
- Élie Bayol (1914-1995) French racing driver
- Élie Benoist (1640-1728) French Protestant minister and historian of the Edict of Nantes
- Élie Berthet (1815-1891) French novelist
- Élie Bertrand (1713–1797) Swiss French geologist
- Élie Bloncourt (1896-1978) Guadeloupe-born French politician of the 1930s.
- Élie Bouhéreau (1643-1719) French Huguenot refugee in Ireland and the first librarian of Marsh's Library
- Élie Brousse (1921) French rugby league player
- Élie Cartan (1869-1951) French mathematician
- Élie Castor (1943-1996) French Guiana politician
- Élie Chouraqui (1950) French film director
- Élie Diodati (1576–1661) Swiss French jurist
- Élie Dohin (1983) French football midfielder
- Élie Domota (1963) trade union leader from Guadeloupe
- Élie Ducommun (d.1906) was winner of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
- Élie, duc Decazes (1780-1860)
- Élie Dupuis (1994) Canadian actor
- Élie Doté (1947) Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from June 2005 to January 2008
- Élie Ehua (1992) French footballer
- Élie Faure (1873-1937) French art historian
- Élie Frédéric Forey (1804-1872) Marshal of France
- Élie Catherine Fréron (1719-1776) French (male) writer and controversialist
- Élie Fruchart (1922) French football player
- Élie Halévy (1870-1937) French historian
- Élie Halévy (Chalfan) (1760-1826) French Hebrew poet and author
- Élie Hoarau (1938) Réunion politician
- Élie Kakou (1960–1999) French comic actor
- Élie Kroupi (1979) French-Ivorian football player
- Élie Lacerte (1821-1898) Quebec physician and political figure
- Élie Lacoste (1745-1806) French politician during the French Revolution
- Élie Lellouche (1952) French horse trainer
- Élie Lescot (1883-1974) President of Haiti from 1941
- Élie Mailloux (1830-1893) Quebec political figure
- Élie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) Russian biologist, known by French name
- Élie Reclus (1827–1904) French anarchist and ethnographer
- Élie de Rothschild (1917-2007) French banker
- Élie Saint-Hilaire (1839-1888) political figure in Quebec
- Élie Semoun (1963) French comedian
- Élie Vinet (1509–1587) French Renaissance humanist
- Élie Wollman (1917-2008) French geneticist
Double and middle names
- Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874) French geologist
- Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont (1732–1786) French Protestant
- Élie-Abel Carrière (1818-1896) French botanist
- Joseph Élie Cholette Canadian politician
- Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828-1891) French painter
- Jacques Derrida, born Jackie Élie Derrida (1930-2004) Sephardic French-Algerian philosopher
- Marguerite-Élie Guadet (1758-1794) French (male) political figure of the Revolutionary period
- Nil-Élie Larivière (1899-1969) Quebec politician
- Marie Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet (1858-1937) 19th Prince de Chimay, French fencer at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819) Martinique creole colonist
- Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau (1822-1878) Quebec businessman and political figure
- François-Élie Vincent (1708-1790) Swiss painter of portrait miniatures.
Variant spellings
Hélie and Hélias, also Élias:
- Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (1301-1364) also Élie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Bishop of Auxerre
- Hélias de Saint-Yrieix (died 1367) French Benedictine abbot, bishop and cardinal.
- Hélie de Bourdeilles (ca. 1423-1484) French Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and cardinal.
Surname
- Antonio Élie (1893-1968) Canadian politician
- Romain Élie (1985) French football defender
- Louis-Pierre Hélie (1986) Canadian skier
Geographical names
- Saint-Élie a commune of French Guiana
- Rock Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville, borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec
- Mont-Élie, Quebec, unorganized territory in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec
- Saint-Élie-de-Caxton municipality in the Mauricie region of the province
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References
- The Complete Baby Name Book 1989 Page 92 "It was revived in the seventeenth century by the Puritans, and it's still used, especially by religious Protestant families. Famous name: Elie Wiesel (novelist) Variations: Elia (Italian), Elias (English), Élie (French), ..."
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