Achille

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People

Artists

• Achille Beltrame (1871–1945), Italian painter
• Achille Calici (c. 1565–?), Italian painter
• Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002), Italian designer
• Achille Cattaneo (1872–1931), Italian painter
• Achille Devéria (1800–1857), French painter and lithographer
• Achille Duchêne (1866–1947), French garden designer
• Achille Empéraire (1829–1898), French painter
• Achille Formis (1832–1906), Italian painter
• Achille Funi (1890–1972), Italian painter
• Achille Glisenti (1848–1906), Italian painter
• Achille Granchi-Taylor (1857–1921), French painter and illustrator
• Achille Lega (1899–1934), Italian painter
• Achille Leonardi (c. 1800–1870), Italian painter
• Achille Locatelli (painter) (1864–1948), Italian painter
• Achille Mauzan (1883–1952), French illustrator, painter and sculptor
• Achille Etna Michallon (1796–1822), French painter
• Achille Mollica (1832–1885), Italian painter
• Achille Peretti (artist) (1857–1923), Italian painter, sculptor and anarchist
• Achille Petrocelli (1861/62–1896), Italian painter
• Achille Pinelli (1809–1841), Italian painter
• Achille Solari (1835–1884), Italian painter
• Achille Valois (1785–1862), French designer and sculptor
• Achille Vertunni (1826–1897), Italian painter
• Achille Vianelli (1803–1894), Italian painter
• Achille Zo (1826–1901), French painter

Musicians, composers and singers

• Achille Baquet (1885–1955/1956), American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
• Achille De Bassini (1819–1881), Italian baritone
• Achille Campisiano (1837–1908), French pianist and composer
• Achille Rivarde (1865–1940), American-born British violinist and teacher
• Achille Simonetti (1857–1928), Italian violinist and composer
• Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French impressionistic composer and pianist

Politicians

• Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1781–1864), French politician
• Achille Casanova (1941–2016), Swiss journalist and politician
• Achille Corona (1914–1979), Italian socialist politician, lawyer and journalist
• Achille Joseph Delamare (1790–1873), French senator
• Achille Larue (1849–1922), Canadian lawyer and politician
• Achille Mapelli (1840-1894), Italian politician and journalist
• Achille Occhetto (born 1936), Italian politician
• Achille Peretti (1911–1983), French politician
• Achille Serra (politician) (born 1941), Italian politician
• Achille Starace (1889–1945), Italian fascist leader before and during World War II

Religious figures

• Achille Grassi (1456–1523), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
• Achille Gagliardi (1537–1607), Italian ascetic writer and Jesuit
• Achille Glorieux (1910–1999), French Catholic prelate, archbishop and diplomat
• Achille Harlay de Sancy (1581–1646), French diplomat, linguist, orientalist and Catholic bishop
• Achille Liénart (1884–1973), French Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop
• Achille Ratti (1857–1939), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal, later Pius XI
• Achille d'Étampes de Valençay (1593–1646), French military leader, a Knight of Malta and Catholic cardinal

Scientists and mathematicians

• Achille Allier (1807–1836), French archaeologist, writer and art critic
• Achille Costa (1823–1899), Italian entomologist
• Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse (1817–1881), French geologist and mineralogist
• Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour (1734–1794), French astronomer and mathematician
• Achille Marie Gaston Floquet (1847–1920), French mathematician
• Achille Gerste (1854–1920), Belgian Catholic priest, Jesuit, philologist and linguist
• Achille Guenée (1809–1880), French entomologist and lawyer
• Achille Loria (1857–1943), Italian Jewish political economist and sociologist
• A. E. Meeussen (1912–1978), Belgian philologist
• Achille Müntz (1846–1917), French agricultural chemist
• Achille Ouy (1889–1959), French philosopher and sociologist
• Achille Urbain (1884–1957), French biologist
• Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865), French zoologist

Sportsmen

• Achille Anani (born 1994), Ivorian footballer playing in France
• Achille Campion (born 1990), French footballer
• Achille Compagnoni (1914–2009), Italian mountaineer and skier
• Achille Coser (born 1982), Italian football goalkeeper
• Achille Emaná (born 1982), Cameroonian footballer
• Achille Fould (bobsleigh) (1919–1949), French bobsledder
• Achille Varzi (1904–1948), Italian Grand Prix race car driver

Other

• Achille Ballière (1840–1905), French architect
• Achille Boitel (died 1944), French businessman and Nazi collaborator
• Achille Jubinal (1810–1875), French medievalist
• Achille Leclère (1785–1853), French architect and teacher of architecture
• Achille Majeroni (1881–1964), Italian film actor
• Achille Maramotti (1927–2005), Italian fashion designer and founder of Max Mara, an Italian fashion company
• Achille Marozzo (1484–1553), Italian fencing master
• Achille Mbembe (born 1957), Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist
• Achille Millien (1838–1927), French poet and folklorist
• Achille Millo, stage name of Italian actor, voice actor and stage director Achille Scognamillo (1922–2006)
• Prince Achille Murat (1801–1847), eldest son of Joachim Murat
• Achille St. Onge (1913–1978), American publisher of miniature books
• Achille Zavatta (1915–1993), French clown, artist and circus operator

Fictional characters

• Achille Poirot, the "brother" of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot (actually Hercule in disguise) in the novel The Big Four
• the title character of Achille Talon, a comic book series
• the title character of Achille in Sciro, a 1737 opera
• Rodrigue Achille Fraldarius, a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses

See also

• Achilles (disambiguation)