Étienne

For other uses, see Étienne (disambiguation).

Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne.

Étienne

Pronunciation	IPA: [etjɛn]
Gender	Male
Other names
Related names	Stephen/Steven

Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to:

People

Scientists and inventors

• Étienne Bézout (1730–1783), French mathematician
• Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810), French entomologist and pharmacist
• Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913), German professor of economics and statistics
• Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgian engineer who invented the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers
• Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) (1744–1832), French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle surveying instrument
• Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880), French entomologist and ornithologist
• Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal
• Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist
• Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757–1808), French botanist
• Étienne Wasserzug (1860–1888), French biologist

Intellectuals and academics

• Étienne Balazs (1905–1963), Hungarian-born French sinologist
• Étienne Balibar (born 1942), French Marxist philosopher and professor
• Étienne Baluze (1630–1718), French scholar also known as Stephanus Baluzius
• Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563), French intellectual and noted friend of Michel de Montaigne
• Étienne Cabet (1788–1856), French philosopher and utopian socialist
• Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780), French philosopher
• Étienne Dolet (1509–1546), French scholar, translator and printer
• Étienne Fourmont (1683–1745), French orientalist
• Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), French philosopher
• Étienne Hubert (Arabist) (1567–1614), French physician, Orientalist and diplomat, also known as Stephanus Hubertus
• Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983), Belgian priest, Indologist and authority on Buddhism
• Etienne Vermeersch (1934–2019), Belgian philosopher
• Etienne, a hero tower drone pilot in Bloons TD 6
• Étienne Weill-Raynal (1887–1982), French historian, resistant, journalist and Socialist politician.
• Étienne Wenger (born 1952), education theorist

Politicians, government officials and soldiers

• Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), French military officer, statesman and diplomat
• Étienne Bazeries (1846–1931), French military cryptanalyst
• Étienne Eustache Bruix (1759–1805), French Navy admiral
• Étienne Clavière (1735–1793), Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution
• Étienne Clémentel (1864–1936), French politician
• Étienne Compayré (1748–1817), French politician.
• Étienne Davignon (born 1932), Belgian politician, businessman and former vice-president of the European Commission
• Étienne Grandmont (born 1977), a Canadian politician in the province of Québec
• Étienne Jacques Macdonald (1765–1840), Marshal of the Empire
• Étienne Maurice Gérard, comte Gérard (1773–1852), French general and statesman
• Étienne Guy (1774–1820), surveyor and politician in Lower Canada
• Etienne van der Horst (born 1958), Curaçaoan politician
• Etyen Mahçupyan (born 1950), Turkish-Armenian journalist, writer and politician
• Étienne Manac'h (1910–1992), French diplomat and writer
• Étienne Marcel (died 1358), provost of the merchants of Paris under King John II
• Étienne Parent (1802–1874), Canadian journalist and government official
• Étienne Perier (governor) (1687–1766), French naval officer and colonial administrator
• Étienne Richaud (1841–1889), Governor of French India
• Etienne Saqr (born 1937), Lebanese founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party
• Étienne Tshisekedi (1932–2017), politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Étienne de Vignolles (1390–1443), called La Hire, a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War and a close comrade of Joan of Arc
• Etienne Ys (born 1962), twice Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
• Martine Etienne (born 1956), French politician
• Jean-Claude Étienne (1941–2017), French politician

Arts and entertainment

• Etienne Aigner (1904–2000), Hungarian-born German fashion designer
• Étienne Chatiliez (born 1952), French film director
• Étienne de Crécy (born 1969), French electronic music producer and DJ
• Étienne Daho (born 1956), French singer, songwriter and record producer
• Etienne Debel (1931–1993), Belgian actor and director
• Étienne Doirat (c. 1675–1732), French furniture designer.
• Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), French Rococo sculptor
• Etienne Girardot (1856–1939), Anglo-French actor
• Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532–1573), French dramatist and poet
• Étienne Loulié (1654–1702), French musician, pedagogue and musical theorist
• Étienne Méhul (1763–1817), French composer
• Étienne Moulinié (1599–1676), French Baroque composer
• Étienne Périer (director) (1931–2020), Belgian film director

Sports

• Étienne Bally (1923–2018), French sprinter
• Etienne Barbara (born 1982), Maltese footballer
• Étienne Boulay (born 1983), Canadian football player
• Étienne Capoue (born 1988), French footballer
• Étienne Dagon (born 1960), Swiss breaststroke swimmer
• Etienne Daguinos (born 2000), French runner
• Ettiene de Bruyn (born 1977), South African cricketer
• Étienne Desmarteau (1873–1905), Canadian winner of the 54 pound weight throw at the 1904 Olympics
• Étienne Didot (born 1983), French footballer
• Etienne Eto'o (born 1990), Cameroonian footballer
• Étienne Mattler (1905–1986), French footballer
• Etienne L. de Mestre (1832–1916), Australian racehorse trainer
• Etienne Oosthuizen (rugby union, born 1992), South African rugby union player
• Etienne Oosthuizen (rugby union, born 1994), South African rugby union player
• Ettienne Richardson (born 1981), Grenadian footballer
• Ettiene Smit (born 1974), South African strongman competitor
• Etienne Stott (born 1979), English slalom canoeist

Other

• Etienne, pen name of gay male erotica artist Dom Orejudos (1933–1991), who established many landmarks of late-20th-century gay male culture
• Étienne Bacrot (born 1983), French chess player, formerly the youngest person ever to have earned the Grandmaster title
• Étienne Brûlé (c. 1592–c. 1643), French explorer in what is now Canada
• Étienne Gaboury (1930–2022), Canadian architect
• Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615), French lawyer and man of letters
• Étienne Pernet (1824–1899), French Roman Catholic priest, founder of Little Sisters of the Assumption Order
• Étienne Provost (1785–1850), French-Canadian fur trader
• Étienne Tempier (died 1279), also known as Stephanus of Orleans, French bishop of Paris and Chancellor of the Sorbonne

Fictional characters

• Étienne of Navarre, a main character in Ladyhawke, a 1985 historical-fantasy, played by Rutger Hauer
• Ettienne R. LaFitte, "real" name of Gung-Ho (G.I. Joe)
• Étienne Lantier, protagonist of Émile Zola's novel Germinal
• Etienne LeBlanc, a main character in the novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Étienne St. Clair, a main character in the novel Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

See also

• Saint Etienne (disambiguation)
• Jean-Étienne
• Stéphane