40 Notable alumni of
University of Orleans
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The University of Orleans is 1315th in the world, 449th in Europe, and 40th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 40 notable alumni from the University of Orleans sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Molière
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- theatre managerwriterstage actorsatiristplaywright
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".
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John Calvin
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- Christian ministerwriterlawyerpastorProtestant reformer
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John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.
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Charles Perrault
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- collector of fairy talescriticchildren's writerwriterpoet lawyer
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Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Tales from Past Times). The best known of his tales include "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Red Riding Hood"), "Cendrillon" ("Cinderella"), "Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté" ("Puss in Boots"), "La Belle au bois dormant" ("Sleeping Beauty"), and "Barbe Bleue" ("Bluebeard").
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Pierre de Fermat
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- judgelawyermathematician
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Pierre de Fermat was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. He was also a lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France.
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Étienne de La Boétie
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- writerpoetpoliticianFrench moralistjudge
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Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his intense and intimate friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
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Jean de La Bruyère
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- translatorlawyerwriterFrench moralistessayist
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Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
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Olivier Faure
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- politician
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Olivier Faure is a French politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018 and Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency since 2012. He was elected to the post of first secretary in the party's Aubervilliers Congress and re-elected in the 2021 Villeurbanne Congress. Faure was previously the head of the New Left group (French: Groupe Nouvelle Gauche), the parliamentary group formed around the PS in the National Assembly, from December 2016 to April 2018.
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Jacques Pierre Brissot
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- translatorlawyerdiplomatjournalistpolitician
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Jacques Pierre Brissot, also known as Brissot de Warville was a French journalist, abolitionist, and revolutionary leading the faction of Girondins (initially called Brissotins) at the National Convention in Paris. The Girondins favored exporting the revolution and opposed a concentration of power in Paris. He collaborated on the Mercure de France and the Courier de l'Europe, which sympathized with the insurgents in the American colonies.
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Jeannette Bougrab
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- politician
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Jeannette Bougrab is a French lawyer and politician of the UMP who served as the junior minister for Youth and Community Life in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 2010 to 2012. Prior to this, she was the Chair of the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission (HALDE) from 16 April 2010 to 14 November 2010.
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Ivo of Kermartin
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- presbyterjudgelawyer
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Ivo of Kermartin, TOSF, also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives (and in Breton as Erwan, Iwan, Youenn or Eozenn, depending on the region, and known as Yves Hélory (also Helori or Heloury) in French), was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. He is the patron of Brittany, lawyers, and abandoned children. His feast day is 19 May. Poetically, he is referred to as "advocate of the poor".
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Agrippa d'Aubigné
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- military personnelpoetwriterpolitician
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Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, English poet Keith Bosley has called d'Aubigné, "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death, he, "was forgotten until the Romantics rediscovered him."
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Thomas Boni Yayi
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- bankerpoliticianeconomist
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Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese banker and politician who was the president of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second term in March 2011. He also served as the chairperson of the African Union from 29 January 2012 to 27 January 2013.
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Johann Reuchlin
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- university teachertranslatorwriterjuristphilosopher
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Johann Reuchlin, sometimes called Johannes, was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France. Most of Reuchlin's career centered on advancing German knowledge of Greek and Hebrew.
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Guillaume Budé
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- printertranslatorclassical scholarnumismatistphilosopher
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Guillaume Budé was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France.
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Isabelle Attard
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- archaeologistpoliticianresearch fellow
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Isabelle Robert Attard is a French archaeologist and politician, best known for her work in archaeozoology, specialising in the Bearded vulture during the Last Glacial Period. She has served as the museum director for the Bayeux Tapestry Museum from 2005 to 2010, and then the Utah Beach D-Day Museum from 2010 to 2012. As a politician, she has served as deputy for Calvados's 5th constituency, and was a member of the Europe Ecology – The Greens party until 2013, after which she was co-president of the New Deal party until 2015. Since 2015, she self-identifies as an anarchist.
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Felwine Sarr
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- writeruniversity teacherlibrettistmusicianeconomist
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Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese academic, musician and writer of novels and cultural essays, born in Sine Saloum, Niodior Arrondissement. He studied economics and taught this subject at the Gaston Berger University (Senegal) until his move in 2020 as Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University in the United States.
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Jean-Pierre Sueur
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- politician
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Jean-Pierre Sueur is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2001, representing the Loiret department.
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Jerzy Ossoliński
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- politiciandiplomat
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Prince Jerzy Ossoliński h. Topór was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor (voivode) of Sandomierz from 1636, Reichsfürst (Imperial Prince) since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, sheriff (starost) of Bydgoszcz (1633), Lubomel (1639), Puck and Bolim (1647), magnate, politician and diplomat. Famous for being extensively educated, he was a skillful politician and a persuasive public speaker.
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Krzysztof Opaliński
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- diplomatpoliticianpoet
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Krzysztof Opaliński was a Polish szlachta (nobleman), politician, writer, satirist, and Voivode (Governor) of Poznań. A notable figure during the Swedish Deluge, Opaliński was a skilled diplomat who opposed King John II Casimir and published many of his works concerning the daily political or social matters in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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François Bourguignon
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- economistresearcher
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François Bourguignon is the former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics, and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. in 2016 Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize. He focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality, economy-wide country studies (Brazil, China, India…), international trade and trade policy, education, wealth, income, redistribution, and tax policy.
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François Bonneau
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- pensionerpolitician
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François Bonneau is a French educationalist, politician, and incumbent President of the Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
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Hussein Hajj Hassan
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- politician
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Hussein Hajj Hassan is a Lebanese politician and minister of industry.
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Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar
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- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
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Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar is a Mauritanian politician who was Prime Minister of Mauritania, twice, from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2005 to 2007.
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Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
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- children's writerlibrettistplaywrightwriterpolitician
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Jean-Nicolas Bouilly was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for writing a libretto, supposedly based on a true story, about a woman who disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband from prison, which formed the basis of Beethoven's opera Fidelio as well as a number of other operas.
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Léonard Bourdon
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- administratorlawyerpoliticianpedagogueheadmaster in France
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Louis Jean Joseph Léonard Bourdon de la Cronière was a French politician of the French Revolution. He was president of the National Constituent Assembly and substitute for the procureur of the Commune de Paris.
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Mariama Signaté
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- handball playersportsperson
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Mariama Camara Signaté is a French handball player. Her playing position is left back.
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Łukasz Opaliński
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- writerpoet
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Łukasz de Bnin Opaliński was a Polish nobleman, poet, political activist and one of the most important Polish political writers of the 17th century.
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Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein
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- politician
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Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein, nicknamed "the Elder", formally "Louis I of Sayn, Count at Wittgenstein" ruled the County of Wittgenstein, on the upper reaches of the rivers Lahn and Eder, from 1558 until his death. He converted his county to Calvinism and was an influential politician in the service to the Electoral Palatinate.
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Stanisław Lanckoroński
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- 1590-1657 (aged 67)
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Stanisław Lanckoroński was a Polish–Lithuanian magnate as well as a politician and military commander.
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Daniel Delaveau
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- politicianjournalist
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Daniel Delaveau is a French politician and former Mayor of Rennes. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
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Sylvie Baïpo-Temon
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- 20th Century
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- diplomatpoliticiancivil servant
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Sylvie Baïpo-Temon is a Central African politician who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic since 14 December 2018. She replaced Charles-Armel Doubane, who is regarded as being too pro-Western, as President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has recently made an effort to increase ties to Russia. She formerly worked as a financial analyst at BNP Paribas since 2003 and has no previous diplomatic experience. In July 2022, Sylvie Baïpo-Temon was ordered by the French tax authorities to pay unpaid taxes in the amount of €18,000.
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Pieter Pauw
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- anatomistuniversity teacherbotanist
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Pieter Pauw, (2 August 1564 – 1 August 1617) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He was a student of Hieronymus Fabricius. He was the first Anatomy Professor at University of Leiden.
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Lambert Daneau
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- theologianuniversity teacherjurist
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Lambert Daneau was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian.
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Norbert-Bertrand Barbe
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- mythographerpainterliterary criticart historianphilosopher
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Norbert-Bertrand Barbe is a French art historian, semiologist, artist and writer. He was born in 1968 and has a master's degree in art history and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Université d'Orléans, 1996). He is an Honorary Member of the Nicaraguan Academy of Language.
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Jørgen Bjelke
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- judge
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Jørgen Bjelke was a Norwegian officer and nobleman. He was born at Elingaard Manor on Onsøy near Fredrikstad, in Østfold County, Norway and died in Kalundborg, Denmark.
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Nicolaus Henel von Hennenfeld
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- writerhistorian
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Nicholas Henel was a Silesian historian, receiver, biographer and a chronicler. He's considered to be the most outstanding representative of Renaissance's historiography of Silesia.
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Henric Piccardt
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- 1636-1712 (aged 76)
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- lawyer
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Henric Piccardt was an ambitious Dutch lawyer who made good at the court of young king Louis XIV of France in Paris where he became a published poet in French. Returning to the Netherlands, he rose to become syndic of the Ommelanden of Groningen and the untitled lord of the majestic manor at Slochteren, the Fraeylemaborg.
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Jean Willybiro-Sako
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- politicianmagistrate
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Jean Willybiro-Sako is a politician in the Central African Republic. He was the Minister of State for Higher Education and Scientific Research from April 2011 to January 2013.
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Hans Rosing
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- priest
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Hans Rosing was a Norwegian clergyman. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Oslo from 1664 until 1699.
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Henry de Lichton
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- priestdiplomat
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Henry de Lichton [de Lychtone, Leighton] was a medieval Scottish prelate and diplomat, who, serving as Bishop of Moray (1414–1422) and Bishop of Aberdeen (1422–1440), became a significant patron of the church, a cathedral builder, and a writer. He also served King James I of Scotland as a diplomat in England, France, and Italy.
