List of Famous people with last name Lacoste
Vincent Lacoste
Vincent Lacoste is a French actor. He began his acting career at the age of fifteen, playing the lead role of Hervé in the film The French Kissers. The role won him the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor and a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2010.
Jean-Pascal Lacoste
Jean-Pascal Lacoste is a French singer, actor and TV host.
Pierre Lacoste
Pierre Lacoste was a French marine officer and government official. He served as President of the Fédération des professionnels de l'intelligence économique in 2006.
René Lacoste
Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929.
Jean-Noël de Bouillane de Lacoste
Jean-Noël de Bouillane de Lacoste was a French ambassador and diplomat.
Alexandre Lacoste
Sir Alexandre Lacoste, was a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician.
Yves Lacoste
Yves Lacoste is a French geographer and geopolitician. He was born in Fes, Morocco. In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal Hérodote and published a work that shook the French academy, La Géographie ça sert d'abord à faire la guerre; its central thesis was that "geography was a form of strategic and political knowledge, central to the military strategy and the exercise of political power". Lacoste had earlier earned international renown in 1972 during the Vietnam War by publishing a spatial forensics analysis of the US bombing campaign of the Red River Delta. He agreed with claims from the North Vietnamese government that the US was deliberately targeting the hydrological infrastructure of the river in an attempt to trigger flooding and cause mass civilian casualties, which it called a war crime.
Catherine Lacoste
Catherine Lacoste is a French amateur golfer and the only player who has won the U.S. Women's Open as an amateur.
Amélie Lacoste
Amélie Lacoste is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Skate Canada International bronze medallist and the 2012 Canadian national champion. Her highest placement at an ISU Championship was 7th at the 2010 and 2012 Four Continents Championships.
Carlos Lacoste
Carlos Alberto Lacoste was an Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician who briefly served as interim President of Argentina.