List of Famous people with last name Plateau

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.

Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau was a French Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Marius Plateau was a French engineer, WWI sergeant, and French Royalist militant. Plateau was an editor of Action Francaise and a former secretary general of the Camelots du Roi. In 1923, Plateau was assassinated by the French anarchist Germaine Berton, who was later acquitted.