List of Famous people named Auguste

Similar names: August, Augusta, Augusto. Here are some famous Augustes:

Auguste Rodin

René François Auguste Rodin
First Name Auguste
Born on November 12, 1840
Died on November 17, 1917 (aged 77)

François Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell.

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Auguste Escoffier

Georges Auguste Escoffier
First Name Auguste
Born on October 28, 1846
Died on February 12, 1935 (aged 88)

Georges Auguste Escoffier was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Marie-Antoine Carême, one of the codifiers of French haute cuisine; Escoffier's achievement was to simplify and modernize Carême's elaborate and ornate style. In particular, he codified the recipes for the five mother sauces. Referred to by the French press as roi des cuisiniers et cuisinier des rois, Escoffier was a preeminent figure in London and Paris during the 1890s and the early part of the 20th century.

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Auguste Comte

Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
First Name Auguste
Born on January 19, 1798
Died on September 5, 1857 (aged 59)
Born in France, Occitania

Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology; indeed, he invented the term and treated that discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.

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Auguste Deter

First Name Auguste
Born on May 16, 1850
Died on April 8, 1906 (aged 55)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Auguste Deter was a German woman notable for being the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

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Auguste Corteau

Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος
First Name Auguste
Born on November 30, 1978 (age 45)

Auguste Corteau is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos. He was born in Thessaloniki, in 1979.

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Auguste Piccard

Auguste Antoine Piccard
First Name Auguste
Born on January 28, 1884
Died on March 24, 1962 (aged 78)

Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Auguste was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.

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Auguste Maquet

First Name Auguste
Born on September 13, 1813
Died on January 8, 1888 (aged 74)

Auguste Maquet was a French author, best known as the chief collaborator of French novelist Alexandre Dumas, père, co-writing such works as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

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Auguste de Marmont

First Name Auguste
Born on July 20, 1774
Died on March 22, 1852 (aged 77)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title Duke of Ragusa. In the Peninsular War Marmont succeeded the disgraced André Masséna in the command of the French army in northern Spain, but lost decisively at the Battle of Salamanca.

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Auguste Lumière

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière
First Name Auguste
Born on October 19, 1862
Died on April 10, 1954 (aged 91)

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière was a French engineer, industrialist, biologist, and illusionist. During 1894–1895, he and his brother Louis invented an animated photographic camera and projection device, the cinematograph, which met with worldwide success.

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Auguste Magdalene of Hessen-Darmstadt

First Name Auguste
Born on March 6, 1657
Died on September 1, 1674 (aged 17)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Auguste Magdalene of Hesse-Darmstadt was a German noblewoman and poet.

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