List of Famous people named Henri
Henri Bentégeat
Henri Bentégeat is a French Army general who served first as the Chief of the French Defence Staff between 2002 and 2006 and then as the chairman of the European Union Military Committee between 2006 and 2009.
Henri Farman
Henri Farman was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Before dedicating himself to aviation he gained fame as a sportsman, specifically in cycling and motor racing. Henri took French nationality in 1937.
Henri Troyat
Henri Troyat was a Russian-born French author, biographer, historian and novelist.
Henri Génès
Henri Génès was a French singer and actor who appeared in such films as The Sucker, La Grande Vadrouille, The Brain, The Counterfeit Constable, and The Little Bather. He was born in Tarbes, and died, aged 86, in Saint-Cloud.
Henri Tincq
Henri Tincq was a French journalist and Vatican expert.
Henri Krasucki
Henri Krasucki was a French trade-unionist, former secretary general of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) from 1982 to 1992.
Henri de Turenne
Henri de Turenne is a French journalist and screenwriter. He was born in Tours. The son of Armand de Turenne, a World War I flying ace, he was raised in Germany and French Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work. After the Second World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir, and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres. Since the mid-1960s, he worked primarily in television, notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé, making over a hundred documentaries. He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War. His fictional works include Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), made for Arte, for which he shared a 7 d'Or with Michel Deutsch.
Henri Lafont
Henri Lafont was a French criminal based in Paris who headed the French Gestapo during the Nazi German occupation in World War II.
Henri Attal
Henri Attal was a French actor.
Henri Cornet
Henri Cornet was a French cyclist who won the 1904 Tour de France. He is its youngest winner, just short of his 20th birthday.