Annecy is the largest city of Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, 35 kilometers (22 mi) south of Geneva.
Eric Guy Chouinard is an American-born Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota Wild.
Pape Bouba Diop is a Senegalese former professional footballer.
Nassim Akrour is an Algerian footballer and coach who currently plays for Chambéry and coaches the youth team at Annecy, whom he represented as a player between 2016 and 2019. At international level, he has represented Algeria, earning 18 caps and scoring six goals between 2001 and 2004.
Lucien Lessard Jr., known as Junior Lessard, is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who last played for the Thetford Mines Isothermic of the LNAH.
Thonon Évian Grand Genève Football Club, formerly Thonon Évian F.C and Évian Thonon Gaillard Football Club, commonly referred to as Evian TG or simply Evian, is a French association football club based in Thonon-les-Bains that was founded on 1 July 2007.
Michel Ocelot is a French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year. In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb.
Cédric Barbosa is a French professional football player, who plays for Annecy.
Papa Malick Ba is a retired Senegalese international footballer who is currently contracted with CS Sfaxien as director of football. He can play as a central defender or as a defensive midfielder but is preferred in the latter role due to his lack of ability in the air.
Emiliano Ramiro Papa is an Argentine football left back or left winger who plays for Arsenal de Sarandí in the Argentine Primera División.
Three cities applied with bids to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in October 2009. The International Olympic Committee, under the leadership of Jacques Rogge, received three bids on October 15, 2009. The cities of Annecy, France, in the French Alps, Munich, Germany, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, a two-time previous bidder, competed for the hosting rights to the event. This was the lowest number of bidding cities since the 1988 Summer Olympics, coincidentally also won by South Korea. The winning bid was announced on July 6, 2011, at the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa by IOC President Jacques Rogge at 5.22 pm local time Pyeongchang beat Munich and Annecy in the first round of votes with 63 of the 95 total votes.
FFHG Division 2 is an amateur ice hockey league in France. It is the third of four levels of national ice hockey in France. The teams that end at the bottom of the table get relegated to FFHG Division 3 while the top get promoted to FFHG Division 1.
Annecy Football Club is a French amateur football club based in the town of Annecy in Haute-Savoie. The team plays its home matches at the Parc des Sports, where the club and its predecessor have been based since 1964. For the 2017–18 season, Annecy competed in the Championnat National 2, the fourth tier of French football.
André Grillon was a French footballer and football manager. He was capped 15 times for France.
Dorian Lévêque is a French footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 2 club Le Mans.
Fabrice Lhenry is a French former professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently the head coach of Dragons de Rouen of the Ligue Magnus.
The Hockey collégial féminin RSEQ is an amateur women's ice hockey league in Quebec, Canada. The former name of the League was Ligue de hockey féminin collégial AA. In autumn 2011, the names of different Leagues by letters AA and A within the Quebec Student Sports Federation are changed ·. The Hockey collégial féminin RSEQ is considered to be the highest level of young women's ice hockey in the Quebec collegiate system. The league has a wide range of talent from pre-university programs and is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and the Quebec Student Sports Federation.
Annecy 2018 was an unsuccessful bid by Annecy, France for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
La Luna is a 2011 Pixar computer-animated short film, directed and written by Enrico Casarosa. The short premiered on June 6, 2011 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, and it was paired with Pixar's Brave for its theatrical release on June 22, 2012, being shown before the film's beginning. La Luna was released on November 13, 2012, on the Brave DVD and Blu-ray, and on a new Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 2, the second collection of Pixar's short films. La Luna was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards.
Mathieu Mille is a French former professional ice hockey defenceman.
