Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx is a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer who is the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling. His victories include an unequalled eleven Grand Tours, all five Monuments, setting the hour record, three World Championships, every major one-day race other than Paris–Tours, and extensive victories on the track.
Capron is a French and English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Vélodrome de Vincennes is a cycling stadium in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris.
Brian Capron is an English actor who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
"Gimme Hope Jo'anna" is a British anti-apartheid song written and originally released by Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eddy Grant in 1988, during the apartheid era in South Africa. The song was banned by the South African government when it was released, but was widely played there nonetheless. It reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Grant's first British top 10 hit for five years.
Jean-Pierre Rene Capron was a French painter known for creating muted landscapes with a haunting, lonely feeling, yet with a hint of life in the midst of the emptiness.
Eddy Viator is a footballer who plays as a defender for Guadeloupe club Red Star Baie-Mahault.
Events from the year 1997 in France.
Mortimer Common, generally referred to as Mortimer, is a village in the civil parish of Stratfield Mortimer in Berkshire. Mortimer is in the local government district of West Berkshire and is seven miles south-west of Reading.
Ralph Earl Capron was an American baseball and football player. He played Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1912 and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1913. He also played football in 1920 for the Chicago Tigers of the American Professional Football Association.
Captain Allyn K. Capron was the first United States Army officer to die in the Spanish–American War.
George H. Capron was an American football and baseball player.
Robert B. Capron Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's best friend, in the first three installments of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series. More recently, Capron is known for starring as Mason in the drama series Elementary, and as David Lewan in the film The Polka King.
Vhakka Eddy Stelh Gnahoré is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie B club Ascoli.
Eddy Etaeta is a football manager and former football player from Tahiti in French Polynesia. He is best known within Oceania for coaching Tahiti to their 2012 OFC Nations Cup title, and is known worldwide for coaching the team during their 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup campaign.
Marcel Capron was a French wrestler. He competed in the Greco-Roman featherweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
The 1888 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1888 college football season. In Indiana's second season of intercollegiate football, economics professor Arthur B. Woodford returned as the school's football coach. As in 1887, Indiana played only one game, that game ending in a 6–6 tie with the team from nearby DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. The players on the 1888 team included Joseph W. Murphy, John C. Capron, and J. F. Newsom.
André Capron was a French immunologist and parasitologist known for his work on schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
Nicolas Capron was a French classical violinist and composer.
Eddy Sylvestre Negadi is a French-Algerian professional footballer who plays as midfielder for Ligue 2 club Pau.