Marie-José Pérec is a retired French track and field sprinter who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres and is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.
Tinia was the sky god and the highest deity in Etruscan religion, equivalent to the Roman Jupiter and the Greek Zeus.
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1864–1872).
Edward Paul Sheringham is an English football manager and former player. He played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career. Sheringham was part of the Manchester United team that won the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 1999. He scored the equalising goal and provided the assist for the club's winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League final against Bayern Munich that sealed it, with both goals coming in injury time of the second half.
The Encyclopédistes were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writers' society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under the editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and only Diderot from 1765 to 1772.
Orsay is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, 20.7 km (12.9 mi) from the centre of Paris.
Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner is a French judoka. He has won eleven World Championships gold medals, the first and only judoka to do so, and three Olympic gold medals. He has also won five gold medals at the European Championships. He was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club before joining Paris Saint-Germain in August 2017.
Events from the year 1950 in France.
Teddy Tamgho is a French triple jumper and long jumper. He specialises in the triple jump. He is the former triple jump world indoor record holder, achieved in winning the final and gold medal at the 2011 European Indoor Championships. He is the world's sixth best ever triple jumper outdoors, with his best mark of 18.04 metres achieved in winning the final and gold medal at the 2013 World Championships.
Christophe Lemaitre is a French sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event. Lemaitre has run a sub-10 second 100m on seven occasions: three times in 2010 and four times in 2011. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2012 London Olympic Games and in the 200 metres at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
Teddy Williams Jr is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Carolina Panthers. He did not play college football, but was an Olympic caliber world class four-time NCAA All American sprinter at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Gabriel François Venel was a French chemist, physician and a contributor to the Encyclopédie,.
Venel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
HSI an initialism for Hudson Smith International, is an elite track and field training group and team centered on former UCLA coach John Walton Smith and sports agent/attorney Emanuel Hudson. The group was formed in 1996 after the former 1972 Olympian had led Quincy Watts and Kevin Young to 1992 Olympic gold medals.
Jean-André Venel was a Swiss doctor and a pioneer in the field of orthopedics.
Brice Panel is a French sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres. He set his personal best time of 45.54 seconds by finishing second at the Resisprint meeting in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Aimé Venel is a French painter and drawer who focuses on figurative and symbolist style. He creates his own style of figurative arts elegance that primarily lies between symbolist painting and expressionism art, closely related to romanticism. He is a self-taught man whose artwork is influenced by women's beauty. Aimé Venel was a Scientologist for years, before withdrawing from the movement.
The 2017 French Athletics Championships was the 129th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for France. It was held on 14–16 July at the Pierre-Delort Stadium in Marseille. A total of 38 events were contested over the three-day competition.
Paul Célestin Marie Joseph Venel was a French army officer and colonial governor. He served as Commandant of the Military Territory of Zinder from 1908 to 1911, and Commissioner from 1913 to 1915. Venel was in command of the 11th Colonial Infantry Division, part of the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient, from August to November 1917, fighting in the Macedonian front.
The 2011 French Indoor Athletics Championships was the 40th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for France, organised by the French Athletics Federation. It was held on 19–20 February at the Jean-Pellez Stadium in Aubière. A total of 26 events were contested over the two-day competition.
