Blaise (name)

Blaise is a French and English personal name and surname either derived from the Greek Basil (Βασίλειος) or Βλάσιος, the name of Saint Blaise, an adaptation of the "Vlash" etymon. Its feast day is on the 3rd of February.

List of people with the given name Blaise

• Baboucarr-Blaise Jagne, Gambian foreign minister and United Nations representative
• Blaise Alexander, American race car driver
• Blaise Cendrars, Franco-Swiss novelist and poet
• Blaise Compaoré, President of Burkina Faso
• Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician, mayor of Dakar
• Blaise Diesbourg, American gangster and bootlegger
• Blaise Garza, American actor
• Blaise Gisbert, French Jesuit rhetorician and critic
• Blaise Koissy, Côte d'Ivoire football player
• Blaise Kouassi (footballer, born 1974), former Côte d'Ivoire football defender
• Blaise Kouassi (footballer, born 1983), Ivorian footballer
• Blaise Kufo, Congolese-Swiss football player
• Blaise Matuidi, French football player
• Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
• Blaise de Montluc, French soldier
• Blaise Rabetafika, Malagasy diplomat
• Blaise Sonnery, French cyclist
• Blaise Daniel Staples, American classicist
• Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer
• Blaise Winter, American football player and speaker
• Mamadou Blaise Sangaré, Malian politician
• Jean-Blaise Martin, French opera singer

Fictional people

• Blaise, in some accounts, a master of Merlin in Arthurian legends. In Malory's version appears to Merlin to warn him of Nimue's mischief
• Blaise Jeannot Andrieux, a character from the Wild Cards series of books
• Blaise Zabini, minor Slytherin character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

List of people with the surname Blaise

• Clark Blaise, Canadian author
• Kerlin Blaise, American football player
• Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier, French poet, dramatist, and politician
• Pierre Blaise, French actor
• Saint Blaise, Armenian physician and bishop of Sebaste (Sivas)
• Serge Moléon Blaise, Haitian painter
• Tara Blaise, Irish singer
• Jean-Blaise Kololo, Congolese politician and diplomat
• Matthew Blaise, Nigerian queer rights activist

Fictional people

• Modesty Blaise, heroine of a Peter O'Donnell comic strip

Spellings

The following forenames are related to the forename Blaise:

• Armenian: Բարսեղ (Barsegh)
• Catalan: Blai
• Croatian: Blaž; Vlaho (Dubrovnik region)
• English: Blaise, Blase, Blaize, Blaze
• French: Blaise
• Galician: Βrais
• German: Blasius
• Greek: Βλασιος (Vlasios)
• Hungarian: Balázs
• Italian: Biagio
• Kurdish: بله‌یز
• Latin: Blasius
• Polish: Błażej
• Portuguese: Brás (archaic spelling Braz)
• Romanian: Vlasie, Vasile
• Russian: Власий (Vlasiy)
• Spanish: Blas
• Turkish: Vlas
• Ukrainian: Улас (Ulas)

See also

• Blaise (disambiguation)
• Blaize (given name)
• Blaize (surname)
• Blais