Blaise (name)

Blaise is a French and English personal name and surname (from Greek Βλάσιος, the name of Saint Blaise).

The meaning of Greek Blasios is unclear; it may have been a by-name of the saint, derived from Latin blaesus "lisp", thus "the lisper"; alternatively, it may just be a corruption of the name Basilius (Greek Βασίλειος basíleios "royal; kingly").

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 Curci, French crime lord in The French Connection
• Blaise Zabini, minor Slytherin character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
• Blaise Dafoe, a big man with an even bigger heart that passed far too young

List of people with the surname Blaise

• Clark Blaise, Canadian author
• Fabolon Blaise, Haitian painter
• 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)
• Saint-Louis Blaise, Haitian painter
• Serge Moléon Blaise, Haitian painter
• Tara Blaise, Irish singer
• Jean-Blaise Kololo, Congolese politician and diplomat

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
• Russian: Власий (Vlasiy)
• Spanish: Blas
• Turkish: Vlas
• Ukrainian: Улас (Ulas)

See also

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