Frequent persons on New-caledonia's street signs

Frédéric Chopin

3 Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era,...

Victor Hugo

3 Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo, sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of...

Jacques Iekawé

2 Jacques Iénéic Iekawé est un haut fonctionnaire français. Promoteur de la culture et de l'identité kanakes, il milite, comme son père avant lui, à l'Union calédonienne, parti autonomiste puis...

Roger Gervolino

2 Roger Gervolino was a New Caledonian politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly of France for three terms, from 21 October 1945 to 10 June 1946, 2 June 1946 to 27 November 1946, and...

Roger Laroque

2 Roger Laroque was a New Caledonian businessman and politician. He served as mayor of Nouméa from 1953 to 1985 and as a member of the Territorial Assembly from 1972 to 1984.

André-Marie Ampère

2 André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". He is also the...

Franz Liszt

2 Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the...

Arnold Daly

2 Arnold Daly was an American actor, playwright, and producer. He was the father of actress and Algonquin Round Table personality Blyth Daly.

Jean Terrasson

2 Jean Terrasson, often referred to as the Abbé Terrasson, was a French Catholic priest, author and member of the Académie française. The erudite Antoine Terrasson was his nephew.

François Burck

2 François Burck né à Thio le 4 juin 1939 et mort à Moindou le 9 octobre 2014 est une figure politique de l'indépendantisme en Nouvelle-Calédonie.

Hector Berlioz

2 Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and...

Jacques Cartier

2 Jacques Cartier was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River,...

Winston Churchill

2 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again...

Édouard Dalmayrac

2 Édouard Dalmayrac était un homme politique français de Nouvelle-Calédonie, d'obédience radicale, franc-maçonne, laïque et républicaine, né le 15 décembre 1888 à Pouembout, dans un camp dirigé par...

Arthur Rimbaud

2 Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he...

José-Maria de Heredia

2 José-Maria de Heredia was a Cuban-born French Parnassian poet. He was the fifteenth member elected for seat 4 of the Académie française in 1894.

Pierre de Ronsard

2 Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet or, as his own generation in France called him, a "prince of poets".

Yuri Gagarin

2 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Paul Verlaine

2 Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and...

Jean-Henri Fabre

2 Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects.