Étienne
Étienne, a French equivalent of Stephen/Steven, is a given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne.People
Scientists and inventors
- Étienne Bézout, French mathematician
- Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French entomologist and pharmacist
- Étienne Laspeyres, German professor of economics and statistics
- Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer who invented the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers
- Étienne Lenoir , French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle surveying instrument
- Étienne Mulsant, French entomologist and ornithologist
- Étienne Pascal, French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist
- Étienne Pierre Ventenat, French botanist
- Étienne Wasserzug, French biologist
Intellectuals and academics
- Étienne Balazs, Hungarian-born French sinologist
- Étienne Balibar, French Marxist philosopher and professor
- Étienne Baluze, French scholar also known as Stephanus Baluzius
- Étienne de La Boétie, French intellectual and noted friend of Michel de Montaigne
- Étienne Cabet, French philosopher and utopian socialist
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher
- Étienne Dolet, French scholar, translator and printer
- Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist
- Étienne Gilson, French philosopher
- Étienne Hubert , French physician, Orientalist and diplomat, also known as Stephanus Hubertus
- Étienne Lamotte, Belgian priest, Indologist and authority on Buddhism
- Etienne Vermeersch, Belgian philosopher
- Étienne Weill-Raynal, French historian, resistant, journalist and Socialist politician.
- Étienne Wenger, education theorist
Politicians, government officials and soldiers
- Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French military officer, statesman and diplomat
- Étienne Bazeries, French military cryptanalyst
- Étienne Eustache Bruix, French Navy admiral
- Étienne Clavière, Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution
- Étienne Clémentel, French politician
- Étienne Compayré, French politician.
- Étienne Davignon, Belgian politician, businessman and former vice-president of the European Commission
- Étienne Maurice Gérard, comte Gérard, French general and statesman
- Étienne Guy, surveyor and politician in Lower Canada
- Etienne van der Horst, Curaçaoan politician
- Étienne Manac'h, French diplomat and writer
- Étienne Marcel, provost of the merchants of Paris under King John II
- Étienne Parent, Canadian journalist and government official
- Étienne Richaud, Governor of French India
- Etienne Saqr, Lebanese founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party
- Étienne Tshisekedi, politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire, a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War and a close comrade of Joan of Arc
- Etienne Ys, twice Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
Arts and entertainment
- Etienne, pen name of Dom Orejudos, American erotic artist, dancer, and choreographer
- Étienne Aigner, Hungarian-born German fashion designer
- Étienne Chatiliez, French film director
- Étienne de Crécy, French electronic music producer and DJ
- Étienne Daho, French singer, songwriter and record producer
- Etienne Debel, Belgian actor and director
- Étienne Doirat, French furniture designer.
- Étienne Maurice Falconet, French Rococo sculptor
- Etienne Girardot, Anglo-French actor
- Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin, French dramatist and poet
- Étienne Loulié, French musician, pedagogue and musical theorist
- Étienne Méhul, French composer
- Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer
- Étienne Périer , Belgian film director
Sports
- Étienne Bally, French sprinter
- Etienne Barbara, Maltese footballer
- Étienne Boulay, Canadian football player
- Étienne Capoue, French footballer
- Étienne Dagon, Swiss breaststroke swimmer
- Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian winner of the 54 pound weight throw at the 1904 Olympics
- Étienne Didot, French footballer
- Etienne Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
- Étienne Mattler, French footballer
- Etienne L. de Mestre, Australian racehorse trainer
- Etienne Stott, English slalom canoeist
Other
- Étienne Bacrot, French chess player, formerly the youngest person ever to have earned the Grandmaster title
- Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in what is now Canada
- Étienne Gaboury, Canadian architect
- Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters
- Étienne Pernet, French Roman Catholic priest, founder of Little Sisters of the Assumption Order
- Étienne Provost, French-Canadian fur trader
- Étienne Tempier, also known as Stephanus of Orleans, French bishop of Paris and Chancellor of the Sorbonne
Fictional characters
- Étienne of Navarre, a main character in Ladyhawke, a 1985 historical-fantasy, played by Rutger Hauer
- Étienne Lantier, protagonist of Émile Zola's novel Germinal
- Etienne Argeneau, one of the main characters of Lynsay Sands' romance novel Love Bites
- Étienne St. Clair, a main character in the novel Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
- Étienne, a French electric locomotive in the 11th special of Thomas & Friends, The Great Race.