Blaise (name)
Blaise is a masculine given name and surname derived from the Greek Βλασιος (Vlasios) of uncertain origin and meaning.
 15th century tempera of Saint Blaise | |
| Pronunciation | 'Blaze' |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | French (derived from Greek and Latin) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Blaize, Basil, Balbino, Tyson |
People
Given name
- 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
Surname
- 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 characters
- 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, from the Wild Cards series of books
- Blaise Zabini, a minor Slytherin character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
- 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
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