Faure

Faure is a French family name meaning blacksmith, from Latin faber. Notable people with the name include:

  • Edgar Faure, French politician
  • Élie Faure, French art historian and essayist
  • Émile Alphonse Faure, lead battery pioneer
  • Félix Faure, 19th-century French president
  • Gabriel Fauré French composer and organist
  • Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier
  • Jacques Faure (ambassador), French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
  • Jacques-Paul Faure (1869–1924), head of the French military mission to Japan (1918–1919)
  • Jean-Baptiste Faure, French baritone and composer
  • Keith Faure, Australian career criminal
  • Luigi Faure (1901–1974), Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper
  • Martine Faure, French politician
  • Sébastien Faure, French anarchist
  • Sébastien Faure (footballer), French footballer
  • Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo