Alain (given name)
Introduction '''Alain''' () is widely used as a personal name and is the French form of Alan but also exists in English-speaking countries:==A==*Alain Absire (born 1950), French writer*Alain Acard (1951–2023), French sprint canoeist*Alain Alivon (born 1965), French military and drill instructor*Alain Altamirano (born 1980), Mexican Neuroscientist*Alain Altinoglu (born 1975), French-Armenian conductor*Alain Ambrosino (born 1951), French rally driver*Alain Amougou (born 1973), Cameroonian footballer*Alain Anderton, British author of business studies and economics textbooks*Alain Anen (born 1950), Luxembourgian fencer*Alain Andji (born 1974), French pole vaulter*Alain André, Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec*Alain Anziani (born 1951), member of the Senate of France, representing the Gironde department*Alain Aoun (born 1971), Lebanese politician and nephew of President Michel Aoun*Alain Arroyo (born 1982), Spanish footballer and manager*Alain Aspect (born 1947), French physicist*Alain Akouala Atipault (born 1959), Congolese politician*Alain Attalah (born 1964), Egyptian basketball player*Alain Auderset (born 1968), Swiss Christian author of comic books*Alain Ayissi (born 1962), Cameroonian cyclist*Alain Ayroles (born 1968), French author, playwright, screenwriter, and translator==B==*Alain Baclet (born 1986), French footballer*Alain Badiou (born 1937), French philosopher*Alain Bailey (born 1987), Jamaican long jumper*Alain Bancquart (1934–2022), French composer*Alain Baraton (born 1957), French gardener*Alain Baroja (born 1989), Venezuelan football goalkeeper*Alain Barrau (1947–2021), French politician*Alain Barrière (1935–2019), French singer*Alain Barudoni (born 1940), Swiss fencer*Alain Bashung (1947–2009), French singer, songwriter and actor*Alain Bauer, (born 1962), French criminologist*Alain Baumann (born 1966), Swiss footballer*Alain Baxter (born 1973), Scottish professional skier*Alain Beaulé (born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player*Alain Bédé (born 1970), Ivorian footballer*Alain Behi (born 1978), French-Ivorian football player*Alain Bejjani (born 1973), Lebanese businessman*Alain Bélanger, Canadian professional hockey player*Alain J. P. Belda, Chairman of the Board of Alcoa since January 2001*Alain Bellemare (born 1962), Canadian businessman*Alain Bellouis (born 1947), French cyclist*Jacques-Alain Bénisti (born 1952), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Benoit (born 1948), French physicist*Alain Bensoussan (born 1940), French mathematician*Alain Berbérian (1953–2017), French-Armenian film director and writer*Alain Bergala (born 1943), French film critic, essayist, screenwriter, and director*Alain Berger (born 1990), Swiss ice hockey player*Alain Berger, Swiss orienteering competitor*Alain Bergeron (born 1950), Canadian science fiction author and political scientist*Alain Berliner (born 1963), Belgian director best known for the 1997 film Ma vie en rose*Alain Bernard (born 1983), French swimmer from Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône*Alain Bernaud (1932–2020), French composer*Alain Bernheim (1922–2009), French-American film producer and literary agent*Alain Bernheim (1931–2022), French musician and Masonic researcher*Alain Berset (born 1972), President of the Swiss Council of States*Alain Billiet (born 1951), the alleged designer of the euro sign (€)*Alain Blanchard (died 1419), commander of the crossbowmen of Touent during the Hundred Years' War*Alain Blondel (born 1962), retired French decathlete*Alain Bocquet (born 1946), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Boghossian (born 1970), retired Armenian-French football player*Alain Boire (born 1971), Canadian politician*Yve-Alain Bois (born 1952), historian and critic of modern art*Alain Bombard (1924–2005), French biologist, physician and politician*Alain Bondue (born 1959), France cyclist*Alain Boublil, librettist who worked with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg*Alain Bouchard, Canadian businessman*Jean-Alain Boumsong (born 1979), Cameroonian professional football defender*Alain Bravo, French electrical engineer and entrepreneur*Alain Brunet, French scholar==C==*Alain Cacheux (1947–2020), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Calmat (born 1940), French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician*Alain Cantareil (born 1983), French footballer*Alain Caron (1938–1986), Canadian professional ice hockey player*Alain Caron (born 1955), Canadian jazz musician and bass player*Alain F. Carpentier (born 1933), French heart surgeon*Alain Casanova (born 1961), football former goalkeeper and manager*Alain Cavalier (born 1931), French film director*Alain Caveglia (born 1968), French football retired striker*Alain Cayzac (born 1941), French advertising agent*Alain Chabat (born 1958), French Jewish actor and director*Alain Chamfort (born 1949), French singer of Breton origin*Alain Chapel (1937–1990), French Michelin 3 starred chef*Alain Chartier (1392–1430), French poet and political writer*Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière (1748–1822), seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada*Alain Chatillon (born 1943), member of the Senate of France*Alain Chevrier (born 1961), retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender*Alain Claeys (born 1948), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Clark (born 1979), Dutch musician and producer*Alain Colmerauer (1941-2017), French computer scientist*Alain Connes (born 1947), French mathematician*Alain Corbin, French historian, specialist of the 19th century in France*Alain Corneau (1943–2010), French movie director and writer*Alain Côté (born 1957), professional ice hockey player for the Quebec Nordiques*Alain Côté (born 1967), former professional ice hockey player and Roller Hockey player*Alain Couriol (born 1958), former French football striker*Alain Courtois (born 1951), Belgian politician*Alain Cousin (born 1947), member of the National Assembly of France*Marie-Alain Couturier (1897–1954), French Dominican friar, designer of stained glass windows*Alain Cuny (1908–1994), French actor==D==*Alain Daigle (born 1954), former professional ice hockey forward*Alain Daniélou (1907–1994), French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and convert to Shaivite Hinduism*Alain de Benoist (born 1943), French academic, philosopher, founder of the Nouvelle Droite*Alain de Boissieu (1914–2006), French general, son-in-law of general Charles de Gaulle*Alain de Botton, (born 1969), British writer and television producer*Alain de Cadenet (1945–2022), on-air personality for the SPEED Channel and ESPN*Alain de Changy (1922–1994), Belgian racing driver*Alain de Coëtivy (1407–1474), prelate from a Breton noble family*Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon (1646–1730), Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV*Alain Huetz de Lemps, French geographer and botanist*Alain de Lille (1128–1202), French theologian and poet*Alain de Mijolla (1933–2019), French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist*Alain de Royer-Dupré (born 1944), French racehorse trainer*Alain de Solminihac (1593–1659), French Catholic religious reformer and bishop of Cahors*Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle (1951–2000), the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte*Alain Decaux (1925–2016), French historian*Alain Defossé (1957-2017), French novelist and translator*Alain Delon (born 1935), César Award-winning French actor*Alain Demurger, modern French historian, specialist of the history of the Knights Templar and the Crusades*Alain Deneef, Belgian businessman*Alain Desrosières, French statistician at the INSEE and a sociologist and historian of science at the EHESS *Alain Destexhe, Belgian liberal politician*Alain Desvergnes (1931–2020), French photographer*Alain Digbeu (born 1975), French professional basketball player*Étienne Alain Djissikadié (born 1977), Gabonese footballer*Pierre-Alain Donnier, Swiss journalist, died while reporting from Tchad in 1988*Alain Dorval (1946-2024), French voice actor born in Algiers*Alain Dostie (born 1943), Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter*Alain Dubuc, Canadian journalist and an economist *Alain Ducasse (born 1956), Monégasque chef*Alain Dufaut (born 1944), member of the Senate of France, representing the Vaucluse department*Alain Duhamel (born 1940), French journalist and political commentator==E==*Alain Ehrenberg (born 1950), French sociologist*Alain Michel Ekoue, Cameroonian football player*Alain Elkann (born 1950), Italian novelist and journalist of Jewish descent*Alain Enthoven (born 1930), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965*Alain Escoffier (1949–1977), French anti-communist activist and martyr*Alain Etchegoyen (1951–2007), French philosopher and novelist*Alain Eyobo (born 1961), retired Cameroonian professional football forward*Alain Erlande-Brandenburg (1937–2020), French art historian and archivist==F==*Jean-Alain Fanchone (born 1988), French footballer*Alain Fauconnier (born 1945), French politician and a member of the Senate of France*Alain Ferry (born 1952), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Ferté (born 1955), French professional racing driver*Alain Figaret, French luxury shirt brand launched in 1968 by Alain Figaret*Alain Finkielkraut (born 1949), French essayist, and son of a Jewish Polish artisan*Alain Fouché (born 1942), French politician and a member of the Senate of France*Alain Fournier (1943–2000), computer graphics researcher*Alain Frachon (born 1950), French journalist *Pierre-Alain Frau, (born 1980), French football forward==G==*Alain Bernat Gallego (born 1971), Andorran politician*Alain Garant (born 1952), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons*Alain Gaspoz (born 1970), Beninese football player who, is playing for FC Bagnes*Alain Geiger (born 1960), retired Swiss international football defender and current manager*Alain Gerbault (1893–1941), French aviator, tennis champion and sailor*Alain Gest (born 1950), French politician*Alain Gheerbrant (1920–2013), French writer, editor, poet and explorer*Alain Giletti (born 1939), French figure skater*Alain Giresse (born 1952), French professional football (soccer) midfielder*Alain Glavieux (died 2004), French professor in electrical engineering *Alain Goma (born 1972), former football player*Alain Goraguer (1931–2023), French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer*Alain Gouaméné (born 1966), former football goalkeeper from Côte d'Ivoire*Alain Gournac (born 1943), French politician and a member of the Senate of France*Alain Grandbois, CC (1900–1975), Quebecer poet born in Saint-Casimir, Quebec*Alain Guionnet (born 1954), French revisionist and a left-wing activist==H==*Alain Haché (born 1970), experimental physicist and associate professor at the University of Moncton, Canada*Alain Hamer (born 1965), Luxembourgian football referee*Alain Héroux (born 1964), former professional ice hockey left winger*Alain Hertoghe (born 1959), Belgian journalist who worked for the French Catholic newspaper ''La Croix''*Alain Houpert (born 1957), French politician and a member of the Senate of France*Alain Hutchinson (born 1949), Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament==J==*Alain Jacquet (1939–2008), French artist representative of the American Pop Art movement*Alain Jessua (1932–2017), French film director and screenwriter*Alain Johannes (born 1962), guitarist and member of the band ''Eleven''*Alain Johns, fictional gunslinger in Stephen King's ''Dark Tower'' series of novels*Alain Joly, French businessman*Georges-Alain Jones (born 1975), French singer*Alain Joyandet (born 1954), French politician*Alain Juppé (born 1945), French right-wing politician, Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997==K==*Alain Kashama (born 1979), professional Canadian football player*Alain Muana Kizamba, goalkeeper from the Democratic Republic of the Congo*Alain Koffi (born 1983), French professional basketball player*Alain Koudou (born 1984), Ivorian football striker*Alain Krivine (1941–2022), leader of the Trotskyist movement in France==L==*Alain Lamassoure (born 1944), French politician and Member of the European Parliament*Alain Lambert (born 1946), French politician*Alain Le Boulluec, contemporary French patristics scholar*Alain Le Bussy (1947–2010), prolific Belgian author of science fiction*Alain Le Vern (born 1948), French Socialist Senator, president of the Haute-Normandie region*Alain Lebas (born 1953), French sprint canoeist*Alain Paul Lebeaupin (1945–2021), French Archbishop*Alain Lefèvre (born 1962), Québécois pianist and composer*Alain Lemercier (born 1957), retired male race walker from France*Alain Lemieux (born 1962), retired ice hockey player*Alain Lequeux (1947–2006), French jockey*Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747), French novelist and playwright*Alain Lestié (born 1944), French painter and writer*Alain A. Lewis (born 1947), American mathematician*Alain Lipietz (born 1947), French engineer, economist, politician, member of the French Green Party*Alain Liri (born 1979), Côte d'Ivoire footballer*Alain Locke (1885–1954), American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts*Alain Lombard (born 1940), French conductor==M==*Alain Mabanckou (born 1966), author and journalist*Alain Maca, retired American soccer defender, President of the JFK International Air Terminal*Alain Madelin (born 1946), French politician and former minister*Alain Mafart, French military officer*Alain Mamou-Mani, French film producer and writer*Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706), French cartographer and engineer*Alain Marc (born 1957), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Marion (1938–1998), French flautist*Alain Marleix (born 1946), Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from 2007 to 2008*Alain Marty (born 1946), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Masudi (born 1978), Congolese football player*Alain Maury, French astronomer*Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o (born 1957), Cameroonian political figure*Alain Menu (born 1963), Swiss racing driver*Alain Merchadier (born 1952), French retired professional football defender*Alain Mesili, political activist in France during the 1968 disturbances*Alain Meslet (born 1950), French professional road bicycle racer*Alain Meunier (born 1942), French cellist*Alain Mikli (born 1955), French designer of high-end handmade eyeglasses and accessories*Jacques-Alain Miller, prominent French Lacanian psychoanalyst*Alain Milon (born 1947), member of the Senate of France*Alain Mimoun (1921–2013), French Olympic marathon champion*Alain Moizan (born 1953), French retired professional football midfielder*Alain Moka (born 1954), Congolese politician*Alain Moyne-Bressand (born 1945), member of the National Assembly of France*Pierre-Alain Muet (born 1945), member of the National Assembly of France==N==*Alain Nasreddine (born 1975), professional ice hockey defenceman*Alain Ndizeye (born 1986), Burundian football defender*Alain Ndjoubi Ossami, Gabonese politician and economist*Alain Nef (born 1982), Swiss football defender*Alain Néri (born 1942), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Ngalani (born 1975), Cameroonian two-time Muay Thai kickboxing world champion*Alain Nkong (born 1979), Cameroonian football midfielder==O==*Alain Junior Ollé Ollé (born 1987), Cameroonian professional footballer==P==*Alain Paquet (born 1961), Canadian politician, teacher and economist*Alain Pasquier (born 1942), French art historian specialising in ancient Greek art, museography and conservation*Alain Passard (born 1956), French chef and owner of the three star restaurant ''L'Arpège'' in Paris*Alain Payet (1947–2007), French director of Nazi exploitation and chic porn movies*Alain Pellegrini (born 1946), French général de Division*Alain Perrin (born 1956), French football manager and former footballer*Alain Peyrefitte (1925–1999), French scholar and politician*Alain Poher (1909–1996), French centrist politician*Alain Poiré (1917–2000), French film producer and screenwriter*Alain Pons (born 1995), Gibraltarian footballer*Alain Pompidou (born 1942), French scientist and politician*Alain Portes (born 1961), French handball player*Alain Portmann (born 1981), Swiss football goalkeeper*Alain Prost (born 1955), French racing driver; Four Time Formula One World Champion*Alain Provost, French Landscape Architect==Q==*Marc-Alain Ouaknin (born 1957), French rabbi and philosopher==R==*Alain Raguel (born 1976), French football player*Alain Rakotondramanana (born 1970), Malagasy footballer*Alain Ramadier (born 1958), French politician*Alain Rayes (born 1971), Canadian politician*Alain Razahasoa (born 1966), Malagasy long-distance runner*Alain Rémond (born 1946), French humor columnist*Alain Resnais (1922–2014), French New Wave film director*Alain Rey (1928–2020), French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality*Alain Rey (born 1982), Swiss ski mountaineer*Alain Richard (born 1945), French politician*Alain Richard (born 1985), Swiss ski mountaineer*Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008), French writer and filmmaker*Alain Robert (born 1962), French rock and urban climber*Alain Robidoux (born 1960), Canadian snooker player*Alain Roca (born 1976), retired volleyball player from Cuba*Alain Rochat (born 1983), Swiss footballer*Alain Roche, former French football defender*Alain Rohr (born 1971), Swiss athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles*Alain Rolland (born 1966), former Irish rugby union footballer and current international referee*Alain Romans (1905–1988), French jazz composer*Alain Rousset (born 1951), the Socialist president of the Aquitaine region of France==S==*Alain Sailhac, Executive Vice President and Dean Emeritus at the French Culinary Institute in New York City*Alain Saint-Ogan (1895–1974), French comics author and artist*Alain Sarde (born 1952), French film producer and actor*Alain Sars (born 1961), retired French professional football referee*Alain Savary (1918–1988), French Socialist politician*Alain Schmitt (born 1983), French judoka*Alain Schultz (born 1983), Swiss association footballer*Alain Senderens, leading French chef credited as one of the founders of Nouvelle Cuisine*Alain Sergile, Haitian swimmer who lived in Roswell, Georgia*Alain Silver, US film and music producer, and reviewer, historian and writer on film topics, especially film noir and horror films*Alain Simard (businessman), President and CEO of L'Équipe Spectra since its inception in 1977*Alain Soral (born 1958), French sociologist, essayist, and film maker, as well as being the author of several polemical essays*Alain Souchon (born 1944), French singer, songwriter and actor*Alain Suguenot (born 1951), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Suied (1951–2008), French poet and translator*Alain Supiot, French legal scholar*Alain Sutter (born 1968), Swiss football player*Alain Sylvestre (born 1979), professional Canadian kickboxer*Alain Succar (born 1990), professional F&B consultancy==T==*Alain Tabourian, Lebanese politician of Armenian origin*Alain Tanner (1929–2022), Swiss film director*Alain Taravella (born 1948), French billionaire*Alain Tardif (born 1946), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons*Alain Touraine (1925–2023), French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer*Alain Touwaide (born 1953), Belgian historian of medicine and sciences currently researching at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.*Alain Traoré (born 1988), Burkinabé football (soccer) midfielder*Alain Trudel (born 1966), Canadian musician, composer and conductor*Alain Turnier, Haitian historian==V==*Alain Vanzo (1928–2002), French opera singer and composer*Alain Vasselle (born 1947), member of the Senate of France representing the Oise department*Alain Vasseur (born 1948), French professional road bicycle racer*Alain Viala (1947–2021), professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and the University of Paris III*Alain Vidalies (born 1951), member of the National Assembly of France*Alain Vigneault (born 1961), the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL*Alain Vivien (born 1938), French Socialist Party (PS) politician==W==*Alain Weill (born 1946), French art critic, expert in graphic design and advertising*Alain Wertheimer (1949), French businessman who owns a controlling interest in the House of Chanel with his brother Gerard*Alain Whyte (pronounced Alan) (born 1967), English guitarist, singer, and songwriter*Alain Wicki, Swiss skeleton racer*Alain Williams (born 1954), British sprint canoeist==Y==*Alain Bédouma Yoda (born 1951), Burkinabé politician and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation==Z==*Alain Zoubga (born 1953), medical doctor and politician in Burkina Faso
Other *Alain, bishop of Auxerre (died 1185), Cistercian abbot and bishop of Auxerre from 1152 to 1167*Alain I of Albret (1440–1522), powerful French aristocrat*Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier, French author and soldier
Fictional characters *Alain, recurring character in the ''Pokémon'' anime series*Alain, a recurring character in tokusatsu series ''Kamen Rider Ghost''* Alain van Versch, a fictional character played by Matthias Schoenaerts in ''Rust and Bone''
See also * Alain (surname)