People 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 composer of his era...

Victor Hugo

3 Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

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 made also important...

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 maritime explorer from Brittany. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which...

Winston Churchill

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

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.

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 known in his generation as a "prince of poets". His works include Les Amours de Cassandre (1552), Les Hymnes (1555-1556), Les Discours (1562-1563), La Franciade...

Yuri Gagarin

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

Paul Verlaine

2 Paul Marie Verlaine was a French poet, writer and critic associated with the Symbolist, Parnassianist and Decadent movements. He is considered one of the paramount exponents of the fin de siècle in...

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.