Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter); Pierre Abelard (French philosopher); Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize winning physicist); Pierre Cardin (French fashion designer); Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay); Pierre Casiraghi of Monaco (royalty, third in line to the Monaco throne); Pierre Trudeau (former Prime Minister of Canada); Pierre Bouvier (lead singer in the band Simple Plan); Pierre Garçon (football player); Pierre Salinger (former Press Secretary to JFK); Pierre Thomas (football player); Pierre de Coubertin (Father of the modern Olympic games); Pierre Turgeon (hockey player); Pierre Boulez (French composer); Pierre Chouteau, Jr., (American fur trader after whom Pierre, South Dakota was named)