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This is a list of notable people with the given name Augustine. Augustine Albert (1791 – after 1846), French opera singer; Augustine Baines (1786/87–1843), English religious figure; Herbert Augustine Carter (1874–1916), English recipient of the Victoria Cross; Augustine Chacon (1861–1902), Mexican outlaw
Augustin Deleanu (1944–2014), Romanian footballer; Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841), Swiss botanist; Augustin Joseph Dugas (known as Gus Dugas, 1907–1997), Canadian-born professional baseball player; Augustin Dumay (born 1949), French violinist and conductor; Augustin Eduard (born 1962), Romanian professional footballer
Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
Within the United States, both Augustine and Austin have additionally been used very rarely for girls. [2] The shortened form, Austin, has ranked in the top 50 names given to baby boys born in the United States from 1990 to 2007. The Spanish form, Agustín, was the most popular name given to baby boys born in Uruguay in 2006 and in Chile in ...
Augustine was accompanied by Laurence of Canterbury, his eventual successor to the archbishopric, and a group of about 40 companions, some of whom were monks. [15] Soon after leaving Rome, the missionaries halted, daunted by the nature of the task before them. They sent Augustine back to Rome to request papal permission to return.
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (UK: / p ɑːr ˈ m ɛ n t i eɪ,-ˈ m ɒ n t-/, US: / ˌ p ɑːr m ə n ˈ t j eɪ /; [1] French: [ɑ̃twan oɡystɛ̃ paʁmɑ̃tje]; 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe.
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Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), French philosopher and mathematician, influenced the use of mathematics in economics, known for oligopoly theory, Cournot competition is named for him; Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Polish mathematician and economist; Carol Corrado (living), American economist