Charpentier

Charpentier (pronounced [ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje]) is the French word for "carpenter", and it is also a French surname; a variant spelling is Carpentier. In English, the equivalent word and name is "Carpenter"; in German, "Zimmermann"; in Dutch, "Timmerman".

Quick facts Pronunciation, Origin ...

Charpentier
Pronunciation	shar PAHN' t'yay
Origin
Meaning	worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood
Other names
Variant form(s)	Carpenter, Timmerman, Zimmermann, Zimmerman, Carpentier, Zimerman

The origin of the name dates to 900–1000, when the Old French "Charpentier" derived from the Late Latin carpentarius artifex ("carpenter" or "wainwright"), equivalent to Latin carpent(um), meaning "two-wheeled carriage" (perhaps ultimately derived from Celtic—consider Old Irish carpad, "chariot"), suffixed with arius ("-ary"); see ER2.^[1]

Visual arts

Alexandre Charpentier (1856–1909), French sculptor
Constance Marie Charpentier (1767–1849), French painter
Elisa Beetz-Charpentier (1859-1949), French sculptor
Jean-Marie Charpentier (1939-2010), French architect
Marguerite Charpentier (1848-1904), French art collector and salonist

Composers & musicians

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704), French composer of much sacred vocal music including Te Deum (Charpentier), and Molière's last collaborator
Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier (28 June 1734 – 6 May 1794) French organist and composer, father of Jacques-Marie (1766–1834), also an organist and composer
Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), French composer of Louise (opera)
Gabriel Charpentier (born 1925), Canadian composer (see Canadian encyclopedia entry)
Jacques Charpentier (1933–2017), French composer and organist

Politicians

Gilles Charpentier (born 1927), French politician
Léon Charpentier (1859–1945), French politician
Victor-Therese Charpentier (1732–1776), French governor-general of Saint-Domingue

Scientists

Augustin Charpentier (1852–1916), French physician, investigator of size-weight illusion
Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968), French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry
François Charpentier (1620–1702), French archaeologist and scholar
François-Philippe Charpentier (1734–1817), French engraver and inventor
Johann von or Jean de Charpentier (1786–1855), German-Swiss geologist, namesake of the Antarctic Charpentier Pyramid
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm de Charpentier (1738–1805), the father of both Toussaint and Johann/Jean
Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), mathematician
Myriam Charpentier, molecular biologist
Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist

Soldiers

Henri François Marie Charpentier (1769–1831), French general of the Napoleonic Wars

Writers

Fulgence Charpentier (1897–2001), Canadian journalist, editor and publisher

Athletes

Sébastien Charpentier (born 1973), French motorcycle racer
Sébastien Charpentier (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
Gabriel Charpentier (born 1999), Congolese-born French association football player

Other

Henri Charpentier (183?-1888), namesake of a lake and town in North Dakota
Georges Charpentier (1846-1905), 19th century French publisher

Persons with the surname