Achille

Achille is a French and Italian masculine given name, derived from the Greek mythological hero Achilles. It may refer to:

Artists

 * Achille Beltrame (1871–1945), Italian painter
 * Achille Calici (c. 1565–?), Italian painter
 * Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002), Italian designer
 * Achille Cattaneo (1872–1931), Italian painter
 * Achille Devéria (1800–1857), French painter and lithographer
 * Achille Duchêne (1866–1947), French garden designer
 * Achille Empéraire (1829–1898), French painter
 * Achille Formis (1832–1906), Italian painter
 * Achille Funi (1890–1972), Italian painter
 * Achille Glisenti (1848–1906), Italian painter
 * Achille Granchi-Taylor (1857–1921), French painter and illustrator
 * Achille Lega (1899–1934), Italian painter
 * Achille Leonardi (c. 1800–1870), Italian painter
 * Achille Locatelli (painter) (1864–1948), Italian painter
 * Achille Mauzan (1883–1952), French illustrator, painter and sculptor
 * Achille Etna Michallon (1796–1822), French painter
 * Achille Mollica (1832–1885), Italian painter
 * Achille Peretti (artist) (1857–1923), Italian painter, sculptor and anarchist
 * Achille Petrocelli (1861/62–1896), Italian painter
 * Achille Pinelli (1809–1841), Italian painter
 * Achille Solari (1835–1884), Italian painter
 * Achille Valois (1785–1862), French designer and sculptor
 * Achille Vertunni (1826–1897), Italian painter
 * Achille Vianelli (1803–1894), Italian painter
 * Achille Zo (1826–1901), French painter

Musicians, composers and singers

 * Achille Baquet (1885–1955/1956), American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
 * Achille De Bassini (1819–1881), Italian baritone
 * Achille Campisiano (1837–1908), French pianist and composer
 * Achille Rivarde (1865–1940), American-born British violinist and teacher
 * Achille Simonetti (1857–1928), Italian violinist and composer
 * Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French impressionistic composer and pianist

Politicians

 * Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1781–1864), French politician
 * Achille Casanova (1941–2016), Swiss journalist and politician
 * Achille Corona (1914–1979), Italian socialist politician, lawyer and journalist
 * Achille Joseph Delamare (1790–1873), French senator
 * Achille Larue (1849–1922), Canadian lawyer and politician
 * Achille Occhetto (born 1936), Italian politician
 * Achille Peretti (1911–1983), French politician
 * Achille Serra (politician) (born 1941), Italian politician
 * Achille Starace (1889–1945), Italian fascist leader before and during World War II

Religious figures

 * Achille Grassi (1456–1523), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
 * Achille Gagliardi (1537–1607), Italian ascetic writer and Jesuit
 * Achille Glorieux (1910–1999), French Catholic prelate, archbishop and diplomat
 * Achille Harlay de Sancy (1581–1646), French diplomat, linguist, orientalist and Catholic bishop
 * Achille Liénart (1884–1973), French Catholic cardinal and bishop
 * Achille d'Étampes de Valençay (1593–1646), French military leader, a Knight of Malta and Catholic cardinal

Scientists and mathematicians

 * Achille Allier (1807–1836), French archaeologist, writer and art critic
 * Achille Costa (1823–1899), Italian entomologist
 * Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse (1817–1881), French geologist and mineralogist
 * Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour (1734–1794), French astronomer and mathematician
 * Achille Marie Gaston Floquet (1847–1920), French mathematician
 * Achille Gerste (1854–1920), Belgian Catholic priest, Jesuit, philologist and linguist
 * Achille Guenée (1809–1880), French entomologist and lawyer
 * Achille Loria (1857–1943), Italian Jewish political economist and sociologist
 * A. E. Meeussen (1912–1978), Belgian philologist
 * Achille Müntz (1846–1917), French agricultural chemist
 * Achille Ouy (1889–1959), French philosopher and sociologist
 * Achille Urbain (1884–1957), French biologist
 * Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865), French zoologist

Sportsmen

 * Achille Anani (born 1994), Ivorian footballer playing in France
 * Achille Campion (born 1990), French footballer
 * Achille Compagnoni (1914–2009), Italian mountaineer and skier
 * Achille Coser (born 1982), Italian football goalkeeper
 * Achille Emaná (born 1982), Cameroonian footballer
 * Achille Fould (bobsleigh) (1919–1949), French bobsledder
 * Achille Varzi (1904–1948), Italian Grand Prix race car driver

Other

 * Achille Ballière (1840–1905), French architect
 * Achille Boitel (died 1944), French businessman and Nazi collaborator
 * Achille Jubinal (1810–1875), French medievalist
 * Achille Leclère (1785–1853), French architect and teacher of architecture
 * Achille Majeroni (1881–1964), Italian film actor
 * Achille Maramotti (1927–2005), Italian fashion designer and founder of Max Mara, an Italian fashion company
 * Achille Marozzo (1484–1553), Italian fencing master
 * Achille Mbembe (born 1957), Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist
 * Achille Millien (1838–1927), French poet and folklorist
 * Achille Millo, stage name of Italian actor, voice actor and stage director Achille Scognamillo (1922–2006)
 * Prince Achille Murat (1801–1847), eldest son of Joachim Murat
 * Achille St. Onge (1913–1978), American publisher of miniature books
 * Achille Zavatta (1915–1993), French clown, artist and circus operator

Fictional characters

 * Achille Poirot, the "brother" of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot (actually Hercule in disguise) in the novel The Big Four
 * the title character of Achille Talon, a comic book series
 * the title character of Achille in Sciro, a 1737 opera
 * Rodrigue Achille Fraldarius, a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses