Charpentier

Charpentier 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".

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.

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
 * 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