Charpentier

Charpentier is the French word for carpenter and a French surname. A variant spelling is Carpentier.

Origin: [900-1000] Charpentier - Old French < Late Latin; carpentarius artifex or wainwright, equivalent to Latin carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2.^[1]

In English it is Carpenter (surname). In German it is Zimmermann.

• A Y-DNA Project exists for this surname.

Charpentier may refer to:

• Constance Marie Charpentier (1767–1849), French Painter
• François Charpentier (1620–1702), French archaeologist and scholar
• Fulgence Charpentier (1897–2001), Canadian journalist, editor and publisher
• Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), French composer
• Jean de Charpentier (1786–1855), German-Swiss geologist
• Jean-Marie Charpentier, French architect
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704), French composer
• Sébastien Charpentier (b. 1973), French motorcycle racer
• Sébastien Charpentier (b. 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
• Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist

See also

• Charpentier River River in Northern Quebec (Ungava Peninsula), Canada
• Von Charpentier or de Charpentier, a German family of geologists:
  • Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Toussaint von Charpentier (1738–1805)

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