Didier
Didier is a French masculine given name and surname common throughout the Romance languages. It comes from the Ancient Roman name Didius[citation needed]. During the 5th century AD, with the Christianisation of ancient pagan names, it became associated with the name Desiderius, related to Latin desiderium – which can be translated as "ardent desire" or "the longed-for".[citation needed]
List
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Didier Ahadsi (born 1970), Togolese self-taught artist and sculptor
- Didier Agathe (born 1975), French footballer
- Didier André (born 1974), French race car driver
- Didier Boulaud (born 1950), French senate member
- Didier Burkhalter (born 1960), Swiss politician
- Didier of Cahors (c. 580–655), Desiderius or (saint) Didier, French saint
- Didier Couécou (born 1944), French footballer
- Didier Daeninckx (born 1949), French crime writer and politician
- Didier Delsalle (born 1957), French helicopter pilot
- Didier Deschamps (born 1968), French international footballer and manager
- Didier Diderot (1685–1759), French craftsman
- Didier Drogba (born 1978), Ivorian association football player
- Didier Flament (born 1951), French fencer
- Didier Hassoux, French investigative journalist
- Didier Lavergne, French make-up artist
- Didier Lemaire (born 1975), French politician
- Didier Malherbe (born 1943), French musician, member of the music group Gong
- Didier Marouani (born 1953), French musician, founder of the music group "Space"
- Didier Niquet
- Didier Ollé-Nicolle (born 1961), French former footballer and football manager
- Didier Opertti (born 1937), Uruguayan political figure and lawyer
- Didier Pironi (1952–1987), French Formula One driver
- Didier Pittet (born 1957), Swiss immunologist
- Didier Raoult (born 1952), French physician and microbiologist
- Didier Ratsiraka (1936–2021), Malagasy politician, President of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002
- Didier Reynders (born 1958), Belgian politician
- Didier Sornette (born 1957), French physicist, economist, and risk manager
- Didier Van Cauwelaert (born 1960), French author of Belgian descent
- Didier Zokora (born 1980), Ivorian international footballer
Surname
- Candice Didier (born 1988), French figure skater
- Charles Didier (1805–1864), Swiss writer, poet and traveller
- Christian Didier, assassin of René Bousquet
- Clint Didier (born 1959), American politician and football tight end in the NFL
- Eugene L. Didier (1838–1913), American writer
- Évelyne Didier (born 1948), French senate member
- John Peter Didier (1748–1823), U.S. politician, first State Treasurer of Missouri
- Laurent Didier (born 1984), Luxembourgish road bicycle racer
- Lucas Didier (born 2003), French para table tennis player
- Mel Didier (1927–2017), American baseball player, coach, scout, and executive
- Raymond Didier (1920–1978), American college sports coach and administrator
- Ugo Didier (born 2001), French Paralympic swimmer
See also
- Didier Kumalo, an Australian musical group
- Saint-Didier (disambiguation), name of several communes in France
- Henry de Sainct-Didier, 16th century fencing master