People
- Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron (1524–1592), a celebrated French soldier
- Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1562–1602), a French marshal, son of Armand de Biron
- Armand Louis de Gontaut (1747–1793), known as Biron, soldier and politician
- Ernst Johann von Biron, (1690–1769), Russian regent 1740, sovereign Duke of Courland (1737–40, 1763–72)
- Peter von Biron, (1724–1800), sovereign Duke of Courland (1769–95), son of Ernst Johann von Biron
- Martin Biron, an NHL goalie.
- Mathieu Biron, an ice hockey defenceman, brother of Martin Biron
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in “the people.” One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.”
—Cynthia Paine (b. 1934)