Xavier (given name)
The given name Xavier is a masculine name derived from the 16th-century Spanish Navarrese Roman Catholic Saint Francis Xavier.Etymology
Xavier comes from the name of the Jesuit missionary saint Francis Xavier, where Xavier stands for his birthplace of Javier in the Kingdom of Navarre. The toponym is itself the romanization of the Basque place-name etxe berri, meaning 'castle', 'new house' or 'new home'.People
Arts
- Xavier Abraham, Spanish poet
- Xavier Abril, Peruvian poet
- Xavier Armange, French writer and illustrator
- Xavier Arsène-Henry, French modernist architect and urban planner.
- Xavier Atencio, American animator for The Walt Disney Company
- Xavier Barbier de Montault, French liturgical writer
- Xavier Blum Pinto, Ecuadorian artist
- Xavier Boniface Saintine, French dramatist and novelist
- Xavier Cortada, Cuban-American painter
- Xavier Cugat, Spanish-Cuban band leader
- Xavier Davis, American jazz pianist
- Xavier de Planhol, French historical scholar
- Xavier Dolan, Québécois actor and filmmaker
- Xavier Fagnon, French voice actor
- Xavier Forneret, French poet, playwright and writer
- Xavier Fourcade, French American art dealer
- Xavier Herbert, Australian writer
- Xavier Martinez, an American artist of Mexican descent
- Xavier Naidoo, a German singer and songwriter
- Xavier Rudd, an Australian musician
- Xavier Samuel, an Australian actor
Law, military and politics
- Xavier Becerra, American Democrat
- Xavier Bertrand, French politician
- Xavier Bettel, Luxembourgian politician
- Xavier Bout de Marnhac, French military general
- Xavier Brasseur, Luxembourgian politician
- Xavier Breton, French politician
- Xavier Castro, Ecuadorian lawyer
- Xavier Connor, Australian judge
- Xavier Coppolani, French military leader
- Xavier Darcos, French politician
- Xavier, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, pretender to the defunct throne of Parma, and Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain
- Xavier de Magallon. French poet, translator and politician.
Sports
- Xavier Adibi, American NFL player
- Xavier Aguado, Spanish footballer for Real Zaragoza
- Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
- Xavier Baez, Mexican footballer
- Xavier Barrau, French footballer
- Xavier Beitia, American AFL and college football player
- Xavier Bertoni, French freestyle skier
- Xavier Capdevila Romero, Andorran ski mountaineer
- Xavier Carter, American track athlete
- Xavier Chen, Belgian footballer
- Xavier Clarke, indigenous Australian rules football player
- Xavier Coleman, American football player
- Xavier Comas Guixé, Andorran ski mountaineer
- Xavier Corosine, French basketball player
- Xavier Crawford, American football player
- Xavier Daufresne, Belgian tennis player
- Xavier Delisle, Canadian ice hockey player
- Xavier Dirceu, Brazilian football player
- Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer
- Xavier Dorfman, French Olympic rower
- Xavier Downwind, American NFL player
- Xavier Edwards, American professional baseball player
- Xavier Ellis, Australian rules football player
- Xavier Eluère, French Olympic boxer
- Xavier Escudé, Spanish Olympic field hockey player
- Xavier Florencio, Spanish road bicycle racer
- Xavier Fulton, American NFL player
- Xavier Henry, American NBA player
- Xavier Hernández i Creus or Xavi, a Catalan/Spanish footballer for Al Sadd
- Xavier Maassen, Dutch racing driver
- Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player
- Xavier McKinney, American football player
- Xavier Malisse, Belgian professional tennis player
- Xavier Margairaz, Swiss professional football player
- Xavier Nady, American former professional baseball player
- Xavier Ouellet, French/Canadian ice hockey player
- Xavier Proctor, American football player
- Xavier Rhodes, American football player
- Xavier Rush, New Zealand rugby player
- Xavier Silas, American basketball player
- Xavier Tillman, American basketball player
- Xavier Woods , American football player
Other
- Xavier, Duke of Aquitaine
- Xabier Arzalluz, retired Basque nationalist politician
- Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pathologist
- Xavier Briggs, American sociologist
- Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor of El Nuevo Diario
- Xavier De Cuyper, Belgian engineer and civil servant
- Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli, Austrian Jesuit missionary
- Xavier Fernique, French mathematician
- Xavier Mertz, a Swiss explorer
- Xavier Roberts, an American inventor and manufacturer of Cabbage Patch Kids
- Xavier Rolet, Chief Executive Officer of the London Stock Exchange
- Francis Xavier Seelos, a Roman Catholic Priest
- Xavier Zubiri, a Spanish philosopher
Fictional characters
- Brigadier General Frank Xavier Hummel, antagonist of The Rock.
- Xavier Austin, a character in Australian soap Home and Away
- Xavier Bird, a character in Joseph Boyden's novel Three Day Road
- Xavier Desmond, a character in the George R. R. Martin series Wild Cards
- Xavier Dolls, a character in the supernatural western show Wynonna Earp
- Xavier, the main character of the animated series
- Xavier March, protagonist of Fatherland
- Xavier Quinn, protagonist of The Mighty Quinn
- Xavier Harkonnen, a character in the fictional Dune universe
- Xavier Hutchinson, of the reality TV series Earth which premiered on the Seven Network in 1986.
- Xavier Benedict, a character in Julia Golding's Finding Sky trilogy
- Xavier Chavez, a character in Saw II
- Xavier Riddle, the main character in the PBS Kids animated series Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
In other languages
- Javier
- Saverio
- Ksavierij
- Ksawery
- Xabere, Xabel
- Xabier
- Xavier
- Xaver
- Xavér
- Xaveriu
- Xaverius
- Xaveriοs or
- Ksaveras
