Renier

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Renier or Rénier may refer to:

Given name:

  • Renier Botha (born 1992), South African rugby union player
  • Renier Coetzee PS, General Officer in the South African Army
  • François Renier Duminy (1747–1811), French mariner, navigator, cartographer and South African pioneer
  • Renier Erasmus, South African rugby union player
  • Renier de Huy, 12th-century metalworker and sculptor
  • Renier of St Laurent (died 1188), twelfth-century Benedictine monk of St Laurent Abbey, Liège
  • Giustina Renier Michiel (1755–1832), aristocratic woman who helped intellectual and social Venetian life flourish
  • Renier I of Montferrat (1084–1135), ruler of the state of Montferrat in north-west Italy from about 1100 to his death
  • Renier of Montferrat (1162–1183), the fifth son of William V of Montferrat and Judith of Babenberg
  • Renier Schoeman (born 1983), South African rugby union player
  • Jan Renier Snieders (1812–1888), Flemish writer, brother of August Snieders
  • Renier of Trit, the first Frankish duke of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv, Bulgaria) from 1204 to 1205
  • Renier van Tzum (1600–1670), merchant/trader and official of the Dutch East India Company
  • Renier Vázquez (born 1979), Spanish chess player, Grand Master in 2007
  • Renier Zen (died 1268), the 45th Doge of Venice, reigning from January 1, 1253, until his death in 1268

Surname:

Geography:

  • Renier Point (6094–6094), the east extremity of both Burgas Peninsula and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

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