René Girard (footballer)
René Girard( born 4 April 1954) is a French football manager and former player.
Jean-Michel Oughourlian
Jean- Michel Oughourlian( born 20 August 1940) is an Armenian- French neuropsychiatrist and psychologist as well as a writer and philosopher recognized both in France and the United States for his collaboration with René Girard and his work on the mimetic theory of desire.
Since the early 1970s he has devoted both his clinical work and his research to applying and developing Girard's theories in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and psychopathology.
He is the author of several books( see below), in which he developed clinical points of view around mimetic theory of desire.
He is currently the President of the Association of Doctors of the American Hospital of Paris, as well as an honorary member of the Association Recherches Mimétiques, whose goal is to structure research linked to René Girard's mimetic theory and to make the theory more widely known in French- speaking countries.
Jean- Michel Oughourlian is Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Republic of Armenia.
He is involved in the fight against poverty, exclusion, and sickness through the defense of the physical, psychological, and spiritual integrity of individuals.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Georges Wambst
Georges Eugène Wambst( 21 July 1902 – 1 August 1988) was a French cyclist.
He won the Gold Medal in Team road race along with Armand Blanchonnet and René Hamel in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
René Girard
René Noël Théophile Girard( 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy.
Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains.
Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on his work and his influence on disciplines such as literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, psychology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy.
Girard's main contribution to philosophy, and in turn to other disciplines, was in the field of epistemological and ethical systems of desire.
Girard believed that human development occurs initially through a process of observational mimicry, where the infant develops desire through a process of learning to copy adult behaviour, fundamentally linking acquisition of identity, knowledge and material wealth to the development of a desire to have something others possess.
All conflict, competition and rivalry therefore originate in mimetic desire( mimetic rivalry), which eventually reaches destructive stages of conflict both between individuals and social groups that requires them to blame someone or something in order to diffuse conflict through the scapegoat mechanism.
Unable to assume responsibility or engage in self- reflection to recognize their own part in the conflict, humans individually and cross-tribally unite, of diffuse conflict, by murdering the king or whoever appears to have the least support in the conflict, and then recognizing when the person died how much less stress they have, and the unification leads to them eventually thinking of the deposed dead king as god, ie. deification or sanctification.
Or, guilt is ascribed to an innocent third- party, whose murder permits the creation of a common unifying mythological underlay necessary for the foundation of human culture.
For Girard, religion and mythology were therefore necessary steps in human evolution to control the violence that arises from mimetic rivalry and unequal distribution of desirable things.
Religion directed the scapegoat impulse on imaginary concepts, such as Satan or demons, the absence of which would see an increase in human conflict, according to Girard.
His ideas ran sharply contrary to the post-modernism in vogue through most of his life, and his views of human nature were pessimistic in contrast with the mainstream currents of his time.
Girard saw religion as an essential instrument of cohesion, believing that the primary purpose of sacred texts was to end the practice of human sacrifice through ritualistically surrogating for the behaviour triggered by scapegoat mechanism, adopting and expanding many of Nietzsche's ideas.
Girard was professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1957 to 1981, and subsequently at Stanford University where he was named special fellow of the Hoover Institution, a conservative think- tank based at Stanford.
For his contributions, in 2005 Rene Girard was named as one of the 40" Les immortals" members of the Académie française.
Robert Hamerton-Kelly
Robert Gerald Hamerton- Kelly( December 26, 1938 – July 7, 2013) was a Christian theologian, ordained United Methodist pastor, ethics scholar, and author and editor of several books on religion and violence.
He served as Dean of the Chapel at Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University for 14 years and was on the faculty of the university for more than 30 years.
A leading advocate of the work of René Girard's theory of mimetic desire, Hamerton- Kelly co-founded several organizations dedicated to the study of the theory and edited several important texts about it.
James Alison
James Alison( born October 10, 1959) is a laicized English Roman Catholic priest and theologian.
He was ordained in 1988 and was a member of the Dominican Order until his excardination in 1995.
He is noted for his application of René Girard's anthropological theory to Christian systematic theology and for his work on LGBT issues.
He identifies as gay.
M. V. Dhurandhar
Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar( 18 March 1867 – 01 June 1944) was noted Indian painter from the British colonial era. and postcard artist.
His illustrations of women of that era doing their daily chores are especially popular.
René Girard (footballer)
René Girard( born 4 April 1954) is a French football manager and former player.
Pascal Baills
Pascal Baills( born 30 December 1964) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
He won one cap for the French national team.
He became assistant coach to Jean- Francois Domergue and subsequently Rolland Courbis at Montpellier HSC.
In 2009, he became assistant to Montpellier's coach René Girard and the club won the championship of France in 2012.

Question: Did M. V. Dhurandhar and René Girard share the same nationality?
Answer: no