Philip Leo O'Reilly
Leo O'Reilly( born April 10, 1944), D.D., is the emeritus Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kilmore.
Philip Leo Sullivan
Philip Leo Sullivan( October 2, 1889 – June 12, 1960) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Ferdinand Lemaire
Ferdinand Lemaire( 1832–1879) was a French librettist and poet, best known for writing the libretto of Camille Saint- Saëns's opera" Samson et Dalila".
Lemaire was a creole, originally from Martinique, and had married a cousin of Saint- Saëns's wife.
Saint- Saëns had previously set two of his poems, “ Souvenance ” and “ Tristesse ”, for voice and piano.
Approached by the composer to write an oratorio on the story of Samson and Delilah, Lemaire agreed, but only if the work was to be an opera.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Auguste von Müller
Auguste von Müller( 1848- 1912) was a nineteenth- century German operatic mezzo- soprano and actress.
She is best remembered today for originating the role of Dalila in the world premiere of Camille Saint- Saëns's" Samson et Dalila" in 1877.
Andrew-John Smith
Andrew- John Smith is an English church musician, concert organist and conductor.
Between 2008 and 2012, he recorded the complete organ works by Camille Saint- Saëns in three volumes.
Since 1997, he has been director of music at St Peter's, Eaton Square.
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), "Danse macabre" (1874), the opera "Samson and Delilah" (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and "The Carnival of the Animals" (1886).
Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten.
After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire.
After leaving the post twenty years later, he was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas.
As a young man, Saint-Saëns was enthusiastic for the most modern music of the day, particularly that of Schumann, Liszt and Wagner, although his own compositions were generally within a conventional classical tradition.
He was a scholar of musical history, and remained committed to the structures worked out by earlier French composers.
This brought him into conflict in his later years with composers of the impressionist and dodecaphonic schools of music; although there were neoclassical elements in his music, foreshadowing works by Stravinsky and Les Six, he was often regarded as a reactionary in the decades around the time of his death.
Saint-Saëns held only one teaching post, at the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris, and remained there for less than five years.
It was nevertheless important in the development of French music: his students included Gabriel Fauré, among whose own later pupils was Maurice Ravel.
Both of them were strongly influenced by Saint-Saëns, whom they revered as a genius.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Camille Decreus
Camille Decreus, sometimes written as Camille DeCreus or Camille de Creus( 23 September 1876 – 26 September 1939) was a French composer and pianist.
Jean-Philippe Collard
Jean- Philippe Collard( born 27 January 1948) is a French pianist known for his interpretations of the works of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint- Saëns.

Question: Was Philip Leo O'Reilly or Camille Saint-Saëns born first?
Answer: Camille Saint-Saëns