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Voltaire is the pen name of French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet.
Voltaire may also refer to:
Places
- Voltaire, North Dakota, a city in the United States
- Voltaire (crater), an impact crater on the Martian moon Deimos
- 5676 Voltaire, an asteroid
Ships
- French battleship Voltaire, a Danton-class pre-dreadnought battleship
- Voltaire, one of the names of the French ship Viala (1795), a ship of the line
Other uses
- Voltaire (given name)
- Boulevard Voltaire, a boulevard in Paris
- Voltaire (Paris Métro), a Paris Métro station
- Voltaire (film), a 1933 biographical film starring George Arliss as the French writer and philosopher
- Voltaire (show jumping horse), an influential sire of show jumpers and dressage horses
- Le Voltaire (newspaper), a French daily newspaper established in 1878
- Voltaire (racehorse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
- Voltaire, a computer network equipment manufacturer acquired by Mellanox Technologies in 2010
- Voltaire Network, an international non-profit organization
- Aurelio Voltaire, Cuban-American musician
See also
- Voltaire Foundation, at the University of Oxford, U.K.
- Voltaire Human Rights Awards, given by Liberty Victoria, Australia
- Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Differences, given by the University of Potsdam, Germany
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