Madagascar Help?

Question

I'm doing a project on Madagascar but I can't find anything on famous people there. Can somebody please help me? Thank you!!

Answer 1

THE LEMURS FROM MADAGASCAR ( the movie) lol but really i dont think anyone important came from there

Answer 2

1. Simon, Claude (Eugène Henri) (1913-2005 )

Novelist, born in Tananarive, C Madagascar. He was educated at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge universities, fought in World War 2, and later earned a living producing wine at Salses. His novels include Le Vent (1957, The Wind), L'Herbe (1958, The Grass), and - part of a four-volume cycle - La Route des Flandres (1960, The Flanders Road). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985.

2. Bayle, François (1932– )

French composer, born in Antananarivo (formerly Tananarive), Madagascar. He studied music in Bordeaux, then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Messiaen (1959) and in Darmstadt with Stockhausen, and joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1960–2) with Pierre Schaeffer, of which he later became director (from 1966). He was also founder of Musique Plus (1973–8). His music uses Martenot waves, tape recorders, and sound projection, as in Cristal (1977). In 1973 he invented music for the acousmonium and experimented with an orchestra of loudspeakers in which the listener cannot identify the origin of the sound that is heards. His works include Motion, Motion (1986) and Musique Acousmatique proposition position (1993).

3. Ravalomanana, Marc (Current Madagascar President)

Has been a catalyst for his country in reform and progress.