John Calvin
John Calvin was born July 10, 1509, in Noyon, France. A theologian [a person who engages or is an expert in theology (the study of God and of God's relation to the world)] and ecclesiastical (of or relating to the Christian Church or its clergy) statesman, he was leading French Protestant Reformer and the most important figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. His interpretation of Christianity and the institutional and social patterns he worked out for Geneva (city in Switzerland) influenced Protestantism elsewhere in Europe and in North America
Huguenot
(n.) A French Protestant, usually Calvinist (follower of John Calvin), of the 16th or 17th centuries.