Famous Lyoneses

They are of Lyon or marked the town of their influence:

Civil authorities - Soldiers - Monk

Sovereigns

Lucius Munatius Plancus, ancient founder of Lyon (Lugdunum)
Clodius Albinus, claiming with the succession of the Severe Roman Emperor Septime
Caracalla (186 - 217) Roman Emperor from 211 to 217, wire of Severe Septime
Clothilde of Burgundy, woman of Clovis
Claude Ier (10 av. J. - C. - 54), Roman Emperor

Controlling, politicians

Count Andre-Pierre-Etienne Abrial, Police chief general of the Police force of Lyon, named by Napoleon i
Raymond Barre, (1924 - 2007) political, mayor of Lyon
Pomponne de Bellièvre (1529 - 1607) chancellor of France
Francisque Collomb, policy, mayor of Lyon
Gerard Collomb, policy, current mayor of Lyon
Jules Favre, policy
Georges Fenech, policy and magistrate
Jean-Claude Fulchiron (Lyon 1774 - Paris 1859), appointed of the Rhone, Even of France
Henri Frenay, policy
Justin Godart, policy, mayor of Lyon
Edouard Herriot, policy, mayor of Lyon
Michel Noir, policy, mayor of Lyon
Dominique Perben, policy
Louis Pradel, policy, mayor of Lyon
Jacques Soustelle, policy
Pierre Truche, magistrate

See also: List of the provosts of the merchants of Lyon , List of the mayors of Lyon

Soldiers, Resistant

Raymond Aubrac and Lucie Aubrac, resistant
Boniface de Castellane, Marshal of France
Léonard Duphot (1769 - 1797), brigadier general
Andre Girard, resisting and director of the manufacture of the tobaccos
Jean Moulin, resistant
Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France

Monk

Sidoine Apollinaire, chronicler, bishop of Clermont
Albert Decourtray (1917 - 1996), archbishop of Lyon and cardinal
Claude Dodieu, of a family Lyons patrician, bishop of Rennes and French diplomat of XVIe century
David Feuerwerker (1912 - 1980), Large-Rabbi of Lyon 1944-1946, born has Geneva
Robert Giscard, doctor and member of the Communauté of Taizé
Abbé Pierre --Henri Grouès--(1912 - 2007), monk Capuchin and founder of Emmaüs
Pauline-Marie Jaricot, founder of charity works
Adolphe Perraud, cardinal and historian, member of the French Academy
Pierre Valdo, merchant, founder of the Church of Vaud
Holy Eucher, évèque of Lyon from 435 to 450
Holy Irenee, second bishop of Lyon, Father of the Church
Holy Pothin (? - 177), first évèque of Lyon
Holy Blandine (? - 177): Christian martyrdom

See also: List of the archbishops of Lyon

Civil society

Michel Rousselot (Lyon 1943), trade unionist

Arts

Structure - Town planning

Ferdinand-Sigismond Delamonce (Munich 1678-Lyon 1753), architect
Charles Delfante, town planner
Philibert Delorme (Lyon towards 1510 - Paris 1570), architect Rebirth
Tony Garnier (Lyon 1869-Roquefort-the-Bédoule 1948), architect
Hector Guimard (Lyon 1867 - New York 1942), architect
Simon Maupin (beginning 17th century Lyon 1668), architect having exerted in Lyon
Jean-Antoine Morand de Jouffrey (Briançon 1727 - Lyon 1794), architect, painter and town planner
Antoine-Michel Perrache (1726 - 1779), sculptor and engineer, town planner

Sculpture

Joseph Chinard (1756 - 1813)
Guillaume Coustou
Nicolas Coustou
Antoine Coysevox (1640 - 1720)
Joseph-Hugues Fabisch (Aix-en-Provence 1812 - Lyon 1886)
François-Frederic Lemot (1771 - 1827)

Painting

the Lyons School and other Lyons artists

Joseph Guichard (1806-1880)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
Charles Philipon, draftsman, lithographer, journalist
Jean Seignemartin (1848-1875)
Nicolas Sicard, painter

Dance

Claude-François Ménestrier, theorist of the dance at the 17th century

Music

Classical music

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, pianist
Denis Dufour, (Lyon 1953), type-setter of Instrumental music, acousmatic electroacoustic and
Antoine-César Gautier de Montdorge (Lyon 1707,1768): librettist of opera.
Walter Gieseking, (Lyon 1895 - London 1956), type-setter and Franco-German pianist.
Maurice Guard hair (Lyon 1924), type-setter
Jean-Marie Leclair (Lyon 1697-Paris 1764), type-setter baroque
Jean-Baptiste Lemire (Colmar, Haut-Rhin 1867 it Arrow, the Sarthe 1945), type-setter and leader in this city
Commercial Louis, (Lyon 1669, Paris 1732), type-setter and harpsichordist and organist
Francis Popy (Lyon 1874 - Belleville 1928), type-setter of the Beautiful Time
Charles-Marie Widor, (Lyon 1844-Paris 1937), type-setter and organist

Current music

Jean Michel Guard hair (Lyon 1948), type-setter, musician.
the Business Louis' Trio, group of Lyons musicians
Liane Foly --Eliane Falliex-- (Lyon 1962), singer.
Kent --Herve Despesse-- (Lyon 1957), author, type-setter. Leader of the group Starshooter in 1980-85.
Andre Manoukian (Lyon 1957), composer-songwriter, arranger, pianist of jazz and variety.
Jean-Baptiste Maunier (Brignoles, VAr 1990) and the Small singers of Saint-Marc , chorus-singers.
the People of the Grass, group of Dub
High Thunders, group of Dub
Catherine Ribeiro (Lyon 1941), singer.
Louis Sclavis, saxophonist
Rachid Taha (Oran, Algeria 1958), singer of the group Residence permit in the years 1980 (resumption of the Sea of Charles Trénet)…
Kaly Live Dub, group of Dub

Letters

Archeology - History

Philippe Fabia, archeologist
German Camille of Montauzan, archeologist
Pierre Wuilleumier, archeologist

Printing works

Etienne Dolet
Sebastien Gryphe, humanistic Master-printer
Jean de Tournes

Literature

Henri Béraud, writer
Pierre Bertaux, Germanist
Jose de Bérys, writer
Marc Bloch, historian
Petrus Borel, writer
Gabriel Knight, writer
Frederic Dart, writer
Jerome Doucet journalist, writer
Marc Frangi, lawyer
Andre Latreille, historian
Louis Maynard (Lyon, 1871, Lyon, 1940), writer and historian
Pierre Molaine, Price Renaudot 1950
Juliette Récamier, woman of letters
Jean Reverzy, Price Renaudot 1954
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, writer and aviator
Valentine of Saint-Point, writer, poetess, playwright
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, writer
Jean Tricou, scholar, numismatist and heraldist

Philosophy

Savitri Devi, philosopher

Poetry

Others

Gilles Pollet, political economist

Cinema

Alexandre Astier (Lyon 1974), actor, realizer
Antoine Balpêtré (1898 - 1963), actor
Myriam Boyer (Lyon 1948), actress
Jacques Chambon, actor and director.
Clovis Cornillac (Lyon 1967), actor
Jean-Paul Civeyrac, scenario writer and realizer
Jacques Deray --Jacques Desrayaud-- (Lyon 1929-Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine 2003), scenario writer
Michele Girardon (Lyon 1938-id. 1975), actress
Christian Marin (Lyon 1929), actor
Bertrand Tavernier (Lyon 1941), scenario writer
Sylvie Testud, actress

Television - Radio - Theater - Spectacles

Jerome Bonaldi (Lyon 1952), chronicler, tele and radio organizer.
Sophie Favier (Lyon 1963), stimulating TV
Florence Foresti (Vénissieux, the Rhone 1973), humorist
Jacques Martin (1933-2007), organizer and producer of television
max Meynier (Lyon 1938-Neuilly/Seine, Hauts-de-Seine 2006), radio operator and tele organizer.
Laurent Mourguet, marionnettist, creator of Puppet
Bernard Pivot (1935, journalist, organizer and producer of television

Comic strip

Meat, draftsman

Data processing

Bruno Bonnell, founder of Infogrammes

Economy

Economists and financial

Raymond Barre, economist and politician (born with the Meeting)
Andre Morellet, economist
Jean-Baptiste Say, economist
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central bank

Industrialists and contractors

François Barthelemy Arlès-Dufour, silky commission agent
Jean-Michel Aulas (1949-), founder and chairman of CEGID and President of the Olympic Lyonese
Marius Berliet, car manufacturer
Paul Bocuse, large chief cook, 3 stars with the Guide Michelin since 1965
Jean Boiron, (1906-1996), pharmacist, founder of the Boiron Laboratories in 1932
Napoleon Bullukian (1905 Arménie-1984)
Short Luc, car manufacturer
Emile Guimet (1836 - 1918), industrialist and patron
Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor éponyme of the weaving loom
Brothers Light, Auguste Lumière and Louis Light, pioneers of the exploitation commercial of the Cinematography
Marcel Mérieux (1870 - 1937), biologist and his son Charles Mérieux, doctor
Jean Panzani (Giovanni) (1911-2003), founder of the company Panzani
Antoine Riboud (1918-2002), founder of BSN which will become groups it Danone

Sciences

Astronomy

Jean Chacornac, astronomer

Botany - Zoology

Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, botanist
Charles-Emile Lortet (1836-1909), doctor, botanist, zoologist, mountaineer; first senior of the Medical college of Lyon
François Rozier (1734 - 1793, botanist and agronomist

Mathematics

Girard Desargues (1591 - 1661), mathematician
Thomas Fantet de Lagny (1660 - 1734), mathematician, professor of hydrography, lawyer
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan, mathematician
Gabriel Sheep (1618 - 1694), mathematician
Jean-Etienne Montucla (1725 - 1799), astronomer and mathematician

Medicine

Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), Nobel Prize of medicine in 1912
Jean Brudon (1921-1992), former president about the French pharmacists
Marcel Dargent (1908-1972), gynecologist-obstetrician
Antoine Gailleton (1829-1904), doctor and mayor of Lyon
Theodore Herpin (1799 - 1865), doctor
Alexandre Lacassagne (1843-1924), pioneer of legal medicine
Rene Leriche (1879-1955), neurologist
Charles-Emile Lortet (1836-1909), doctor, botanist, zoologist, mountaineer; first senior of the Medical college of Lyon in 1877.
Léopold Ollier (1830-1900), surgeon having particularly developed the orthopedic surgery.
Marc-Antoine Petit (1766-1811), surgeon with the Hospital, founder of the Company of medicine of Lyon
Claude Pouteau (1724-1775), surgeon with the Hospital, hygienist. He described the fracture of Pouteau
François Rabelais (about 1493-1553), doctor of the Hôtel-Dieu, and writer
Philibert Sarrazin (XVIe century), doctor of the Hôtel-Dieu

Physics and chemistry

Andre-Marie Amp, physicist

Others

Laurent Clerk, cofounder of the first school for deaf persons in North America
Albert Jacquard (1925), scientist, humanistic, essay writer and geneticist
Allan Kardec, pseudonym of Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail
Alexandre Lacassagne (1843 - 1924), one of the founders of the criminal anthropology
Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818), engineer and cofounder of the polytechnic school

Sports

Tennis shoe

Box

Fabrice Tiozzo

Cycling

Football

Jean-Michel Aulas (1949-), founder and chairman of CEGID and President of the Olympic Lyonese
Raymond Domenech, former footballer, selector of the team of France since July 2004.
Ludovic Giuly, footballer
Fleury Di Nallo, footballer
Bernard Lacombe, footballer, better striker of the championship of France (255 goals)
Bruno Gotty, footballer
Sabri Lamouchi, footballer
Grégory Coupet, footballer, goalkeeper
Sony Anderson, footballer
Juninho Pernambucano, footballer
Eric Abidal, footballer
Frederic Kanouté, footballer
Florian Maurice, footballer
Shine Fernandez, footballer
Karim Benzema, footballer

Formulate 1

Olivier Panic grass, pilot of F1
Eugene Chaboud, pilot of F1

Judo

Djamel Bouras, judoka

Ski - Ice - Mountain

Maurice Herzog, mountaineer
Gwendal Peizerat and Marina Anissina, skaters artistic, gold medals with the OJ of Salt Lake City in 2002 in dance.

Rugby

Sylvain Marconnet, rugby player
Pascal Papé, rugby player

Tennis

Henri Cockerel, one of the Four Musketeers

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