List of people from Lyon
This is a list of notable people associated with the French city of Lyon, Rhône.
Lyonnais natives
The city was the birthplace of the following people.
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(list sorted by surname)
- Éric Abidal (born 1979) – football player
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard (born 1957) – pianist
- André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) – physicist
- Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489)
- Pierre Autin-Grenier (born 1947) – writer
- Shlomo Aviner (born 1943) – religious Zionist rabbi
- Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776–1847) – Christian philosopher
- Azouz Begag (born 1957) – writer and politician
- Karim Benzema (born 1987) – football player
- Pierre Bouchet (1752-1794) – Hôtel-Dieu Head Surgeon
- Caracalla (186–217) – Roman Emperor
- David Charvet (born 1972) – actor and singer
- Claudius (10 BC–54 AD) – Roman Emperor
- André Coindre (1787–1826) – founder of the order of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart
- Clovis Cornillac (born 1967) – actor
- Pierre Coton (1564–1626) – Jesuit confessor to kings Henry IV and Louis XIII
- Youri Djorkaeff (born 1968) – football player
- Raymond Domenech (born 1952) – football trainer and manager
- Jules Favre (1809–1880) – republican statesman
- Florence Foresti (born 1973) – humorist
- Marie-France Gaîté (better known as Gribouille) (1941–1968) – singer
- Tony Garnier (1869–1948) – architect and utopian planner
- Joseph Gensoul (1797–1858) – surgeon
- Ludovic Giuly (born 1976) – football player
- Hector Guimard (1867–1942) – Art Nouveau architect
- Édouard Herriot (1872–1957) – French Prime Minister
- Maurice Herzog (born 1919) – mountaineer
- Jean Michel Jarre (born 1948) – musician
- Maurice Jarre (born 1924) – composer
- Stephane Javelle (1864–1917) – astronomer
- Allan Kardec (1804–1869) – systematizer of Spiritism
- Louise Labé (also identified as La Belle Cordière) (c. 1520–1566) – poet
- Bernard Lacombe (born 1952) – football player
- Mathias Loras (1792–1858) – first bishop of American colonial Dubuque, Iowa
- Claude Martin (1735–1800) – soldier, colonial official, and posthumous founder of La Martiniere College
- André Morellet (1727–1819) – economist and writer
- Olivier Panis (born 1966) – Formula One racing driver
- Gwendal Peizerat (born 1972) – ice dancer
- Dominique Perben (born 1945) – politician
- Abbé Pierre (Henri Antoine Grouès) (1912–2007) – founder of the Emmaus Mouvement
- Bernard Pivot (born 1935) – journalist
- Maximine Portaz (pseudonym of Savitri Devi) (1905–1982) – esoteric Hitlerist author
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) – painter
- François Rabelais (1494–1553) – writer
- Juliette Récamier (1777–1849) – socialite
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) – aviation pioneer and writer
- Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) – economist and businessman
- Maurice Scève (c. 1500–c. 1564) – poet
- Bertrand Tavernier (born 1941) – film director
- Abbé Terray (1715–1778) – controller general of finance under Louis XVI
- Jean-Claude Trichet (born 1942) – president of Banque de France and European Central Bank