List of people from Lyon

List of people from Lyon

The long list of notable native "Lyonnais" includes:
*Florence Foresti (1973- ), french Humorist
*Éric Abidal (1979- ), football player
*Pierre-Laurent Aimard (1957-), Pianist
*André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836), physicist
*Pierre Autin-Grenier, (1947-), writer
*Shlomo Aviner (1943- ), Religious Zionist rabbi
*Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776-1847), Christian philosopher
*Azouz Begag (1957- ), writer and politician
*Karim Benzema, (1987-), football player
*Caracalla (186-217), Roman emperor
*David Charvet (1972- ), actor and singer
*Claudius (10 BC-54 AD), Roman emperor
*Pierre Coton (1564-1626), Jesuit confessor to kings Henry IV and Louis XIII
*André Coindre (1787-1826), founder of the order of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart
*Clovis Cornillac (1967- ), French actor
*Youri Djorkaeff (1968- ), football player
*Raymond Domenech (1952- ), football trainer and manager
*Jules Favre (1809-1880), republican statesman
*Tony Garnier (1869-1948), architect and utopian planner
*Marie-France Gaîté (Gribouille) (1941-1968), singer
*Ludovic Giuly (1976- ), football player
*Hector Guimard (1867-1942), Art Nouveau architect
*Édouard Herriot (1872-1957), Prime Minister of France
*Maurice Herzog (1919- ), mountaineer
*Jean Michel Jarre (1948- ), musician
*Maurice Jarre (1924- ), composer
*Stephane Javelle (1864-1917), astronomer
*Allan Kardec (1804-1869), systematizer of spiritism
*Louise Labé (ca. 1520-1566), poet called "La Belle Cordière"
*Bernard Lacombe (1952- ), football player
*Mathias Loras (1792-1858), first bishop of 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 (1966- ), Formula One racing driver
*Dominique Perben (1945- ), politician
*Abbé Pierre (Henri Antoine Grouès) (1912-2007), founder of the Emmaus movement
*Bernard Pivot (1935- ), journalist
*Maximine Portaz, pseudonyme Savitri Devi (1905-1982), esoteric Hitlerist author
*Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), painter
*François Rabelais (1494-1553), writer
*Juliette Récamier (1777-1849), French socialite
*Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), aviation pioneer and writer
*Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), French economist and businessman
*Maurice Scève (c. 1500-c. 1564), 16th century poet
*Sidonius Apollinaris (430-489)
*Bertrand Tavernier (1941- ), movie director
*Abbé Terray (1715-1778), controller general of finance under Louis XVI
*Jean-Claude Trichet (1942- ), president of Banque de France and European Central Bank
*Madeleine Ravel
*John Duncan, Scottish philosopher and philanthropist

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