Bourgeois (surname)
Bourgeois is a French surname.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 49.6% of all known bearers of the surname Bourgeois were residents of France (frequency 1:1,819), 24.8% of the United States (1:19,760), 15.8% of Canada (1:3,157), 5.4% of Belgium (1:2,892) and 1.5% of Switzerland (1:7,254).
In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,819) in the following regions:[1]
- 1. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:548)
- 2. Guadeloupe (1:758)
- 3. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (1:914)
- 4. Centre-Val de Loire (1:1,127)
- 5. Hauts-de-France (1:1,238)
- 6. Grand Est (1:1,575)
- 7. Île-de-France (1:1,718)
- 8. Normandy (1:1,802)
People
- Albéric Bourgeois (1876–1962), Canadian comic strip artist
- Amandine Bourgeois (born 1979), French singer
- Brent Bourgeois, U.S. rock musician and producer
- Constant Bourgeois, French landscape painter and engraver
- Dana Bourgeois, luthier
- Derek Bourgeois (1941–2017), English composer
- Diane Bourgeois (born 1949), Canadian politician
- Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951), American sculptor and painter
- Émile Bourgeois (1857–1934), French historian
- Francis Bourgeois (1756–1811), landscape painter and court painter to George III
- Geert Bourgeois, Flemish politician
- Jason Bourgeois (born 1982), American baseball player
- Joël Bourgeois (born 1971), Canadian distance runner
- Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman
- Louis Bourgeois (architect) (1856–1930), architect
- Louis Bourgeois (composer) (c.1510–1560), aka Loys Bourgeois, French composer
- Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), artist and sculptor
- Paulette Bourgeois (born 1951), Canadian children's writer
- Roy Bourgeois, human rights activist
- Siméon Bourgeois (1815–1887), 19th century French Navy officer
- Victor Bourgeois, Belgian Modernist architect
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See also
- Philippe Bourgois, professor of anthropology and the author of ethnographic works
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