List of people from Lyon

This is a list of notable people associated with the French city of Lyon, Rhône.

(list sorted by surname)

Eric 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
Joanny Augier (1813–1855) – French playwright and journalist, born and died in Lyon
Shlomo Aviner (born 1943) – religious Zionist rabbi
Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776–1847) – Christian philosopher
Alphonse Balleydier (1810–1859) – historiographer
Frederique Bangue – athlete
Raymond Barre – French politician
David Bedok – footballer
Azouz Begag (born 1957) – writer and politician
Karim Benzema (born 1987) – football player
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1823–1887) – painter
Paul Bocuse (born 1926) – prominent chef (recipient of the "Chef of the Century" award);
Jean-François Bony (1754–1825) – artist
Pierre Bouchet (1752–1794) – Hôtel-Dieu Head Surgeon
Caracalla (186–217) – Roman Emperor
Marie Charbonnel (1880–1969) – opera singer
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
Gérard Collomb – politician and current mayor of Lyon;
Clovis Cornillac (born 1967) – actor
Pierre Coton (1564–1626) – Jesuit confessor to kings Henry IV and Louis XIII
Natalie Dessay – opera singer
Youri Djorkaeff (born 1968) – football player
Raymond Domenech (born 1952) – football trainer and manager
Hubert Dupont (Born 1980) – professional cyclist
Jules Favre (1809–1880) – republican statesman
Liane Foly – singer, humorist and actress
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
Éric Guirado – film director and writer
Théodore Herpin (1799–1865) – physician known for his work involving epilepsy
Édouard Herriot (1872–1957) – French Prime Minister
Maurice Herzog (1919–2012) – mountaineer
Irenaeus (2nd century AD – 202) – Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul and early Christian martyr
Jean-Michel Jarre (born 1948) – musician
Louis Jalabert (1877–1943) – Jesuit archaeologist ans epigrapher
Maurice Jarre (born 1924) – composer
Stephane Javelle (1864–1917) – astronomer
Allan Kardec (1804–1869) – systematizer of Spiritism
Katsuni – pornographic actress
Jérôme Kerviel – trader
Seyhan Kurt – poet, writer
Louise Labé (also identified as La Belle Cordière) (c. 1520–1566) – poet
Alexandre Lacassagne – criminologist
Alexandre Lacazette – football player
Bernard Lacombe (born 1952) – football player
Madeleine Lavigne (born 1912) – French resistance and agent for the Special Operations Executive in World War II
Edmond Locard – pioneer in forensic science
Mathias Loras (1792–1858) – first bishop of American colonial Dubuque, Iowa
Auguste and Louis Lumière – inventors of cinematograph
André Manoukian – musician
Claude Martin (1735–1800) – soldier, colonial official, and posthumous founder of La Martiniere College
Jean-Baptiste Maunier – actor
Louis Maynard (1871–1940) – writer and local historian
André Morellet (1727–1819) – economist and writer
Jean Moulin – hero and leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War
Émile Ntamack – rugby union player
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
Adrien Rougier (1892–1984) – organist, composer and conductor
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
Louis Gabriel Suchet – marshal of France, one of Napoleon's greatest generals
Bertrand Tavernier (born 1941) – film director
Sylvie Testud – actress
Jean-Marc Théolleyre (1924–2011) – journalist, 1959 Prix Albert Londres winner
Jean-Yves Thibaudet – pianist
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
Samuel Umtiti (born 1993) – football player
André César Vermare (1869–1949) – sculptor
Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) – organist, composer and conductor
Frank Rivoire (also known as Danger) (born 1984) – electronic musician
Mike Lévy (also known as Gesaffelstein) (born 1985) – electronic musician
Anthoine Hubert (1996–2019) – racing driver