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This is a list of famous people from Lyon and who had influence on the city:

Civil authorities, militaries, religious people

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Sovereigns

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Officially founded in -43 by Lucius Munatius Plancus, Lugdunum (Lyon) became the capital of the Gauls and was the place of two Roman emperors, then Clovis I's wife.

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Name Place of birth Date of birth Place of death Date of death Statut Image Caption
Clodius Albinus Hadrumetum in Tunisia 147 Lugdunum (Lyon) 197 Pretenders to the succession of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus Pence of Clodius Albinus
Caracalla Lugdunum (Lyon) 186 Near Harran in Turkey 217 Roman Emperor from 211 to 217, son of Septimius Severus Bust at the musée du Louvre
Claudius Lugdunum (Lyon) 10 BC]] Rome or Sinuessa in Italy 54 Roman Emperor Bust in Jupiter in marble circa 50
Clotilde Lyon ? circa 475 Tours circa 545 Clovis I's wife Scupulture, Notre-Dame de Corbeil, 12th century
Lucius Munatius Plancus ? 87 BC ? 15 BC Founder of Lugdunum in 43 BC Statue in the courtyard of the City Hall of Bâle

Politicians

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Name Place of birth Date of birth Place of death Date of death Statut Image Caption
André Pierre Étienne Abrial Paris 1783 ? ? General Commissioner of Lyon Police, appointed by Napoleon
Jean-Victor Augagneur Lyon 1855 Le Vésinet 1931 Politician, Lyon Mayor
Bernard Accoyer Lyon 1945 -- -- Politician
Antoine Avinin Lyon 1902 Massiac 1962 Politician, resistant
Édouard Aynard Lyon 1837 Paris 1913 Banker, politician, deputy of Lyon between 1889 and 1913 Le Pèlerin, 1902
Raymond Barre Saint-Denis, Réunion 1924 Paris 2007 Politician, Lyon Mayor
René Beaumont Lyon 1940 -- -- Politician, senator
Azouz Begag Lyon 1957 -- -- Politician Meeting of François Bayrou on 18 April 2007 at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy, during the presidential campaign
Pomponne de Bellièvre Lyon 1529 ? 1607 Chancellor of France Copper line engraving of Pompone de Bellièvre, c. 1760
Auguste Burdeau Lyon 1851 Paris 1894 Politician
Camille Jordan Lyon 1771 Paris 1821 Politician, journalist
Louis Buyat Lyon 1875 Chaponnay 1963 Politician
Francisque Collomb Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey 1910 ? 2009 Former Lyon Mayor
Gérard Collomb Chalon-sur-Saône 1947 -- -- Senator, Lyon Mayor
Alfred Elmiger Lyon 1886 Lyon 1958 Politician
Jules Favre Lyon 1809 Versailles 1880 Politician Photographed in 1865
Georges Fenech Sousse in Tunisia 1954 -- -- Politician, magistrate
Jean-Claude Fulchiron Lyon 1774 Paris 1859 Deputy of the Rhone, peer of France
Adolphe Messimy Lyon 1869 Charnoz 1935 Deputy of the Ain, Ministre de la Guerre
Henri Frenay Lyon 1905 Porto-Vecchio 1988 Politician, resistant
Justin Godart Lyon 1871 Paris 1956 Former Mayor of Lyon
Édouard Herriot Troyes 1872 1957 Saint-Genis-Laval Former Mayor of Lyon, minister
Pierre Mazeaud Lyon 1929 -- -- Lawyer, politician
Michel Noir Lyon 1944 -- -- Politician, former Mayor of Lyon
Jacques Pélissard Lyon 1946 -- -- Politician November 2005 at the 79th meeting of the Association des maires de France
Dominique Perben Lyon 1945 -- -- Politician
Louis Pradel Lyon 1906 Lyon 1976 Politician, former Mayor of Lyon
Maurice-René Simonnet Lyon 1919 Donzère 1988 Politician
Jacques Soustelle Montpellier 1912 Neuilly-sur-Seine 1990 Politician, anthropologist, member of the French Academy
Jacques Trémolin Lyon 1910 ? 1986 Politician, writer, resistant
Pierre Truche Lyon 1929 -- -- Magistrate
Laurent Wauquiez Lyon 1975 -- -- Politician In 2008

Militaries, resistants

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Name Place of birth Date of birth Place of death Date of death Statut Image Caption
Lucie Aubrac Mâcon 1912 Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 Resistant
Raymond Aubrac Vesoul 1914 -- -- Resistant At the meeting of Bertrand Delanoe in February 2008 at the Zénith of Paris
Jean-Pierre-Hippolyte Blandan Lyon 1819 Boufarik in Algeria 1842 Sergeant in the 26th Infantry Regiment
Boniface de Castellane Paris 1788 Lyon 1862 Marshal of France
Léonard Duphot Lyon 1769 Rome 1797 Brigadier general
Édouard Charlet Lyon 1873 battlefield in Champagne 1915 Commander in the 5th Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Zouaves
François de Neuville de Villeroi Lyon 1644 Paris 1730 Marshal of France
André Girard Cahors 1909 Lyon 1993 Resistant and director of the tobacco factory Officer card of André Girard - September 1944
Jean Moulin Béziers 1899 Near Metz 1943 Resistant
Louis Gabriel Suchet Lyon 1770 Marseille 1826 Marshal of France, Peerage of France

Religious people

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Name Place of birth Date of birth Place of death Date of death Statut Image Caption
Sidonius Apollinaris Lyon 430 Clermont-Ferrand 486 Chronicler, bishop of Clermont
Claude Dodieu Lyon ? ? Paris 1558 Bishop of Rennes, diplomat
David Feuerwerker Geneva in Switzerland 1912 Montréal in Canada 1980 Chief Rabbi of Lyon between 1944 and 1946
Maurice Gardès Lyon 1945 -- -- Archbishop of Auch
Robert Giscard Lyon 1923 ? 1993 Physician and member of the Taizé Community
Pauline-Marie Jaricot Lyon 1799 Lyon 1862 Founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Buried in the Église Saint-Nizier
Antoine Chevrier Lyon 1826 Lyon 1879 Priest founder of the work of Prado
Mathias Loras Lyon 1792 Dubuque in the US 1858 Missionary bishop in the US
Adolphe Perraud Lyon 1828 Autun 1906 Cardinal and historian, member of the French Academy
Abbé Pierre (aka Henri Grouès) Lyon 1912 Paris 2007 Capuchin monk and founder of the Companions of Emmaus
Eucherius of Lyon ? ? ? Circa 450 Bishop of Lyon from 435 to 450 Statue à l'entrée du village de Beaumont-de-Pertuis
St. Irénée Smyrne in Turkey Circa 130 Lyon 202 Second Bishop of Lyon (177-202), Father of the Church
St. Bonaventure Tuscany in Italy 1221 Lyon 1274 Papal legate at the Council of Lyon (1274). Nicknamed the "Seraphic Doctor" Bonaventura peint par Francisco de Zurbarán
Saint Agobard In Spain 779 Saintes 840 Bishop of Lyon (814-840) Agobard of Lyon saving the accused during the episode of "ships"
St. Rémy Lyon 852 Lyon 875 Bishop of Lyon. Should not be confused with the Remi de Reims (437-533)
Saint Pothinus In Anatolia ? Circa 87 Lyon 177 First bishop of Lyon, Christian martyr
St. Blandine In Anatolia ? ? Lyon 177 Christian martyr Fresco of the Orthodox Chapel of the Dormition of the Mother of God ( Drôme)
Peter Waldo Lyon Near 1140 Bohemia in Tcheque Republic Circa 1206 Founder of the sect of the Vaudois, also known as the "poor of Lyon". Excommunicated and banished. Statue of Peter Waldo on the Luther Memorial of Worms

Art

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