This is a list of famous people from Lyon and who had influence on the city:
Civil authorities, militaries, religious people
editSovereigns
editOfficially 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.
width="100%"| Name | Place of birth | Date of birth | Place of death | Date of death | Statut | Image | Caption |
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| 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 | 
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Bust at the musée du Louvre |
| Claudius | Lugdunum (Lyon) | 10 BC]] | Rome or Sinuessa in Italy | 54 | Roman Emperor | 
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Bust in Jupiter in marble circa 50 |
| Clotilde | Lyon ? | circa 475 | Tours | circa 545 | Clovis I's wife | 
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Scupulture, Notre-Dame de Corbeil, 12th century |
| Lucius Munatius Plancus | ? | 87 BC | ? | 15 BC | Founder of Lugdunum in 43 BC | 
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Statue in the courtyard of the City Hall of Bâle |
Politicians
edit| Name | Place of birth | Date of birth | Place of death | Date of death | Statut | Image | Caption |
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| 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 | 
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| Antoine Avinin | Lyon | 1902 | Massiac | 1962 | Politician, resistant | ||
| Édouard Aynard | Lyon | 1837 | Paris | 1913 | Banker, politician, deputy of Lyon between 1889 and 1913 | 
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Le Pèlerin, 1902 |
| Raymond Barre | Saint-Denis, Réunion | 1924 | Paris | 2007 | Politician, Lyon Mayor | 
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| René Beaumont | Lyon | 1940 | -- | -- | Politician, senator | ||
| Azouz Begag | Lyon | 1957 | -- | -- | Politician | 
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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 | 
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Copper line engraving of Pompone de Bellièvre, c. 1760 |
| Auguste Burdeau | Lyon | 1851 | Paris | 1894 | Politician | ||
| Camille Jordan | Lyon | 1771 | Paris | 1821 | Politician, journalist | .png)
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| 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 | 
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| Alfred Elmiger | Lyon | 1886 | Lyon | 1958 | Politician | ||
| Jules Favre | Lyon | 1809 | Versailles | 1880 | Politician | 
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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 | 
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| 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 | 
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| Pierre Mazeaud | Lyon | 1929 | -- | -- | Lawyer, politician | ||
| Michel Noir | Lyon | 1944 | -- | -- | Politician, former Mayor of Lyon | ||
| Jacques Pélissard | Lyon | 1946 | -- | -- | Politician | 
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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 | 
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In 2008 |
Militaries, resistants
edit| Name | Place of birth | Date of birth | Place of death | Date of death | Statut | Image | Caption |
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| Lucie Aubrac | Mâcon | 1912 | Issy-les-Moulineaux | 2007 | Resistant | 
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| Raymond Aubrac | Vesoul | 1914 | -- | -- | Resistant | 
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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 | 
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| 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 | 
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| André Girard | Cahors | 1909 | Lyon | 1993 | Resistant and director of the tobacco factory | 
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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 | 
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Religious people
edit| Name | Place of birth | Date of birth | Place of death | Date of death | Statut | Image | Caption |
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| 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 | 
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| Adolphe Perraud | Lyon | 1828 | Autun | 1906 | Cardinal and historian, member of the French Academy | 
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| 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 | 
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| St. Irénée | Smyrne in Turkey | Circa 130 | Lyon | 202 | Second Bishop of Lyon (177-202), Father of the Church | 
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| St. Bonaventure | Tuscany in Italy | 1221 | Lyon | 1274 | Papal legate at the Council of Lyon (1274). Nicknamed the "Seraphic Doctor" | 
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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 | 
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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. | 
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Statue of Peter Waldo on the Luther Memorial of Worms |