List of people from Lyon
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The long list of notable native Lyonnais includes:
- 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
See also: Category:People from Lyon
