- Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier was a noted architect and city planner. He is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects. In 1901, after extensive study of sociological and architectural problems, he began to formulate an elaborate solution to the perceived issues and published his treatise "Une cité industrielle" in 1918. He was most active in his hometown of Lyon.
- Raymond Domenech
Raymond Domenech (born January 24, 1952 in Lyon) is a former French football player and the current manager of the French national team. He is of partly Southern Catalan descent. His father fled Spain during the rule of Francisco Franco.
- Caracalla
Caracalla (April 4, 186 - April 8, 217), born Septimius Bassanius and later called Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus, was the eldest son of Septimius Severus and Roman Emperor from 211 - 217. He secured his throne by murdering his brother Geta, along with many of his supporters. Caracalla 's reign is known for, * the "Constitutio Antoniniana", …
- Bernard Lacombe
Bernard Lacombe (born august 15, 1952 in Lyon) is a former football (soccer) player from France. He played forward, mainly with Olympique Lyonnais, FC Girondins de Bordeaux and the French national team.
- Jean Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is highly regarded as one of the pioneers in the Electronic and New Age music genres, as well as the organiser of record-breaking outdoor spectacles of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, linking music with the surrounding environment and architecture. Jarre has sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles over his career.
- Youri Djorkaeff
Youri Djorkaeff (born March 9, 1968 in Lyon) is a former French football (soccer) player, who played as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. He had fantastic technique, pace and fancy and effective dribbling. With the French national team, Djorkaeff won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000.
- Éric Abidal
Éric Abidal is a left-sided French football defender of Martiniquean descent who currently plays for FC Barcelona in La Liga.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (pronounced) (June 29 1900 - presumably July 31 1944) was a French writer and aviator. One of his most famous works is "Le Petit Prince" ("The Little Prince"). He disappeared on the night of July 31, 1944 while flying on a mission to collect data on German troop movements.
- Peter Waldo
Peter Waldo or Valdo or Pierre de Vaux (died 1218) was the founder of a radical ascetic Christian movement in 12th-century France. Specific details of his life are largely unknown. It is believed that he was a rich merchant in Lyon making his money by "wicked usury", when around 1160 he was transformed into a radical Christian and gave his real estate to his wife, and the remainder of his belongings he distributed as alms to the poor.
- Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, September 13, 1924) is a French composer and conductor. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean -- "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), and "A Passage to India" (1984). All three of these scores won Academy Awards. His other notable scores include The Message (1976), …
- André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère, was a French physicist who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.
- Abbé Pierre
L'Abbé Pierre was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during the World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). He founded in 1949 the Emmaus movement, which has the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. "Abbé" means abbot in French, and is also used as a courtesy title given to Catholic priests. He was one of the most popular figures in France, but had his name removed from such polls after some time.
- Epipodius
Saint Epipodius (Epipode) and his companion Alexander (d. 178 AD) are venerated as Christian saints. Their feast day is April 22. Epipodius was a native of Lyon; Alexander was said to be of Greek origin. They were both martyred during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Epipodius and Alexander are said to have been close friends since childhood. Epipodius is said to have been a confirmed celibate bachelor, …
- Louise Labé
Louise Labé, also identified as La Belle Cordière, was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet. A recent book has argued that she was not an actual historical person, but a feminist creation of a number of French poets of the Renaissance (see below).
- Jules Favre
Jules Claude Gabriel Favre was a French statesman. He was born in Lyon, and began his career as an advocate. From the time of the revolution of 1830, he openly declared himself a republican, and in political trials he took the opportunity to express this opinion. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected deputy for Lyon to the Constituent Assembly, where he sat among the moderate republicans, voting against the socialists.
- Jacques Martin
Jacques Martin is a French TV host and producer. In the late sixties he formed a comical duet of hosts on radio Europe 1 with French actor Jean Yanne. In the beginning of the seventies, he was the sidekick of Danièle Gilbert, the host of the early afternoon show "Midi Première". Then Jacques Martin created and hosted popular satirical TV shows such as "Le Petit Rapporteur" (The little snitch, 1975 - 1976, TF1) and "La Lorgnette" (1976 - 1977, …
- Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier (b. April 25, 1941 in Lyon) is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He was married to Colo O'Hagen from 1965 to 1980. His son, Nils Tavernier (b. September 1, 1965), works as both a director and actor.
- Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard (Lyon, March 10 1867 - New York, May 20 1942) was an architect, who is widely considered today to be the most prominent representative of the French Art Nouveau movement of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Guimard did not originally have such a high reputation, because he did not have any followers; however, recently, …
- Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912. He was also a member of Jacques Doriot's Parti Populaire Français (PPF), the most collaborationist party during Vichy France.
- Olivier Panis
Olivier Panis, born in Oullins, Lyon, 2 September, 1966, is a retired French Formula One racing driver. Panis, like most drivers, raced karts early in his career. After graduating from karts, Olivier raced several years in a number of "junior" series before racing in French Formula 3. He won a championship in that series in 1991. He eventually found himself in Formula 3000, and he won the series' championship there in 1993.
- Gribouille
Marie-France Gaîté, a singer better known as Gribouille, was born on July 17, 1941 in Lyon, France and died on January 18, 1968 in Paris, France. Gaîté had a very difficult life. As teenager, she suffered from mental illness and for a time was confined to a psychiatric hospital in Lyon. With medication, she was able to function well enough to leave her hometown to go to Paris. There, she met Jean Cocteau who got her work singing in a cabaret.
- Maurice Scève
Maurice Scève, French poet, was born at Lyon, where his father practised law. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch. This spiritual love, which animated Antoine Héroet's "Parfaicte Amye" (1543) as well, owed much to Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine translator and commentator of Plato's works.
- Bernard Pivot
"Bernard Pivot" is a journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes. He is a member of the Académie Goncourt.
- Carl Medjani
Carl Medjani (born May 15, 1985 in Lyon) is a French football player with Lorient. His parents are of Algerian origin. After spending his youth development years at Saint-Étienne he was signed by Liverpool's manager Gérard Houllier in August 2003. Liverpool beat off stiff competition from Premiership rivals Arsenal, Manchester United and German giants Bayern Munich to secure his services.
- Agobard
Agobard was a Carolingian prelate and Archbishop of Lyon. We know nothing of his early life nor of his descent. In 813 he became coadjutor to Leidrad, Archbishop of Lyon. On Leidrad's death in 816 he succeeded him in as bishop. Agobard pursued the same vigorous policy as his predecessor, who had been one of Charlemagne's most active agents in the reformation of the Church.
- Louis Sclavis
Louis Sclavis (b. Lyon, France, February 2, 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz. His music shows great creativity and a lively sense of humor. Sclavis began his musical education at the "conservatoire de Lyon" at age 9, where he studied clarinet. He began performing with the Lyon Workshop, where he met Michel Portal and Bernard Lubat.
- Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 - November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favour of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. He created Say's law, which is often quoted incorrectly as "supply creates its own demand".
- Georges Goven
Georges Goven is a retired tennis player from France. Goven won the French Championships junior title in 1964, 1965, and 1966, and the Australian Championships juniors in 1964. He reached the semifinals in both singles and doubles (partnering Francois Jauffret) at the 1970 French Open. Goven has coached such players as Nicolas Escudé, Nathalie Dechy and Tatiana Golovin.
- Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec was a pseudonym of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail. Rivail was determined to understand exactly what was causing the physical effects popularly attributed to spirits. As an academic with a scientific background, Rivail decided to do his own research. Not being a medium himself, he compiled a list of questions and began working with mediums and channelers to pose them to spirits.
- Mathias Loras
Bishop Mathias Loras (August 30 1792 - February 20 1858) was a French priest who later became the first Bishop of the Dubuque Diocese in what would become the state of Iowa. Bishop Loras would guide the new diocese during its formative years.
- Paul Couturier
Paul Irénée Couturier was a French priest and a promoter of the concept of Christian unity. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. He was born and educated in educated at Lyon, France, to a family with some Jewish blood. He was raised in Algeria, among the largely Muslim population there, but later returned and was ordained to the priesthood in 1906 as a member of the Society of St. Irenaeus.
- Clovis Cornillac
Clovis Cornillac is a French theater, television and cinema actor.
- Fleury di Nallo
Fleury Di Nallo, (born 20 April, 1943, in Lyon, France) is a former footballer, one of the best strikers in Division 1 in the 1960's and 1970's, and a historic player of Olympique Lyonnais.
- Joseph Marie Jacquard
Joseph Marie Jacquard was a straw hat maker before becoming a French silk weaver and inventor, who improved on the original punched card design of Jacques de Vaucanson's loom of 1745, to invent the Jacquard loom mechanism in 1804-1805. Jacquard's loom mechanism is controlled by recorded patterns of holes in a string of cards, and allows, what is now known as, the Jacquard weaving of intricate patterns. Jacquard died at Oullins (Rhóne), 7 August 1834.
- Philibert de L'Orme
Philibert de l'Orme (c. 1510 - January 8, 1570) was a French architect, one of the great masters of the Renaissance. He was born at Lyon, the son of Jehan de l'Orme, who practised the same art and brought his son up to it. At an early age Philibert was sent to Italy to study (1533-1536) and was employed there by Pope Paul III. Returning to France he was patronized by Cardinal du Bellay at Lyon, and was sent by him about 1540 to Paris, where he began the Chateau de St Maur, …
- Cyril Chapuis
Cyril Chapuis (born 21 March, 1979 in Lyon) is a French football player. He currently plays for Grenoble.
- Jules Perrot
Jules-Joseph Perrot was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including "Pas de Quatre", "La Esmeralda", "Ondine", and "Giselle" with Jean Coralli.
- Philip V of France
Philip V (17 November 1293 - 3 January 1322), called the Tall (French: "le Long"), was King of France and Navarre (as Philip II) and Count of Champagne from 1316 to his death, and the second to last of the House of Capet. He was born in Lyon, the second son of King Philip IV and Jeanne of Navarre. Philip V became regent for his infant nephew King John I, and when John lived only a few days, he proclaimed himself king.
- Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (March 23, 1809 - March 21, 1864), French painter, was born at Lyon.
- Charles-Marie Widor
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 - March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher.