- 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), … - David Charvet
David Charvet (born David Franck Guez on May 15, 1972 in Lyon, France) is an actor and singer. David's father is Tunisian-born French-Jewish businessman Paul Guez. His mother, Christiane Charvet is of French ancestry and was born in France. He and his siblings grew up speaking French as their first language. When David was nine years-old, his parents split and he moved with his father to the United States. - Rachid Taha
Rachid Taha is a French-Algerian musician. His music is influenced by many different styles such as raï, techno, rock and punk. Based in Paris, France where he began his solo career after his beginnings as the leader of the French rock band "Carte de Séjour", he usually sings in Arabic. Taha moved from Algeria to Alsace and then Vosges, France, where his father had already emigrated, in 1970. In 1981, while living in Lyon, France, Taha met Mohammed and Moktar Amini. - 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. - Ali Boulala
Ali Boulala is a professional skateboarder of Algerian and Swedish descent who rides for Flip Skateboards, Flip Clothing, Independent trucks, Flip Sidecuts and Etnies. He is known for his fast, flamboyant style and filmed notable parts in the Flip videos "Sorry" and "Really Sorry", Osiris "Subject to Change" and also appeared in numerous Baker skateboards videos. His approach to skateboarding concentrates on the unusual or unobvious, … - Thierry Ehrmann
Thierry Ehrmann (b. 1962) is the 1987 founder and current chairman of the Serveur Group, which is a company that manages databases of art auction quotations. The group has about 400 employees and annual revenue of about 70 million Euros. The information is administered from the ArtPrice website, which is the legal and auctions interface to the group. Thierry Ehrmann was born in Lyon, France. - Maurice Herzog
Maurice Herzog is a French mountaineer and sports administrator, born on 15 January 1919 at Lyon, France. - Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Jean-Baptiste Maunier is a French child actor. Jean-Baptiste is the son of Thierry and Muriel Maunier. He has a younger brother, Benjamin. The family lives in Lyon, France. Jean-Baptiste enjoys playing tennis, football (soccer), and skateboarding. He has recently started to play the drums and in a recent concert with Les Enfoirés, performed in front of millions. He likes the Lord of the Rings series and rock music, but hates rap. - Nizar Sassi
Nizar Sassi is a citizen of France who was detained by the United States in their naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His Guantanamo detainee ID is 325. Sassi was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. He was repatriated to France on July 27 2004. Sassis remained in French custody until January 9 2006. Sassi worked for the Venissieux Council. Venissieux is a suburb or Lyon. According to his brother, Aymen, Nizar traveled to Pakistan to learn formal Arabic. - Paul Philippe Cret
Paul Philippe Cret (October 24 1876, Lyon, France - September 8 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a French-American architect and industrial designer. - André Coindre
Father André Coindre was born Feb. 26, 1787, Lyon, France and died May 30, 1826, Blois, France Father André Coindre was founder of the Fratres a Sacratissimo Corde Iesu (Brothers of the Sacred Heart), a Roman Catholic religious order primarily devoted to high school and elementary school education; the brotherhood is also a missionary society. The Brothers of the Sacred Heart named a boarding school Coindre Hall in honor of the order's founder. - Christian Lautenschlager
Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager was a German Grand Prix motor racing champion. Born in the village of Magstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany near Stuttgart, Christian Lautenschlager was 14 years old when he began training for a career as a machinist at a company in Stuttgart. After a few jobs, he spent time traveling around Europe, returning to Stuttgart in 1899 at the age 22 where he found work at the Daimler factory. - Louis Wagner
Louis Wagner was a French race car driver who won the first ever United States and British Grands Prix. Wagner was born in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Seine-Saint-Denis. He began racing cars while in his teens and claimed victory in 1903 driving a Darracq in a voiturette class race at the Circuit des Ardennes at Bastogne, Belgium. - Hacine Cherifi
Hacine "Billy" Cherifi (b. March 30, 1969 in Lyon, France) was a French boxer. Cherifi, known as "Billy", began his pro career in 1989 and challenged for the WBC Super Middleweight Title in 1997 against Robin Reid, losing a split decision. After the loss, he dropped down in weight and took on WBC Middleweight Title holder Keith Holmes, winning a decision although he was dropped in the 9th. In 1999, he lost the belt in his first defense to Holmes, via 7th round KO. - Frank Lambert
Francois Lambert was a French - American inventor. Lambert was born in Lyon, France and then moved to the United States in 1876 and became a citizen in 1893. Lambert is currently in the Guinness World Book of Records for the oldest playable recording on a machine called the Phonograph. Lambert was also famous for inventing the modern typewriter. - Estienne de la Roche
Estienne de La Roche was a French mathematician. Sometimes known as Estienne de Villefranche, La Roche was born in Lyon, but his family also owned property in Villefranche-sur-Saône, where he lived during his youth. He studied mathematics with Nicolas Chuquet. Having in his possession Chuquet's manuscripts, it is probable that La Roche was on good terms with Chuquet. He taught commercial mathematics in Lyon for 25 years. - Pascal Verrot
Pascal Verrot is a French-born orchestra conductor who holds the post of principal conductor of the Sendai Philharmonic (Japan) and musical director of Orchestre de Picardie. Prior to that, he was music director of the Québec Symphony Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in Canada, from 1991 to 1997. Born in Lyon, France, in 1959, Mr. - Nicetius Of Lyon
Saint Nicetius (Nizier) was bishop of Lyon, France, during the 6th century. He served from 552 or 553. He was ordained as a priest by Agricola, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne. He was the nephew of Saint Sacerdos, bishop of Lyon, and his successor. He revived ecclesiastical chant in his diocese. He was also noted for being an exorcist. Nicetius received the title of patriarch from the pope. - Jacques Bruyas
Jacques Bruyas, was born in Lyon, France and entered the Jesuits as a novice in 1651. Bruyas came to the Canadian mission in 1666, arriving at Quebec from where he was soon re-assigned by Bishop Laval to the newly re-opened Iroquois missions. He proceeded to the Oneidas in present day upstate New York. For the most of the time, he had serious problems with the Iroquois and his own health and safety. - Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
Charles Gleyre (full name Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre) (Chevilly, Vaud canton, May 2, 1806 - May 5, 1874), was a Swiss artist. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. His father and mother died when he was eight or nine years of age; and he was brought up by an uncle in Lyon, France, … - Claude Royet-Journoud
Claude Royet-Journoud (born 1941 in Lyon, France) is a contemporary French poet of the "avant-garde". Today he is often mentioned along with such leading figures as Emmanuel Hocquard and Anne-Marie Albiach as one of the foremost French poets. He currently lives in Paris. - George B. Kelly
George Bradshaw Kelly (December 12, 1900 - June 26, 1971) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Kelly was born in Waterloo, New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1933 until 1934 and the New York State Senate from 1935 until 1936. He was elected to Congress in 1936 and represented New York's 38th congressional district from January 3, 1937 until January 3, 1939. - John Stephen Bazin
Bishop John Stephen (Jean Etienne) Bazin was the third Roman Catholic Bishop of Vincennes (now the Archdiocese of Indianapolis). He was born at Duerne, near Lyon, France, October 15, 1796; died at Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A., April 23, 1848. He was educated in his native country and ordained in the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Lyon, July 22, 1822. In 1830 he migrated to the United States and began his labours among the Catholics of Mobile, Alabama, … - Sacerdos Of Lyon
Sacerdos (Sardot) of Lyon is a French saint. He was bishop of Lyon, France from 544 to 551. His nephew Nicetius of Lyon (Nizier) succeeded him as bishop of Lyon. He presided at the Fifth Council of Orléans in 549 and is remembered as an adviser to Childebert I. - François Gonnessiat
François Gonnessiat was a French astronomer. He worked at the Observatory of Lyon, France. In 1901 became director of the Quito (Ecuador) Observatory for the purpose of making geodetic measurements. He became a well known and respected member of the academic scene of the city, where a street is named after him. He was director of the Algiers Observatory from 1908 to 1931, where one of his colleagues was Benjamin Jekhovsky. - Anthelme Thozet
Anthelme Thozet (1827-31 May, 1878) was a French-Australian botanist and ethnographer. His naturalisation in Rockhampton, Queensland 9 January 1862, states that he was born at Belley (L'Ain) east of Lyon in France about 1827, and his obituary (Queenslander Jun 8, 1878 p302d) depicts him as a political refugee following the 1848-51 revolt in France. - Moritz Callmann Wahl
Moritz Callmann Wahl was a German writer. He was born in Sondershausen, Germany. He studied Oriental languages at Leipzig under Julius Fürst and Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. Later he taught for a time at an English school, and later was a correspondent in a business house at Lyon, France. He settled at Erfurt, Germany, where he founded a business academy. Aside from his teaching activity he pursued scientific studies. - Joanny-Philippe Lagrula
Joanny-Philippe Lagrula (born 1870) was a French astronomer. He was sometimes referred to as "Philippe Lagrula". In 1901, he wrote his thesis at the University of Lyon. At the time, occultations of the Pleiades by the Moon were important for measuring the correspondence of the Moon's actual position with that predicted by theory. He worked at the Observatory of Lyon, France. On August 1 1906 became director of the Quito Observatory for a few years. - Pierre Cadéac
Pierre Cadéac was a French composer and probably singer of the Renaissance, active in Gascony. He wrote both sacred and secular vocal music, and had his music published in Paris and Lyons. His most famous work was the chanson "Je suis deshéritée", which many later composers, including Lassus and Palestrina, used as a basis for parody masses. - Michèle Girardon
Michèle Girardon, sometimes credited as Michele Girardon, was a French actress originally from Lyon, France. Girardon's notable acting roles include the 1961 production of "Hatari!" also starring John Wayne and Hardy Krüger. In it she plays "Brandy", the owner of a game ranch in Africa, which was in the business of capturing african animals for sale to zoos. Her death in 1975 was reportedly the result of an overdose of sleeping pills. - Georges Martin
A professional with a view. Might help you in solving a dilemma situation in a different way. Entirely dedicated to enterprise risks and crisis management. - Sebastien Morel
- Cyrille Ravot
3 years in the Automotive industry, 8 years in the Telecom industry. - Nadège Bruyas
- Aron
i am pretty much the same, haven't changed i guess fun to be around, quite out of da ordinary but nothing scary. - Bourdes
just try and ll know me............ - Rinda
we'll there aint much to say, i like to meet new peeps, i love to have fun and just chill around with my friends. Anyway its for me to know and for u to find out (smile) http://dushi97150.skyblog.com/ http://www.sxm-dadou-dushi.skyblog.com/. - Anne
Where are coming from those mysterious influences changing in discouragement our happiness and our faith in desperation ? - Caroline
I am an american chick living in France and wondering what the hell she is doing there.I believe myself to be fun,outgoing and athletic (and modest too hehe) Very excited about my upcoming trip to the US.VERY. - Cherishlove
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