- Hector Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 - March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions "Symphonie Fantastique" (first performed in 1830) and "Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem)." Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his "Treatise on Instrumentation" and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works, sometimes calling for over 1000 performers.
- Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (b. March 26 1925) is a French composer and conductor of contemporary classical music.
- Ferdinand Cheval
Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building an "Ideal Palace" (French "Palais idéal") which is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture. Ferdinand Cheval lived in Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, in the Drôme "département" of France. He had left school at the age of 13 to become a baker's apprentice but eventually became a postman. Cheval began the building in April 1879.
- Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne) is an Olympic, World and European French champion swimmer.
- Sébastien Chabal
Sébastien Chabal is a French rugby union footballer who plays at number eight in the back row of the scrum for Sale Sharks and France. He earned his first cap on March 4 2000 against Scotland. He has played 27 games for France and has scored only two tries which came against Italy in the 2007 Six Nations. Chabal joined Sale from French club Bourgoin-Jallieu, making his debut against the Leicester Tigers in 2004.
- Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier is a conservative French politician. Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère "département" of the Rhône-Alpes "région", in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a deputy for the Savoie in 1978 and served in this function until 1993.
- Jérôme Lalande
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande was a French astronomer and writer.
- Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was the most important of the French Romantic painters. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.
- Jeannie Longo
- Hervé Gaymard
Hervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005. Gaymard attended the "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)" and then at the "École nationale d'administration", graduating from the latter in 1986. After that he worked as a civil servant in a number of finance-related positions.
- Hugh Of Lincoln
Hugh of Avalon or Hugh of Burgundy, best known as Saint Hugh, bishop of Lincoln was at the time of the Reformation the best-known English saint after Thomas Becket. He was born at the château of Avalon, at the border of the Dauphiné with Savoy, the son of William, seigneur of Avalon. His mother Anna died when he was 8, and his father retired to a monastery at Villard-Benoit near Grenoble, taking his young son with him.
- Rose Valland
Rosa Antonia Maria Valland was a French art historian, a member of the French Resistance, a captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. Born in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France, she was the overseer of the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris at the time of the German occupation of France during World War II.
- René Arnoux
René Alexandre Arnoux is a retired French race car driver who is a veteran of 12 Formula One seasons (1978 to 1989). In 2006 he raced in the inaugural season of the Grand Prix Masters formula for retired F1 drivers.
- Henri Cochet
Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Born in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, France, Cochet won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships, failing to win only in Australia. He was the World No. 1 player for three consecutive years, 1928 through 1930. Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter, and a great player himself, …
- Louis de Freycinet
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, (August 7 1779-August 18 1842) was a French navigator.
- Franck Montagny
Franck Montagny (born January 5, 1978) is a French motor racing driver. He is currently in Formula One, serving as third driver for the Toyota F1 team after briefly racing for the Super Aguri F1 team in 2006.
- Sebastian Castellio
Sebastian Castellio (1515–December 29, 1563) was a French preacher and theologian; and one of the first Reformed Christian proponents of freedom of the conscience or freedom of thought.
- Jean Guitton
Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Born in Saint-Étienne, he studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He finished his philosophy studies in the early 1920s and later became a professor in many famous French universities. During World War II, he was made a war prisonner by the Nazis. In the 1954, he earned a literary award from the Académie Française.
- Aimé Jacquet
Aimé Jacquet is a French football (soccer) coach and former player, and manager of the France national football team when they won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
- Olivier Milloud
Olivier Milloud is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for CS Bourgoin-Jallieu in the top level of French rugby, the Top 14 competition. He has also played for the French national team, including being a part of their 2003 Rugby World Cup squad. He usually plays as a prop. He made his international debut for France in a match against Romania on May 28 2000. He had surgery on his ankle in 2003, …
- Jules Janin
Jules Gabriel Janin (February 16, 1804 - June 19, 1874), was a French writer and critic.
- Edgar Quinet
Edgar Quinet (February 17, 1803-March 27, 1875) was a French historian and intellectual.
- Philibert II, Duke of Savoy
Philibert II (April 10 1480 - September 10 1504), surnamed the Handsome or the Good was the Duke of Savoy from 1497 until his death.
- Jean-Marie Roland, Vicomte de la Platière
Vicomte Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière was a French statesman and Girondist during the French Revolution. He served as a minister of the interior in King Louis XVI's Girondist cabinet of spring 1792.
- Claude Louis Berthollet
Claude Louis Berthollet (December 9, 1748 - November 6, 1822) was a French chemist
- Vincent Clerc
Vincent Clerc is a French rugby player born on May 7, 1981 in the city of Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble (Isère). He has been playing wing at Stade Toulousain since 2002 (formerly playing at FC Grenoble, whom he helped to reach the Top 16) before leaving for Toulouse. He has been capped 16 times and scored 9 tries (45 points) for the France national team. frp:Vincent Clerc ast:Vincent Clerc nrm:Vincent Clerc
- Victor de Laprade
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade, known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. He was born at Montbrison, in the "département" of the Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, "Les Parfums de Madeleine". This was followed in 1840 by "La colère de Jesus", in 1841 by the religious fantasy of "Psyche", …
- Pierre Guérin de Tencin
Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyon, and a cardinal. His sister Claudine was a spur to his career. After studying with the Oratorians in his native Grenoble, he entered the Sorbonne, where he became prior in 1702, and obtained the doctorate in 1705. He was then appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Sens and, in 1721, accompanied Cardinal de Rohan to Rome as his conclavist, …
- Huguette Bouchardeau
Huguette Bouchardeau is a French socialist politician, as well as a publisher (founder of HB Éditions), essayist, and biographer.
- Carole Montillet
Carole Montillet-Carles (born April 7, 1973) is a French alpine skier.
- Julien Brellier
Julien Brellier (born 10 January 1982, in Echirolles) is a French professional footballer currently playing for Norwich City. He is a defensive midfielder who plays just in front of the back four.
- Jérémy Berthod
Jérémy Berthod is a French footballer who plays defender for AS Monaco. A pure product of the Olympique Lyonnais' youth academy, he is a regular selection for the France U-21 squad.
- Diane de Poitiers
Diane de Poitiers (September 3, 1499 - April 25, 1566) was a noblewoman and a fixture at the courts of Francis I and Henri II of France. She became notorious as the latter's favorite.
- Frédéric Kanouté
Frédéric "Fredi" Kanouté is a French born Malian footballer, who plays for Sevilla FC in the Spanish league. Kanouté's talents as a tall striker were first noticed by his local team, Olympique Lyonnais, and he joined them as an apprentice in 1997. He played for the French under-21 team while at the club. Kanouté joined English club West Ham United in 2000. He went on to play 84 times for the East London club, scoring 29 goals.
- Paul Bocuse
Paul Bocuse (born on 11 February, 1926 in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon) is a French chef, considered one of the finest cooks of the 20th century. He is widely credited with being one of the first chefs to emerge from the kitchen and to enter public life. In this role, he has extensively traveled for several decades, promoting French cuisine, starting restaurants and culinary institutions, and participating in other business ventures.
- Joseph Canteloube
Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, was a French composer. Canteloube was born in Annonay in the Ardèche, and died at Grigny in Essonne (a part of the Auvergne region.) He is best known for his collection of orchestrated folk songs from the Auvergne region, "Chants d’Auvergne" ("Songs of the Auvergne"). Canteloube himself believed that "les chants paysans s’élèvent bien souvent au niveau de l’art le plus pur, par le sentiment et l’expression, …
- Marcel Achard
Marcel Achard was a French playwright, screenwriter and author. He was born Marcel-Auguste Ferréol in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, a Rhône département town and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career immediately following World War I. His first major success came in 1923 with renowned actor-director Charles Dullin's staging of his play "Voulez-vous jouer avec moâ?" ("Would You Like to Play with Me?"), …
- Laure Pequegnot
Laure Pequegnot is a former French Alpine skier. She was born in Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble, (Isère). She won a total of 3 Alpine skiing World Cup races, all in the slalom discipline.
- Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald (February 2, 1911-December 19, 1982), was a French organist, composer, architect, and pedagogue.
- Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, sometimes known as Abbé de Mably, was a French philosopher and politician. He was born in Grenoble of a legal family, and, like his younger brother, the well-known philosopher, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (September 30, 1715 – August 3, 1780), took holy orders.