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page 1People from the Lyonnais
Jean-Baptiste Say
French economist and businessman (1767–1832)
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist (1748–1836)
Louise Labé
French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon (1524–1566)
Gérard Desargues
French mathematician and engineer
Joseph Marie Jacquard
French inventor
Adrien Manglard
French painter and engraver (1695-1760)
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse
French Salon-holder
Jean-Étienne Montucla
French mathematician (*1725 – †1799)
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière
French politician (1734-1793)
Jean-Marie Leclair
French Baroque violinist and composer
Antoine Coysevox
sculptor from France (1640–1720)
Antoine de Jussieu
French botanist (1686-1758)
Tarrare
Tarrare (; – 1798), sometimes spelt Tarar, was a French showman, soldier, and spy noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled around France in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling charlatan. In this act, he swallowed corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris, where he worked as a street performer.
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
French actor and writer (1749-1796)
Bernard de Jussieu
French botanist (1699-1777)
Pierre Poivre
French horticulturalist (1719–1786)
François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi
French duke (1644-1730)
Nicolas Coustou
sculptor from France (1658-1733)
Claude Bourgelat
French veterinary surgeon (1712–1779)
Élisabeth Thible
Ballooning pioneer
André Morellet
French academic (1728-1819)
Guillaume Coustou the Elder
sculptor from France (1677-1746)
Jacob Spon
French archaeologist (1647-1685)
Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert
French politician and botanist (1741–1814)
Joseph de Jussieu
French botanist (1704-1779)
François Rozier
French botanist (1734-1793)
Jean-Baptiste Morin
French astronomer
Jean-Baptiste Willermoz
18th-century French freemason
Nicolas Andry
French physician and writer
Jacques Stella
French Baroque painter (1596-1657)
Gérard Audran
French engraver (1640-1703)
Louis-François Roubiliac
French sculptor (1702–1762)
Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla
French stage actress and ballerina
Mathurin-Léonard Duphot
French general (1769-1797)
Antoine du Verdier
French politician
Pierre-Édouard Lémontey
French historian, lawyer and politician (1762-1826)
Jean-Pierre Christin
French astronomer
Joseph Chalier
French revolutionary (1747-1793)
Claude Audran III
French painter (1658-1734)
Pierre Perrin
French poet
Claude Carra Saint-Cyr
French general and diplomat (1760-1834)
Maximilien Misson
French travel writer
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
French architect
Benoît Audran the Elder
French engraver (1661-1721)
Pierre Matthieu
French writer, poet, historian and dramatist (1563-1621)
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
French explorer and politician (1738–1810)
Claude Gros de Boze
French numismatist (1680-1753)
Joseph Guichard Duverney
French anatomist
Balthasar de Monconys
French diplomat
Joseph Vivien
French painter, portraitist and pastelist (1657-1734)
Pierre-Jacques Willermoz
French chemist
Jean Audran
French artist (1667–1756)
Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon
French architect and sculptor (1667-1742)
Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette
French botanist (1729-1793)
Jean François Cornu de La Poype
French general (1758-1851)
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
French artist (1736-1810)
Louis-Marie Prudhomme
French journalist (1752-1830)
Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella
French engraver (1636–1697)
Nicolas Dezède
French composer
Charles-Joseph Mathon de La Cour
French art critic, and essayist