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    List of people from Grenoble

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    The following is a list of notable people born in or associated with the French city of Grenoble, Isère.

    Grenoblois natives

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    The city was the birthplace of the following people.

    • Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin (1593–1659) a French diplomat.[1]
    • Antoine Marini (15th century), theologian, political thinker and diplomat, adviser to King George Podiebrad of Bohemia
    • Hugues de Lionne (1611–1671) a French statesman.[2]
    • Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624–1711) a French adventuress. commonly called "Marie".[3]
    • Pierre Guérin de Tencin (1679–1758), French ecclesiastic, archbishop of Embrun and Lyon and a cardinal.[4]
    • Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749) a French salonist and author.[5]
    • François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), a politician and diplomat.[6]
    • Francis Regis Clet (1748–1820), martyr saint of China
    • Jacques de Vaucanson (1709–1782), inventor of the automated loom and an automaton known as the Digesting Duck
    • Jacques Rochette de La Morlière (1719–1785), 18th-century French playwright and writer.
    • Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780), writer of the Enlightenment.[7]
    • Joseph-Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle (1727–1812), journalist and playwright
    • Claude Périer (1742–1801), public figure of the French Revolution and French Directory, banker
    • Pierre Joseph Joubert de La Salette (1743–1833), General, musicologist
    • Jean Joseph Mounier (1758–1806), politician.[8]
    • Antoine Barnave (1761–1793), orator of the French Revolution.[9]
    • Camille Teisseire (1764–1842), industrialist and public figure of the French Revolution
    • Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769–1852), religious sister, educator and saint of the Catholic Church
    • Casimir Pierre Périer (1777–1832), statesman.[10]
    • Stendhal (1783–1842), real name Marie-Henri Beyle, author.[11]
    • Antoine Clot (1793–1868) a French doctor known as Clot Bey while practicing in Egypt.[12]
    • Léon Roches (1809–1901), diplomat
    • Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter.[13]
    • Charles Bertier (1860–1924), landscape painter
    • Philibert Guinier (1876–1962), botanist[14]
    • Pierre Cot (1895–1977), anti-fascist politician
    • Lionel Terray (1921–1965), climber
    • Michel Calonne (1927–2019), writer
    • Ultra Violet (1935–2014), artist, author and former colleague of the American artist Andy Warhol
    • Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1942–2006), motor-racing driver
    • Michel Lotito (1950–2007), entertainer
    • Maurice Dantec (1959–2016), science-fiction author
    • Sami Bouajila (born 1966), actor
    • Christophe Aribert (born 1971), chef; holds two Michelin stars and four toques Gault Millau
    • Seyhan Kurt (born 1971), poet and writer
    • Fabrice Bellard (born 1972), computer programmer and author of FFmpeg
    • Miss Kittin (real name Caroline Hervé; born 1973), electronica-music singer
    • Vincent Clerc (born 1981), professional rugby union player (wing position)
    • Pierre-Jean Croset (born 1949), composer and musicologist
    • Olivier Giroud (born 1986), former Grenoble Foot 38 footballer, who now plays for Italian Serie A side Milan
    • Mister V (born 1993), YouTuber, Internet personality, comedian, rapper, and actor
    • Camille Étienne (born 1998), environmental activist

    Grenoblois residents

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    The following people have resided in Grenoble.

    (sorted by year of birth)

    • Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1473–1524) a French knight and military leader.[15]
    • François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières (1543–1626) – lieutenant-general of Dauphiné.[16]
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) – philosopher and writer.[17]
    • Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) – Egyptologist.[18]
    • Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) – mathematician and physicist.[19]
    • Louis Néel (1904–2000) – physicist
    • Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982) – French prime minister
    • Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) – film director
    • Youri Djorkaeff (born 1968) – association footballer; member of winning Team France at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and at the UEFA Euro 2000
    • Cristobal Huet (born 1975) – professional ice hockey goaltender (Chicago Blackhawks)
    • Katsuni (born 1979) – professional pornographic actress; studied at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies
    • Julien Brellier (born 1982) – association footballer; former team member of Heart of Midlothian F.C.

    References

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    1. ^ "Servien, Abel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 698.
    2. ^ "Lionne, Hugues de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 739.
    3. ^ "Mignot, Claudine Françoise" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 427.
    4. ^ "Tenpin, Pierre Guérin de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 614.
    5. ^ "Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 614.
    6. ^ "Saint Priest, François Emmanuel Guignard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 42.
    7. ^ Sturt, Henry Cecil (1911). "Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). pp. 849–851.
    8. ^ "Mounier, Jean Joseph" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911.
    9. ^ "Barnave, Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 411–412.
    10. ^ "Périer, Casimir Pierre" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 148–149.
    11. ^ "Beyle, Marie Henri" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 838–839.
    12. ^ "Clot, Antoine Barthélemy" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 556–557.
    13. ^ "Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 172.
    14. ^ "Fiche CTHS de Philbert Guinier".
    15. ^ "Bayard, Pierre Terrail" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 554.
    16. ^ "Lesdiguières, François de Bonne, Duc de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 489.
    17. ^ Rockstro, William Smyth; Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Rousseau, Jean Jacques" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). pp. 775–778.
    18. ^ "Champollion, Jean François" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 831–832.
    19. ^ "Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 752–753.

    See also

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    • List of French people
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