Fleury (name)

The surname Fleury is of French and English (of Norman origin) and is classified as a toponymic surname (habitational name from Fleury). It derives from several places in France named Fleury,[1] which themselves originate from the Gallo-Roman personal name Florus (from Latin florus meaning "blooming" or "flowering") combined with the locative suffix -acum.[1] The surname is primarily of French and Norman origin, but it is also found in England and in Germany.[1]

## Given name

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* Fleury Di Nallo (born 1943), French former footballer
* Fleury Linossier (1902–?), French painter
* Fleury Marius (1896–1972), French aviator
* Fleury Mesplet (1734–1794), French-Canadian printer, founder of the Montreal Gazette newspaper
* Fleury François Richard (1777–1852), French painter

## Surname

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* Amber Fleury (born 1979), a contestant on Canadian Idol
* André Fleury (organist) (1903–1995), French composer, pianist, organist and pedagogue
* André-Hercule de Fleury (1653-1743), chief minister of Louis XV
* Antoine-Claude Fleury (1743–1822), French historical and portrait painter
* Aurore Fleury (born 1993), French middle-distance runner
* Brian Fleury, American football coach and former player
* Charles Fleury (c. 1605–1652), French lutenist
* Claude Fleury (1640–1723), French ecclesiastical historian
* Eleanora Fleury (1860–1940), first female medical graduate of the Royal University of Ireland
* Émery Fleury (1901–1975), Canadian politician
* Fanny Fleury (1848–1920), French painter
* Gordon A. Fleury, American politician
* Haydn Fleury (born 1996), Canadian National Hockey League player
* Jean Fleury (died 1527), French naval officer and privateer
* Jean-Gérard Fleury (1905–2002), French businessman, aviator, journalist and writer
* Lionel Fleury (1912–1997), Canadian ice hockey administrator
* Louis Fleury (1878–1926), French flautist
* Luiz Antônio Fleury Filho (1949–2022), Brazilian politician
* Marc Fleury (born 1968), French software developer
* Marc-André Fleury (born 1984), Canadian former National Hockey League player
* Mathieu Fleury (born 1985), Canadian politician
* Michel Fleury (1923–2002), French archaeologist, archivist and historian
* Michelle Fleury, British journalist
* Pat Fleury (born 1956), Irish former hurler
* Paul A. Fleury (born 1939), American physicist and academic administrator
* Sérgio Paranhos Fleury (1933–1979), Brazilian police official
* Sylvie Fleury (born 1961), Swiss pop artist
* Theoren Fleury (born 1968), Canadian former National Hockey League player
* Tracy Fleury (born 1986), Canadian curler

## Mononym

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* Abraham-Joseph Bénard (1750–1822), known as Fleury, a French actor and comedian
* Mademoiselle Fleury (Marie-Anne-Florence Bernardy-Nones, 1766–1818), a Belgian actress in France

## References

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1. ^ a b c Hanks, Patrick, ed. Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2022. Entry: "Fleury". Available at Ancestry.com

## See also

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* The dictionary definition of fleur at Wiktionary
* Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797–1890), French painter
* De Fleury, a list of people with the surname

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