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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
The city was the birthplace of the following people.
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Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin (1593–1659) a French diplomat.
[1]
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Antoine Marini (15th century), theologian, political thinker and diplomat, adviser to King
George Podiebrad of
Bohemia
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Hugues de Lionne (1611–1671) a French statesman.
[2]
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Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624–1711) a French adventuress. commonly called "Marie".
[3]
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Pierre Guérin de Tencin (1679–1758), French ecclesiastic, archbishop of Embrun and Lyon and a cardinal.
[4]
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Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749) a French salonist and author.
[5]
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François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), a politician and diplomat.
[6]
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Francis Regis Clet (1748–1820),
martyr
saint of
China
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Jacques de Vaucanson (1709–1782), inventor of the automated
loom and an automaton known as the
Digesting Duck
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Jacques Rochette de La Morlière (1719–1785), 18th-century French playwright and writer.
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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780), writer of the Enlightenment.
[7]
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Joseph-Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle (1727–1812), journalist and playwright
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Claude Périer (1742–1801), public figure of the
French Revolution and
French Directory, banker
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Pierre Joseph Joubert de La Salette (1743–1833), General, musicologist
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Jean Joseph Mounier (1758–1806), politician.
[8]
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Antoine Barnave (1761–1793), orator of the
French Revolution.
[9]
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Camille Teisseire (1764–1842), industrialist and public figure of the
French Revolution
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Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769–1852),
religious sister, educator and saint of the
Catholic Church
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Casimir Pierre Périer (1777–1832), statesman.
[10]
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Stendhal (1783–1842), real name Marie-Henri Beyle, author.
[11]
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Antoine Clot (1793–1868) a French doctor known as Clot Bey while practicing in Egypt.
[12]
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Léon Roches (1809–1901), diplomat
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Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter.
[13]
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Charles Bertier (1860–1924), landscape painter
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Philibert Guinier (1876–1962), botanist
[14]
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Pierre Cot (1895–1977),
anti-fascist politician
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Lionel Terray (1921–1965), climber
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Michel Calonne (1927–2019), writer
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Ultra Violet (1935–2014), artist, author and former colleague of the American artist
Andy Warhol
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Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1942–2006),
motor-racing driver
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Michel Lotito (1950–2007), entertainer
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Maurice Dantec (1959–2016), science-fiction author
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Sami Bouajila (born 1966), actor
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Christophe Aribert (born 1971), chef; holds two
Michelin stars and four toques
Gault Millau
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Seyhan Kurt (born 1971), poet and writer
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Fabrice Bellard (born 1972), computer
programmer and author of
FFmpeg
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Miss Kittin (real name Caroline Hervé; born 1973),
electronica-music singer
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Vincent Clerc (born 1981), professional
rugby union player (
wing position)
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Pierre-Jean Croset (born 1949), composer and musicologist
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Olivier Giroud (born 1986), former
Grenoble Foot 38 footballer, who now plays for Italian Serie A side
Milan
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Mister V (born 1993),
YouTuber,
Internet personality,
comedian,
rapper, and actor
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Camille Étienne (born 1998), environmental activist
Grenoblois residents
The following people have resided in Grenoble.
(sorted by year of birth)
References
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"Servien, Abel" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 698.
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"Lionne, Hugues de" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 739.
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"Mignot, Claudine Françoise" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 427.
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"Tenpin, Pierre Guérin de" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 614.
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"Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 614.
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"Saint Priest, François Emmanuel Guignard" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 42.
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^ Sturt, Henry Cecil (1911).
"Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). pp. 849–851.
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"Mounier, Jean Joseph" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911.
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"Barnave, Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 411–412.
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"Périer, Casimir Pierre" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 148–149.
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"Beyle, Marie Henri" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 838–839.
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"Clot, Antoine Barthélemy" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 556–557.
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"Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 172.
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"Fiche CTHS de Philbert Guinier".
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"Bayard, Pierre Terrail" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 554.
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"Lesdiguières, François de Bonne, Duc de" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 489.
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Rockstro, William Smyth;
Chisholm, Hugh (1911).
"Rousseau, Jean Jacques" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). pp. 775–778.
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"Champollion, Jean François" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 831–832.
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"Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph" .
Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 752–753.
See also