Gros (surname)
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The surname Gros may have several origins. French: a nickname for a big, fat person. In Several languages it is a spelling variant of Gername surname Gross. [1] Groș is a Romanian-language word for "Large". See also Legros.
Gros, Groș may refer the following notable people:
- Sara Gros Aspiroz (born 1983), Spanish ski mountaineer
- Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), French painter
- Brigitte Gros (1925-1985), French journalist and politician
- Daniel Gros (born 1955), German economist
- Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793–1870), French ambassador and one of the first daguerrotypists
- Jules Gros (1890–1992), Breton linguist
- Jules Gros (journalist) (1890–1891), French journalist and President of the unrecognised Republic of Independent Guyana
- Piet Gros (born 1964), Dutch chemist
References[]
- ^ Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press, as cited at ancestry.com
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