List of people from Grenoble

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.

• Francis Regis Clet (1748–1820), martyr saint of China
• Antoine Marini (15th century), theologian, political thinker and diplomat, adviser to King George Podiebrad of Bohemia
• 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
• 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
• Antoine Barnave (1761–1793), orator of the French Revolution
• 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
• Stendhal (1783��1842), author
• Léon Roches (1809–1901), diplomat
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter
• Charles Bertier (1860–1924), landscape painter
• Lionel Terray (1921–1965), climber
• Michel Calonne (born 1927), writer
• Ultra Violet (born 1935), artist, author and former colleague of the American artist Andy Warhol
• Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1942–2006), motor-racing driver
• Andre the Giant (real name André René Roussimoff; 1946–1993), wrestler and actor
• Michel Lotito (1950–2007), entertainer
• Maurice Dantec (born 1959), 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 English Premier League side Chelsea
• Mister V (born 1993), YouTuber, Internet personality, comedian, rapper, and actor

Grenoblois residents[]

The following people have resided in Grenoble.

(sorted by year of birth)

References[]

See also[]

• List of French people