Are famous people associated with Lyon in France?

Answer 1

• Frederique Bangue (athlete)
• Karim Benzema (footballer)
• Cedric Bardon (footballer)
• Alain Caveglia (footballer)

Gerard Desarques (mathematician)

• Martine Roure (politician)
• Jacques Sabon (typefounder)
• Pierre Quinon (pole vaulter)
• Jean Martinon (conductor and composer)

Answer 2

Roman emperors Claudius and Caracalla,

Philibert Delorme, a Renaissance architect,

Jeanne Barret (first woman to complete a journey around the world in the 1770s),

Gaspard Monge, engineer, founder of Polytechnique college,

André-Marie Ampère, scientist and electromagnetism theorician,

Tony Garnier, architect of the Paris Opera,

the Lumière brothers, cinema pioneers,

Hector Guimard, leader of the Art Nouveau movement,

Maurice Jarre and his son Jean-Michel Jarre, musicians and composers,

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, pilot and author (famous for "the little Prince" tale),

Paul Bocuse, three-star Michelin cook,

are all born in Lyon, France.