Bourg-en-Bresse as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. French road racing cyclist, French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936), French astronomer (*1732 – †1807)): Pierre-Luc Périchon, Julien Tiersot, Jérôme Lalande and some more.
Celebrities from Bourg-en-Bresse