Gros (surname)
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The surname Gros may have several origins. In French, it is a nickname for a big, fat person. Likewise, in Romanian, Groș is a word for "large". In several languages, it is a spelling variant of the German surname Gross.[1] See also Legros.
Notable people with this surname include:
- 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 daguerreotypists
- 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[edit]
- ^ Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press, as cited at ancestry.com
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