List of Famous people named Lucien
Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse
Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse was a French engineer. He was born in Paris as the son of Laetitia Bonaparte-Wyse, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte and estranged wife of the Irish politician Sir Thomas Wyse, Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse's real father was a British army officer, Captain Studholme John Hodgson. He joined the French navy as a midshipman on the ship Amphion, based in Toulon. Commissioned by the French company Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama he obtained a concession to build a canal from the Colombian government. He made two trips to Panama to study the project and the concluded it was feasible. The agreement, known as the "Wyse Concession" was valid 99 years and allowed the company to dig a canal and exploit it. The Panama Scandal allowed Ferdinand de Lesseps to redeem the rights. After this Bonaparte Wyse wrote his memoirs, intending to prove to investors that the project was viable. The United States would get the concession and build the canal.
Lucien Louis Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte
Lucien Louis Joseph Napoléon Bonaparte, 4th Prince of Canino and Musignano, was a French cardinal and member of the House of Bonaparte.
Lucien Bodard
Lucien Bodard was a French reporter and writer on events in Asia.
Lucien De Brauwere
Lucien De Brauwere was a Belgian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Lucien Daudet
Lucien Daudet was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet and Julia Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his ties to fellow novelist Marcel Proust. Daudet was also friends with Jean Cocteau.
Lucien Simon
Lucien Joseph Simon was a French painter and teacher born in Paris.
Lucien Jerphagnon
Lucien Jerphagnon was a French scholar, historian and philosopher specialized in Greek and Roman philosophy.
Lucien Poincaré
Lucien Poincaré was a distinguished French physicist.