Bourgeois (surname)
Bourgeois is a French surname.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 49.6% of all known bearers of the surname Bourgeois were residents of France (frequency 1:1,819), 24.8% of the United States (1:19,760), 15.8% of Canada (1:3,157), 5.4% of Belgium (1:2,892) and 1.5% of Switzerland (1:7,254).
In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,819) in the following regions:[1]
- 1. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:548)
- 2. Guadeloupe (1:758)
- 3. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (1:914)
- 4. Centre-Val de Loire (1:1,127)
- 5. Hauts-de-France (1:1,238)
- 6. Grand Est (1:1,575)
- 7. Île-de-France (1:1,718)
- 8. Normandy (1:1,802)
People
- Albéric Bourgeois (1876–1962), Canadian comic strip artist
- Amandine Bourgeois (born 1979), French singer
- Bradley Bourgeois (born 1994), American soccer player
- Brent Bourgeois (born 1958), American rock musician and producer
- Célia Bourgeois (born 1983), French cross-country skier
- Charles Bourgeois (1879–1940), Canadian politician
- Constant Bourgeois (1767–1841), French landscape painter and engraver
- Dana Bourgeois (born 1953), American luthier
- Derek Bourgeois (1941–2017), English composer
- Diane Bourgeois (born 1949), Canadian politician
- Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951), American sculptor and painter
- Émile Bourgeois (1857–1934), French historian
- Francis Bourgeois (1756–1811), British landscape painter and court painter to George III
- Geert Bourgeois (born 1951), Flemish politician
- Gérard Bourgeois (1874–1944), French film director
- Jason Bourgeois (born 1982), American baseball player
- Jules Bourgeois (1847–1911), French entomologist
- Mistinguett (born Jeanne Bourgeois, 1873–1956), French actress and singer
- Joël Bourgeois (born 1971), Canadian distance runner
- Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman
- Louis Bourgeois (architect) (1856–1930), Canadian architect
- Louis Bourgeois (composer) (c.1510–1560), aka Loys Bourgeois, French composer
- Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), French-American artist and sculptor
- Marie Bourgeois (1870–1937), French chef
- Paulette Bourgeois (born 1951), Canadian children's writer
- Roy Bourgeois (born 1938), American human rights activist
- Victor Bourgeois (1897–1962), Belgian Modernist architect
- Yvonne Bourgeois (1902–1983), French tennis player
- Francis Bourgeois (trainspotter) (Born 2000), British social media influencer and trainspotter
See also
- Élie Bourgois (1881–1946), French gymnast
- Philippe Bourgois, professor of anthropology and the author of ethnographic works
- Siméon Bourgois (1815–1887), 19th-century French Navy officer
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