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. 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)

Notable 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
• Francis Bourgeois (trainspotter) (Luke Nicolson, born 2000), British social media influencer and trainspotter
• 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–c.1560), aka Loys Bourgeois, French composer
• Louis Bourgeois (footballer) (1937–2022), French footballer
• 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

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