The surname Gros may have several origins. French: a nickname for a big, fat person. In Several languages it is a spelling variant of Gername surname Gross. Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press, as cited at

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Groș is a Romanian-language word for "Large". See also

Legros Legros, LeGros or Le Gros is an ancient Norman/French surname. It literally means "the Large". Notable people with the surname or nickname include: Surname * Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), French painter and etcher * Augustus Asplet Le Gros (1840 ...

. Gros, Groș may refer the following notable people: *

Sara Gros Aspiroz Sara Gros Aspiroz (born 9 June 1983)is a Spanish ski mountaineer. After good results in younger age classes, for example 3rd in the single race event of the 2002 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering, 2003 European "juniors" runner-up ...

(born 1983), Spanish ski mountaineer *

Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was given title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French R ...

(1771–1835), French painter * Brigitte Gros (1925–1985), French journalist and politician *

Daniel Gros Daniel Gros (born 1955) is a German economist who currently serves as the Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a European think tank. Gros worked for the CEPS from 1986 to 1988 and has worked there continuously since 1990. ...

(born 1955), German economist *

Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros (1793–1870), also known as Baron Gros, was a French diplomat and later senator, as well as a notable pioneer of photography. Life and career He entered the French diplomatic service in 1823 and was given the title of ...

(1793–1870), French ambassador and one of the first daguerreotypists *

Jules Gros Jules Marcel Gros (2 February 1890 – 25 December 1992) was a Breton linguist specializing in the Breton language. He was born in Paris. Gros' studies began very early in the twentieth century, from his grandmother and other people in his v ...

(1890–1992), Breton linguist *

Jules Gros (journalist) Jules Gros (3 March 1829 – 30 July 1891) was a French journalist and Secretary of the Société de géographie. He became the President of the unrecognised Republic of Independent Guyana in South America in May 1887, but was deposed in Septem ...

(1890–1891), French journalist and President of the unrecognised Republic of Independent Guyana *

Piet Gros Piet Gros (born July 31, 1962 in Dokkum) is a Dutch chemist and professor biomacromolecular crystallography at Utrecht University. In 2010 he received the NWO Spinoza Prize for the elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of the C3 protei ...

(born 1964), Dutch chemist

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