Legros, LeGros or Le Gros is an ancient Norman/French

surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

. It literally means "the Large". Notable people with the surname or nickname include:

Surname

Alphonse Legros Alphonse Legros (; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later was naturalized as British. He was important as a teacher in the British etching ...

(1837–1911), French painter and etcher * Augustus Asplet Le Gros (1840–1877), Norman language poet from Jersey and a Jurat of the Royal Court of Jersey * Bartholomew le Gros (before 1189–after 1253), prelate of French origin in the Kingdom of Hungary * Danielle Legros Georges (c. 1965–2025), Haitian-born American poet, essayist and academic * Fernand Legros (1931–1983), French art dealer * James LeGros (b. 1962), American film and television actor *

Joseph Legros Joseph Legros, often also spelt Le Gros, (7 September or 8 September 1739 – 20 December 1793) was a French singer, impresario and composer of the 18th century. He is usually regarded as the most prominent ''haute-contre'' of his generation, th ...

(1739–1793), French singer and composer *

Pierre Le Gros the Elder Pierre Le Gros the Elder (baptised 27 May 1629 Chartres – died 11 May 1714 Paris)Gerhard Bissell, ''Le Gros, Pierre (1629)'', in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 83, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, . was a French sculptor in the service of Kin ...

(1629–1714), French sculptor working primarily at Versailles * Pierre Le Gros the Younger (1666–1719), French sculptor * Raymond le Gros, Anglo-Norman commander * Sous-Lieutenant Legros, who led the breach at

Hougoumont Château d'Hougoumont (possibly originally Goumont or Gomont) is a walled manorial compound, situated at the bottom of an escarpment near the Nivelles road in the Braine-l'Alleud municipality, near Waterloo, Belgium. The site served as one o ...

William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle William le Gros, William le Gras, William d'Aumale, William Crassus (died 20 August 1179) was Earl of York and Lord of Holderness in the English peerage and the Count of Aumale in France. He was the eldest son of Stephen, Count of Aumale, and his ...

(died 1179), Count of Aumale, Earl of York, and Lord of Holderness

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* Charles Le Gros, anglicized as

Charles the Fat Charles the Fat (839 – 13 January 888) was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, and a great-grandson of Charlemagne. He was t ...

, (839–888), King of The Franks, Alemannia, Italy, East Francia, and West Francia * Henry I of Navarre, also known as Henri le Gros (“Henry the Fat”), Count of Champagne, King of Navarre 1244-1274 * Louis VI Le Gros, King of France

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