Bourgeois (surname)

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)

• Albéric Bourgeois (1876–1962), Canadian comic strip artist
• Amandine Bourgeois (born 1979), French singer
• Brent Bourgeois, U.S. rock musician and producer
• Constant Bourgeois, French landscape painter and engraver
• Dana Bourgeois, 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), landscape painter and court painter to George III
• Geert Bourgeois, Flemish politician
• Jason Bourgeois (born 1982), American baseball player
• Joël Bourgeois (born 1971), Canadian distance runner
• Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman
• Louis Bourgeois (architect) (1856–1930), architect
• Louis Bourgeois (composer) (c.1510–1560), aka Loys Bourgeois, French composer
• Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), artist and sculptor
• Paulette Bourgeois (born 1951), Canadian children's writer
• Roy Bourgeois, human rights activist
• Siméon Bourgeois (1815–1887), 19th century French Navy officer
• Victor Bourgeois, Belgian Modernist architect

• Philippe Bourgois, professor of anthropology and the author of ethnographic works