Gros (surname) explained

The surname Gros may have several origins. In French, it is a nickname for a big, fat person. Likewise, in Romanian, Groș is a word for "large". In several languages, it is a spelling variant of the German surname Gross.^[1] See also Legros.

Notable people with this surname include:

• Sara Gros Aspiroz (born 1983), Spanish ski mountaineer
• Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), French painter
• Brigitte Gros (1925–1985), French journalist and politician
• Daniel Gros (born 1955), German economist
• Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793–1870), French ambassador and one of the first daguerreotypists
• Jules Gros (1890–1992), Breton linguist
• Jules Gros (journalist) (1890–1891), French journalist and President of the unrecognised Republic of Independent Guyana
• Piet Gros (born 1964), Dutch chemist

Notes and References

1. Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press, as cited at ancestry.com