Bonnevoie
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Bonnevoie is an area of south-eastern Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg
. It is divided between the quarters
of North Bonnevoie-Verlorenkost
and South Bonnevoie
. It is the biggest neighbourhood in the city, with more than 15,000 inhabitants.
Famous people born in Bonnevoie include:
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
. It is divided between the quarters
Quarters of Luxembourg City
The Quarters of Luxembourg City are the smallest administrative division for local government in Luxembourg City, the capital and largest city in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg....
of North Bonnevoie-Verlorenkost
North Bonnevoie-Verlorenkost
North Bonnevoie-Verlorenkost is a quarter in southern Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. Within the quarter lies some of the area of Bonnevoie, most of which lies in the quarter of South Bonnevoie....
and South Bonnevoie
South Bonnevoie
South Bonnevoie is a quarter in south-eastern Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. Within the quarter lies most of the area of Bonnevoie, which also forms part of North Bonnevoie-Verlorenkost. In 2010, the quarter had a population of 15,596 people, the most of all of the city's quarters....
. It is the biggest neighbourhood in the city, with more than 15,000 inhabitants.
Famous people born in Bonnevoie include:
- John E. DoliboisJohn E. DoliboisJohn Ernest Dolibois is a retired United States Ambassador to Luxembourg and college administrator.A native of Luxembourg, Dolibois emigrated to the United States with his father in 1931...
, United States ambassador to Luxembourg - Hugo GernsbackHugo GernsbackHugo Gernsback , born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G...
, editor and science fiction author - François HentgesFrançois HentgesFrançois Hentges was a Luxembourgian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was born in Bonnevoie....
, gymnast - Gabriel LippmannGabriel LippmannJonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference....
, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (1908)