Boissieu

Boissieu (or Boissieux) is a French proper name originating in middle and eastern France (Auvergne, Lyon, Alpes), probably meaning "woody place" ("bois" means wood in French).

Families
Several French noble families bear the name Boissieu, including:
 * The family de Boissieu or Boissieu du Forez, originally from Forez, near Lyon, in the 16th century
 * The family Boissieu d'Auvergne or Boissieu de la Geneste, originating from La Chapelle-Geneste (Haute-Loire) in 1316
 * The family Perrin de Boissieu or Boissieu-Perrin, later called Salvaing de Boissieu, originally from the Dauphiné. A line of this family later settled in Aunis (18th century) and Normandy (19th century).

People

 * Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736-1810), the French artist and engraver
 * Henri Louis Augustin de Boissieu (1741-1795), French general
 * Joseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière (1758-1788), French doctor of medicine, botanist and biologist
 * Claude Victor de Boissieu (1783-1868), the French artist and local politician
 * Henri de Boissieu (1871-1912), French botanist, see Astilbe
 * Alain de Boissieu (1914-2006), general son-in-law of the general Charles de Gaulle
 * Pierre de Boissieu (born 1945), French diplomat and former French ambassador to the European Union
 * Christian de Boissieu (born 1947), professor of economics at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne university