Gros (surname)

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. 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