People Named Fourier
- Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), French mathematician and physicist
- Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French utopian socialist thinker
- Peter Fourier (1565–1640), French saint in the Roman Catholic Church and priest of Mattaincourt
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