People
- Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron (1524–1592), a celebrated French soldier
- Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1562–1602), a French marshal, son of Armand de Biron
- Armand Louis de Gontaut (1747–1793), known as Biron, soldier and politician
- Ernst Johann von Biron, (1690–1769), Russian regent 1740, sovereign Duke of Courland (1737–40, 1763–72)
- Peter von Biron, (1724–1800), sovereign Duke of Courland (1769–95), son of Ernst Johann von Biron
- Martin Biron, an NHL goalie.
- Mathieu Biron, an ice hockey defenceman, brother of Martin Biron
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