Lionel Guy Stoléru (22 November 1937 – 30 November 2016) was a French politician and civil servant. He was also an orchestra founder and conductor. His father, Ilie, was a Romanian immigrant from Vaslui. Stoléru was born in Nantes and attended the École Polytechnique, where he studied to be a mining engineer and graduated in 1956. Stoléru continued his studies at the École des Mines de Paris, and also did graduate studies at Stanford University in the US, earning a doctorate in economics with Kenneth Arrow. Stoléru and his wife Francine Wolff, who died in 2009, had one daughter, Emmanuelle.