Auguste Charlois who discovered 317 Roxane named for Roxana from what area
Roxana Roxana (Ancient Greek: Ῥωξάνη ; Old Iranian "Raoxshna"; sometimes Roxanne, Roxanna, Roxandra and Roxane) was a Sogdian princess of Bactria and a wife of the Greek Macedonian king, Alexander the Great. She was born in c. 340 BC though the precise date remains uncertain and died in c. 310 BC.
Auguste Ménégaux Henri Auguste Ménégaux (17 May 1857 – 15 July 1937) was a French ornithologist and malacologist born in Audincourt. He was based at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. From 1910, with Louis Denise (1863-1914), he was publisher of the journal, "Revue Française d'Ornithologie Scientifique et Pratique".