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This is a non-exhaustive list of people who were born in the
Occitania historical territory, or notable people from other regions of France or Europe with Occitan roots, or notable people from other regions of France or Europe who have other significant links with the historical region. One may note that this article, 'Notable people from Occitania', is compound for a large part of personalities from the historical region of Occitania and/or who own an Occitan patronym and/or who lived for the major part of their lives in the Occitania historical territory, yet an important part of the list members still can't be considered as belonging to the Occitan historical heritage, mainly due to their mother-tongue, French.
Dominique Ingres , Self-portrait .
Frédéric Mistral , Symbol of the Occitan revival.
Montaigne , prominent thinker of the
Renaissance .
Audrey Tautou , famous actress and model.
Albert Fert , 2007
Nobel Prize in Physics .
Paul Cézanne , Bay of Marseilles . Cézanne loved to paint his native
Provence .
Montesquieu , a major figure of the
Enlightenment .
Pierre de Fermat , considered as one of the greatest French mathematicians of the Renaissance, who is given the
Fermat's Last Theorem .
Writers, playwrights and poets
Petronius ,
courtier during the reign of
Nero from
Massalia , author of the
Satyricon .
Ausonius , 4th century
Roman poet from
Burdigalia .
Bertran de Born , 12th century
troubadour .
William IX , early troubadour and knight crusader.
Marcabru , early 12th century troubadour.
Monge de Montaudon , 12th century troubadour.
Peire Vidal , early 13th century troubadour.
Jaufre Rudel , major troubadour and
crusader .
Peire d'Alvernhe , second half of the 12th century troubadour.
Comtessa de Dia , 12th century
trobairitz (female troubadour).
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras , 13th century troubadour and knight crusader during the
Fourth crusade .
Arnaut Daniel , late 12th century major troubadour.
Bernard de Ventadour , 12th century major troubadour.
Peire Cardenal , 13th century troubadour.
Antoine de la Sale , 15th century courtier, educator and writer.
Mellin de Saint-Gelais ,
Poet Laureate of
Francis I of France .
Augièr Galhard , 16th century writer.
Clément Marot , 16th century
Renaissance poet.
Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné , early 17th century
Baroque poet.
Bartas , 17th century poet who wrote both in French and in Occitan.
Honoré d'Urfé , 17th century Pastoral writer.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac , 17th century Baroque author.
La Rochefoucauld , 17th century moralist born in Paris to the famous noble
Rochefoucauld family whose origins go back to
Charente , where he had his residence.
Théophile de Viau , 17th century Baroque poet and dramatist.
Cyrano de Bergerac , 17th century novelist and playwright. He was from a
Dordognaise aristocratic family from
Bergerac , although he never lived there in his entire life.
Fénelon , 17th century
Renaissance writer.
Nicolas Chamfort , 18th century poet, member of the
Jacobin club .
Marquis de Sade , 18th century aristocrat,
revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer. Born in Paris, he was the heir of the
Provençal Sade house, one of the oldest family of the region. He was thus Lord of
Saumane ,
Lacoste and Co-Lord of
Mazan where he had several residences, including the famous
Château de Lacoste .
Marquis de Pompignan , 18th century man of letter.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues , 18th century moralist.
Baron de Montesquieu , an important writer and philosopher of the 18th century
Enlightenment .
Jean-François Marmontel , historian and novelist, member of the
Encyclopédistes movement.
Fleury Mesplet , founder of the
Montreal Gazette (1778).
André Chénier , late 18th century poet and figure of
French Romanticism .
Jansemin , 19th century Occitan language poet.
Comte de Lautréamont , 19th century poet born in
Uruguay to François Ducasse (consular officer) and his wife Jacquette-Célestine Davezac, both from Southwestern France from which they returned when Ducasse was thirteen, in
Tarbes and later in
Pau where the poet begun to write his first works.
Émile Augier , 19th century dramatist.
Honoré de Balzac , 19th century
realist writer . Born in
Tours , he was the son of Bernard François Balssa, an administrator from the
Tarn department in South West France, who was despatched to Tours to coordinate supplies for the
Army during the
Directory . François changed his name to the more noble sounding Balzac , and his son Honoré later added — without official recognition — the
nobiliary particle : "de ".
[1] According to
André Maurois and Philibert Auberrand, the original family name Balssa came from the radical bals which in Occitan means "steep rock".
[2]
[3] Another commonly admitted theory is that Balssa came from the Occitan balsan , derived from
Late Latin balteanus , describing a horse with white patches on its paws.
André Antoine , actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic as well as one of the leading member of the
Naturalist movement.
Théophile Gautier , 19th century poet and writer.
Jules Vallès , 19th century writer.
Émile Gaboriau , 19th century writer, journalist and novelist.
Jules Laforgue , 19th century poet.
Maurice de Guérin , 19th century poet.
Alphonse Daudet , 19th century novelist.
Pierre Loti , 19th century novelist and naval officer.
Frédéric Mistral , 19th century and early 20th century Occitan-language poet and 1904
Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Chilean poet
Gabriela Mistral chose her pen name after him.
Théodore Aubanel , 19th century poet.
Edmond Rostand , late 19th century playwright and novelist.
Charles Maurras , late 19th century and 20th century influential poet, author and critic.
Saint-Pol-Roux , 20th century poet.
Paul Valéry , 20th century poet.
Jean Paulhan , 20th century writer and intellectual.
Henri Bosco , 20th century writer.
Pierre Reverdy , 20th century poet.
André Gide , 20th century writer and 1947
Nobel Prize in Literature . Born in Paris, his family was from
Uzès , in the
Gard department. He was from an old Protestant family from Southern France. His father Paul Gide and his uncle
Charles Gide , were both born in Uzès. Gide is a popular last name in the Gard and
Bouches du Rhône departments.
[4]
Francis Jammes , 20th century lyrical poet.
Jean Giraudoux , 20th century novelist, essayist and playwright.
Jules Romains , 20th century poet and writer, founder of the
Unanimism literary movement.
Francis Ponge , 20th century poet and essayist.
Léon Bloy , Christian writer.
Jules Supervielle , 20th century poet.
Jean Anouilh , 20th century playwright.
René Char , 20th century poet.
François Mauriac , 20th century writer and 1952
Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
Marcel Pagnol , 20th century writer.
Marguerite Duras , 20th century writer. Born Marguerite Donnadieu in
French Indochina , she chose her pen name after
Duras , the
commune her parents originated from, in the
Lot-et-Garonne
department .
Jean Giono , 20th century writer.
Antonin Artaud , 20th century dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director.
Pierre Boulle , 20th century writer.
Françoise Sagan , 20th century novelist, screenwriter and playwright.
Marcela Delpastre , 20th century Occitan-language writer.
Jean Vilar , theatre director and actor, founder of the
Festival d'Avignon .
Anne Desclos , 20th century journalist and novelist.
Joan Bodon , 20th century Occitan-language writer. His mother, Albanie Boudou (
née Balssa), was said to be connected by blood with 19th century novelist Honoré de Balzac.
[5]
Jean Echenoz , 20th century writer.
Jean Lacouture , 20th century journalist, historian and author, known for his biographies of famous statesmen (including the likes of
Charles de Gaulle and of
Hô Chi Minh ).
J. M. G. Le Clézio , 20th century writer and poet, 2008
Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
Philippe Sollers , 20th century writer and critic.
René Barjavel , 20th century science fiction author.
Renat Nelli , 20th century writer and founder of the
Institut d'Estudis Occitans .
Romain Puertolas , contemporary writer.
Charles Dantzig , contemporary writer.
Philosophers and thinkers
Favorinus , Roman
skeptical philosopher.
Isaac the Blind , medieval
kabbalistic philosopher.
Samuel ibn Tibbon , medieval philosopher and doctor.
Gersonides , medieval philosopher,
Talmudist , mathematician, physician, astronomer and astrologer.
Étienne de La Boétie , judge, writer and philosopher known for his
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude .
Michel de Montaigne , one of the most influential writers of the
French Renaissance . He is known for popularizing the essay as a
literary genre .
Pierre Bayle , philosopher and writer, forerunner of the
Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the
Enlightenment .
Pierre Gassendi , philosopher and mathematician. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile
Epicureanism
atomism with Christianity.
Jean Domat ,
rationalist jurist.
Blaise Pascal , mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and
Christian philosopher .
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès , essayist and political theorist of the French Revolution. He also made significant theoretical contributions to the nascent
social sciences .
Pierre Jean George Cabanis , 18th-century
physiologist and
Materialist philosopher.
Auguste Comte , philosopher, he was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of
positivism .
Charles Bernard Renouvier , 19th-century philosopher.
Lou Andreas-Salomé , female psychoanalyst, born in Russia to German parents from partly
Huguenot descent that originated from
Avignon .
Jean Hyppolite , philosopher, known for championing the work of
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel .
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , philosopher and
Jesuit
priest , who trained as a
paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of
Peking Man . He conceived the idea of the
Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed
Vladimir Vernadsky 's concept of
noosphere .
Louis Lavelle , 20th-century philosopher, influenced by
Continental philosophy and Spiritualism.
Jean Cavaillès , 20th-century philosopher and mathematician who took part in the
French Resistance within the
Libération movement. He came from a long line of
Huguenot
officers from the South West of France. His last name, Cavaillès , derivates from cavalh , the Occitan word for horse .
Henri Lefebvre , 20th-century
Marxist philosopher and sociologist.
Jean-Paul Sartre , 20th-century philosopher, playwright, novelist and political activist. Born in Paris, his father originated from
Thiviers , in
Dordogne where young Sartre spent his holidays.
[6] His last name Sartre, came from "satre" , the occitan word for "tailor" .
Paul Ricœur , 20th Century philosopher, best known for combining
phenomenological description with
hermeneutics .
Maurice Merleau-Ponty , 20th-century
phenomenological philosopher.
Henri Lefebvre ,
Marxist philosopher and
sociologist .
Georges Canguilhem , philosopher and physician, specialized in the
philosophy of science .
Georges Bataille , 20th-century influential intellectual and literary figure.
Pierre Bourdieu , sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher, his sociological work is dominated by the analysis of the reproduction mechanisms of the social
hierarchies .
Jean Wahl , 20th century
existentialist philosopher and scholar.
Michel Serres , 20th-century philosopher, his works are generally focused on the
scientific progress and its effect on our society.
Georges Dumézil , comparative
philologist . He was born in Paris to a
Girondin family from Bayon.
René Girard , 20th-century
anthropological philosopher , historian and literary critic.
Jean Carbonnier , 20th century prominent
jurist .
Jacques Ellul , 20th-century philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and
Christian anarchist .
Alain Badiou , 20th-century
marxist philosopher. Born in
French Morocco , his father Raymond Badiou was mayor of
Toulouse from 1944 to 1958. His last name, Badiou , comes from the Occitan badiu for simpleton .
[7]
Daniel Bensaïd , 20th-century
Trotskyist philosopher.
Marcel Conche , contemporary philosopher, specialist of
Heraclite and
Pre-Socratic philosophy .
Jean-Luc Nancy , contemporary philosopher.
Scientists
Tacitus ,
Roman historian, author of the
Annals and the
Histories , probably born in
Gallia Narbonensis .
Gennadius of Massilia , 5th century Christian priest, polemist, theologian and historian.
Pope Sylvester II , prolific scholar and teacher who endorsed and promoted study of Arab and
Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy, reintroducing to Europe the
abacus and
armillary sphere , which had been lost to Europe.
Gregory of Tours , historian and
Bishop of Tours . He is the main contemporary source for
Merovingian history. His most notable work was his Decem Libri Historiarum or Ten Books of Histories , better known as the Historia Francorum ("History of the
Franks ").
Guy de Chauliac , physician and surgeon, author of the influential treatise
Chirurgia magna .
Jean de Roquetaillade ,
Franciscan
alchemist .
Joseph Justus Scaliger , religious leader and scholar, considered as the father of
chronology .
Bernard Palissy ,
potter ,
Hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for his imitations of
Chinese porcelain .
Nostradamus , apothecary who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He was also a physician.
Oronce Finé , mathematician and cartographer.
Michel Rolle , mathematician, best known for the 1691
Rolle's theorem .
Olivier de Serres , author and major
soil scientist who promoted crop rotation as a way of preserving soil nutrients.
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc , astronomer,
antiquary and savant.
Alexandre de Rhodes ,
Jesuit
missionary and
lexicographer who published the
first trilingual Vietnamese–Portuguese–Latin dictionary in 1651.
Henri Pitot ,
hydraulic engineer , inventor of the
Pitot tube and author of the
Pitot theorem in plane geometry.
Jean Astruc , professor of medicine, who wrote the first great treatise on
syphilis and
venereal diseases .
Pierre de Fermat , amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to
infinitesimal calculus , including his technique of
adequality .
Louis Bertrand Castel , mathematician and physician.
Jean-Antoine Chaptal , chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator and philanthropist, discoverer of the chaptalizatio procedure .
Louis Feuillée , botanist, astronomer and geographer.
Michel Adanson , botanist and naturalist; the
Adansonia , commonly known as the baobab tree, was named after him.
Jean-Baptiste Denys , physician, notable for having performed the first fully documented human
blood transfusion .
Réaumur , scientist who contributed to many different fields, especially
entomology and
metallography .
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , one of the most prominent figure of the late 16th century
Botany .
Charles Plumier , botanist and botany explorer, after whom the Frangipani genus
Plumeria is named.
François Laurent d'Arlandes , pioneer of
hot air ballooning .
Montgolfier brothers , inventors of the Montgolfière-style
hot air balloon .
Jean-Charles de Borda , mathematician and physicist, he developed the
Borda count voting system and contributed to the construction of the standard metre , basis of the
metric system .
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , chemist and physicist, famous for his two
gas laws .
François Magendie , physiologist.
Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert , notable
dermatologist .
Élie Cartan , notable mathematician, known for the
closed-subgroup theorem , among other contributions to
group theory and
differential geometry .
Eugène Rouché , mathematician, whom the
Rouché's theorem was named after.
Camille Jordan , mathematician, known for his works on
group theory and for the
Jordan curve theorem . The Jordans are a notable family from
Die where Camille Jordan's father originated from.
Édouard Goursat , mathematician, after whom was named the
Goursat tetrahedron .
Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu , notable geologist after whom was the
Dolomite rock .
François Mignet , historian and protagonist of the
French Revolution about which he wrote a History of the French Revolution in 1824.
Marc Seguin , engineer, inventor of the
wire -
cable
suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine
fire-tube boiler .
Bernard de Montfaucon ,
Benedictine monk regarded as one of the founders of modern
archaeology .
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin , physician who proposed a painless method for executions that eventually inspired the
guillotine .
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis , mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist known for the
Coriolis effect . Born in Paris to a noble Provençal family,
[8] his uncle
Honoré-Gaspard de Coriolis was a local Roman Catholic cleric and historian.
Bertrand Pelletier , pharmacist and chemist.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas , chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of
atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and
molecular weights by measuring
vapor densities.
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert , military engineer.
Philippe Pinel , physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients and pioneer of the
moral therapy .
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle , Swiss botanist, he came from one of the oldest noble families of
Provence that moved to Switzerland at the end of the 16th century to escape religious persecution.
Aimé Bonpland , explorer and botanist, who traveled with
Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb , physician, author of the
Coulomb's law . He gave the definition of the
electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion, and did important work on
friction .
Jean-Baptiste Say , economist, famous for his
law of markets . Born in
Lyon , he was from a
Protestant family who originated from
Florac , in
Lozère . The Say family moved to
Nîmes after the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes to finally reach
Geneva , where his father was born. Say was a particularly popular last name in the
Tarn-et-Garonne department at that time and its origins are quite murky.
[9]
Antoine-François Bertrand de Molleville , politician and scientist, inventor of the
secateurs .
René Lesson , surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and
herpetologist .
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand , chemist, physicist, inventor and the first pioneer in modern
parachuting in the world.
Dominique Jean Larrey , considered as the first modern military surgeon.
François-Vincent Raspail , chemist, naturalist, physician and political figure, founder of
Cytochemistry .
François Arago , important mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
Jean Pierre Flourens , physiologist and a pioneer in
anesthesia .
Antoine Bussy , chemist, who is credited to have isolated the element
beryllium , in 1828, the same year as
Friedrich Wöhler .
Élisée Reclus , renowned geographer, writer and
anarchist , precursor of
Social geography .
Alphonse Borrelly , astronomer, who discovered an important number of
asteroids and
comets , including the periodic comet
19P/Borrelly .
Philippe de Girard , uncredited inventor of the
Tin canning process and inventor of the first flax
spinning frame in 1810. The industrial town of
Żyrardów in Poland was thus named after him.
Antoine Jérôme Balard , chemist, one of the discoverers of
bromine .
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard , physician and pedagogue, notably credited with describing the first case of
Tourette syndrome . He was also educator of the deaf, and experienced his theories in the celebrated case of
Victor of Aveyron .
Frédéric Bastiat , economist,
classical liberalist , he developed the economic concept of
opportunity cost , and introduced the
Parable of the broken window .
Pierre Frédéric Sarrus , mathematician, known for having developed the
Sarrus linkage .
Jean-François Champollion , decipherer of the
Egyptian hieroglyphs .
Paulin Talabot , railway and canal engineer.
Pierre André Latreille , famous
zoologist , specialising in arthropods.
Antoine Marfan , one of the most important figures of modern
pediatrics and first describer of the
Marfan syndrome .
Henri Fabre ,
aviator and inventor of the first successful
seaplane , the
Fabre Hydravion .
Charles Cros , poet and inventor, best known for being the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the
Paleophone .
Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré , botanist who made several expeditions in Oceania and South America.
Jean Cruveilhier , pathologist and anatomist.
Joseph Monier , gardener and one of the principal inventors of
reinforced concrete .
Guillaume Dupuytren , anatomist and military surgeon.
Gabriel Tarde , sociologist, criminologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals.
Georges Sagnac , physicist who lent his name to the
Sagnac effect .
Édouard Roche , astronomer and mathematician, best known for his work in
celestial mechanics .
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran , chemist, discoverer of
gallium ,
samarium and
dysprosium .
André-Louis Cholesky , mathematician and military officer, best known for the
Cholesky decomposition in linear algebra.
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval , physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil
D'Arsonval galvanometer and the
thermocouple
ammeter .
Auguste Charlois , astronomer, who discovered around 99
asteroids .
Jean Gaston Darboux , mathematician, he made several important contributions to
geometry and
mathematical analysis .
Arthur Fallot , physician, who described in detail the four anatomical characteristics of the
tetralogy of Fallot .
Alphonse Beau de Rochas , engineer who originated the principle of the
four-stroke
internal-combustion engine .
Émile Borel , mathematician, known for being along with
Henri Lebesgue and
René-Louis Baire one of the pioneers of the
measure theory and its application to
probability theory . He was also a politician and member of the
French Resistance , and is regarded as one of the precursors of the
European idea .
Édouard Lartet , palaeontologist and one of the founders of modern palaeontology.
Ernest Fourneau , medicinal chemist who made major contributions to the discovery of synthetic
local anesthetics , as well as in the synthesis of
suramin .
Jean Favard , mathematician, best known for the
Favard constant .
Alfred Binet , psychologist who invented the first practical
intelligence test , the Binet–Simon scale.
Claude Gay , prominent botanist and naturalist of the Chilean flora.
Michel Chevalier , engineer and economist.
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq , mathematician and physician who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics and heat. He is the first developer of the
Korteweg–de Vries equation .
Albert Calmette
ForMemRS , physician,
bacteriologist and
immunologist , who discovered the
Bacillus Calmette–Guérin used in the
BCG vaccine against
tuberculosis and conceived the first
antivenom for snake
venom known as the Calmette's serum.
Émile Duclaux ,
microbiologist and chemist.
Louis Mékarski , engineer and inventor who patented the
Mekarski system of compressed-air powered trams.
Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron , one of the pioneers of
color photography .
Jean-Henri Fabre , prominent entomologist.
Gaston Planté , physicist who invented the
lead–acid battery in 1859. The lead-acid battery eventually became the first
rechargeable electric battery marketed for commercial use.
Guillaume Bigourdan , astronomer who won the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1919.
Clément Ader , aviation precursor.
Charles Fabry , physicist, co-inventor of the
Fabry–Pérot interferometer .
Bernard Brunhes , geophysicist who discovered the Earth's magnetic field reversals.
Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician, best known for his works in
logic , born in
Coni , in Piedmontese Occitania.
Georges Jean Marie Darrieus ,
aeronautical engineer and inventor of the
Darrieus rotor .
Paul Vidal de La Blache , one of the most prominent figure of modern French geography.
Pierre Paul Émile Roux , physician, bacteriologist and immunologist as well as co-founder of the
Pasteur Institute and responsible for the Institute's production of the anti-
diphtheria serum.
Eugène Freyssinet ,
structural and civil engineer, precursor of
prestressed concrete .
Paul Broca , physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist.
Madeleine Brès , the first French woman, and one of the first in Europe, to obtain a medical degree.
Paul Sabatier , chemist, awarded of the 1912
Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with
Victor Grignard .
Jean Cabannes , physicist, specializing in
optics .
Paul Dirac , English
theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both
quantum mechanics and
quantum electrodynamics . His paternal family originated from
Dirac ,
[10] in South West France, and moved to Switzerland after the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes to finally join
Bristol where Paul was born.
Henri Dulac , mathematician who refined the
Bendixson–Dulac theorem .
Olinde Rodrigues , mathematician, best known for the
Rodrigues' rotation formula in vectors.
Marcellin Boule ,
palaeontologist .
André Lichnerowicz ,
differential geometer and
mathematical physicist .
Jacques Cousteau , French naval officer and explorer who co-developed the
Aqua-Lung , pioneered
marine conservation and helped to popularize
Oceanography throughout the world.
Pierre Ossian Bonnet , mathematician, best known for the
Gauss–Bonnet theorem .
Paul Montel , mathematician, known for his notion of
Normal family .
Célestin Freinet , prominent
pedagogue and
educational reformer .
Gaston Julia , mathematician, born in French Algeria to a Pyrenean family.
René Grousset , historian and prominent specialist in Asian history.
Germaine Tillion ,
ethnologist and Resistant.
Jean Dausset ,
immunologist , awarded the 1980
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with
Baruj Benacerraf and
George Davis Snell .
Edmond Malinvaud , economist.
Michel Raynaud , mathematician.
Maurice Duverger , sociologist and jurist, who developed the
Duverger's law .
Alexander Grothendieck German-born French mathematician who grew up in Montpellier where he attended the municipal
University and lived for the rest of his live in
Ariège as a hermit, until his death in 2014.
Alfred Sauvy , demographer, anthropologist and historian who first coined the term
Third World .
Jean-Marie Souriau , mathematician, known for works in
symplectic geometry , in which he was one of the pioneers.
Jean-Pierre Serre , mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to
algebraic topology ,
algebraic geometry , and
algebraic number theory . He was awarded the
Fields Medal in 1954, the
Wolf Prize in 2000 and the
Abel Prize in 2003, making him one of four mathematicians to achieve this (along with
Pierre Deligne ,
John Milnor , and
John G. Thompson ).
Jacques Le Goff , historian and eminent specialist of the
Middle Ages , most specifically the 12th and 13th centuries.
André Neveu , physicist who co-invented the
Neveu–Schwarz algebra and the
Gross–Neveu model .
Jacques-Louis Lions , mathematician, awarded of the 1991
Japan Prize and
Harvey Prize . He is listed as an
ISI highly cited researcher . He was elected president of the
International Mathematical Union in 1991.
Robèrt Lafont , linguist.
Frank Merle , mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations and mathematical physics, awarded of the 2005
Bôcher Prize .
Albert Fert , physicist, one of the discoverers of
giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in
gigabyte
hard disks , awarded of the 2007
Nobel Prize in Physics , together with
Peter Grünberg .
Alain Connes , mathematician, who revolutionized the
Von Neumann algebra , resolving major problems on this field, notably the classification of the Type III factors. He was awarded of the 1982
Fields Medal .
Pierre-Paul Grassé , zoologist.
Bernard Gregory , physicist, former director-general of
CERN .
Christian Metz , film theorist and semiologist.
Pierre-Louis Lions , mathematician, who received the 1994
Fields Medal for his works on nonlinear
partial differential equations .
Michel Talagrand , mathematician, specializing in
functional analysis and probability theory.
Alain Colmerauer ,
computer scientist and creator of the
logic programming language
Prolog .
Michel Broué , mathematician, specializing in
algebraic geometry and
representation theory .
Cédric Villani , mathematician, awarded of the 2010
Fields Medal for his works on
partial differential equations and
mathematical physics .
Jean-Jacques Laffont , economist, specializing in
public economics and
information economics , he was awarded of the 1993
Yrjö Jahnsson prize along with his colleague and collaborator
Jean Tirole .
Jean-Loup Chrétien , retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the
Armée de l'Air (French air force), and former
CNES
spationaut .
Henry de Lumley , notable contemporary archeologist and prehistorian.
Alain Carpentier , surgeon, who is given credit for the development of the first fully implantable
artificial heart .
Alfred A. Tomatis , prominent
otolaryngologist and inventor.
André Turcat , Air Force pilot and
test pilot .
Catherine Cesarsky , astronomer and former president of the
International Astronomical Union .
Boris Cyrulnik , doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist.
Alain Aspect , physicist, known for his works on
Bell test experiments .
Bernard Maris , economist, murdered on 7 January 2015, during the
Charlie Hebdo shooting .
Haïm Brezis , mathematician, fellow of the
American Mathematical Society since 2012.
Arnaud Denjoy , mathematician, who first defined the
Denjoy integral .
Jérôme Rota ,
software developer , co-founder of
DivX, Inc.
Thierry Aubin , mathematician, leading expert on
Riemannian geometry .
Lucien Le Cam , mathematician, best known for
Le Cam's theorem in
probability theory .
Jean-Jacques Moreau , mathematician and mechanician. He discovered the
helicity invariant in
fluid dynamics .
Jacqueline Ferrand , mathematician, who mainly worked on
Riemannian manifolds .
Jacques Marescaux , surgeon, believed to be the first one in the world to operate a person without leaving a scar.
Artists
Trophime Bigot , late 16th century Baroque painter.
Pierre Puget , 17th century
Baroque painter and sculptor.
Louis-Michel van Loo , 18th century painter and portraitist.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard , 18th-century
rococo painter and
printmaker .
Claude Joseph Vernet , 18th-century painter.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , 19th-century
neoclassical painter.
Auguste Renoir , 19th-century artist, one of the leading painter in the development of the
Impressionist style.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , 19th-century
post-impressionist painter, printmaker,
draughtsman and illustrator.
Rosa Bonheur , 19th-century
realist painter.
Frédéric Bazille , 19th-century
impressionist painter.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau , 19th-century
academic painter.
Odilon Redon , 19th-century
symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and
pastellist .
Alexandre Cabanel , 19th-century academic painter.
Jean-Paul Laurens , 19th-century academic painter and sculptor.
Honoré Daumier , printmaker,
caricaturist , painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
Paul Cézanne , 19th-century post-impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
Suzanne Valadon , 19th-century and early 20th-century.
Arthur Batut , early 20th-century photographer and pioneer of
aerial photography .
Eugène Atget , early 20th-century photographer, regarded as one of the pioneer of documentary photography.
Sem , early 20th-century caricaturist.
Albert Marquet , 20th-century
Fauvist painter.
Aristide Maillol , 20th-century sculptor, painter and printmaker.
Antoine Bourdelle , 20th-century sculptor, painter, and teacher.
Yves Klein , 20th-century artist, considered an important figure in post-war European art.
César , 20th-century sculptor and member of the
Nouveau Réalisme .
Arman , 20th-century painter, sculptor and printmaker, member of the Nouveau Réalisme.
Lucien Clergue , photographer.
Edmund Dulac , magazine illustrator and stamp designer.
Pierre Soulages , painter,
engraver and sculptor.
Jean Dieuzaide , photographer.
Sempé , cartoonist.
Daniel Goossens , cartoonist.
Architects
Guillaume Cammas , 18th-century painter and architect, author of the
Capitole de Toulouse 's facade.
Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe , who became
Catherine II official court architect and mainly worked in
Saint-Petersburg .
Jean Nouvel , he obtained the
Aga Khan Award for Architecture , the
Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the
Pritzker Prize in 2008.
Pascal Coste , architect, who knew success in his hometown of Marseille.
Dominique Perrault , urban planner and architect, known for the design of the
French National Library .
Paul Andreu , architect, known for his designs of airports.
Musicians
Jean de Sainte-Colombe , 17th century celebrated master of the
Viol .
André Campra , late 17th century and early 18th century composer and conductor.
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville , 18th century composer and
violinist .
Gabriel Fauré , 19th- and early 20th-century Post-romantic composer and organist.
Déodat de Séverac , 19th- and early 20th-century
Impressionist composer, influenced in his works by his native
Languedoc .
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll , 19th-century prominent
organ builder .
Emmanuel Chabrier , 19th-century Romantic composer.
Hortense Schneider , 19th-century
operetta star.
Marius Petipa , 19th-century influential ballet choreographer.
Joseph Canteloube , 20th-century composer and
musicologist .
André Messager , 20th-century composer.
Lily Pons , 20th-century popular Opera
soprano .
Georges Auric , 20th-century composer. Member of
Les Six .
Darius Milhaud , 20th-century composer and teacher. Member of
Les Six .
Emma Calvé ,
Belle Époque star soprano.
Olivier Messiaen , 20th-century composer and organist.
Michel Petrucciani , 20th-century
jazz pianist.
Maurice Ravel , 20th-century composer, pianist and conductor.
David Fray , classical pianist.
Jean-Claude Malgoire , 20th century conductor.
Maurice Béjart , prominent choreographer and opera director.
Maurice André ,
trumpeter .
Benjamin Millepied , dancer and choreographer.
Les Ablettes , 20th-century punk rock band.
Alidé Sans [
fr ]
Alonzo
Marcel Amont , 20th-century French singer and Occitan-language songwriter.
Ève Angeli
Art Mengo
Thierry Amiel
The Avener , DJ and music producer.
Gilbert Bécaud , 20th-century singer.
Priscilla Betti
Guy Bonnet , 20th-century Occitan-language songwriter.
Boulevard des Airs [
fr ]
Georges Brassens , 20th-century songwriter, known for its poetic lyrics and using of black humor.
Alan Braxe , electronic music artist.
Francis Cabrel , 20th-century singer and songwriter.
Cécilia Cara
Cats on Trees
Chinese Man ,
trip hop band.
Cocoon
Collectif Métissé , Soma Riba.
Caroline Costa
Lou Dalfin
Emma Daumas
Anne-Marie David , singer and winner of the 1973
Eurovision Song Contest .
Rosina de Pèira [
fr ]
Dionysos
Diabologum
Julien Doré , singer and songwriter.
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Pauline Ester , 20th-century singer.
Eths
Fabulous Trobadors
Faf Larage
Fascagat
Félicien Taris
Fréro Delavega
Gojira ,
heavy metal band .
Gold
Goulamas'k [
fr ]
Gipsy Kings
Hyphen Hyphen , electro-pop band.
IAM , late 20th-century
hip hop band.
Images
Imany
Jean-Roch , influential DJ.
Joanda
Jul
Kaolin
Marina Kaye
Kazero
Kid Wise
Kungs
Francis Lai , award-winning composer.
La Femme , psych-punk rock band.
La Mal Coiffée , occitan vocal band.
Jean-Jacques Lafon , 20th-century singer.
Marie Laforêt , 20th-century singer.
Francis Lalanne , 20th-century singer.
Serge Lama , 20th-century singer.
Boby Lapointe , 20th-century singer.
M83 ,
electro band .
Jean-Pierre Mader , 20th-century singer.
Christophe Maé , singer and songwriter.
Mans de Breish , 20th-century Occitan-language songwriter.
Mélissa Mars
Claude Marti , 20th-century Occitan-language songwriter.
Massilia Sound System
Mireille Mathieu , 20th-century singer.
Møme
Moos
Jean-Joseph Mouret , composer from the
Baroque era .
Jean-Louis Murat , singer and songwriter.
Los de Nadau, Occitan-language band from
Gascony (
Béarn ), one of the main band of
Nòva cançon in the 1970s.
Les Naufragés [
fr ] , Spi et la Gaudriole, folk band (ex-
OTH ).
Noir Désir , 20th-century rock band.
Claude Nougaro , 20th-century singer and songwriter.
Oai Star [
fr ]
OTH , 20th-century punk rock band.
Patric , 20th-century Occitan-language songwriter.
Sabine Paturel
Panzer Flower , electro-pop band.
Partenaire Particulier , electronic and new wave band.
Pierre Perret , 20th-century singer and songwriter.
Stéphane Pompougnac , DJ and record producer.
Sylvie Pullès
Regg'Lyss
Rinôçérôse
Ringo , 20th-century singer.
Dick Rivers , 20th-century singer.
Gaëtan Roussel
Olivia Ruiz
Patrick Sébastien , 20th-century singer.
Hélène Ségara , 20th-century singer.
Jean Ségurel
Émilie Simon , singer and composer of electronic music.
Soko , singer and songwriter.
Soprano
Stéphanie
Stille Volk
Michèle Torr , 20th-century singer.
Charles Trenet , 20th-century singer and songwriter.
Wazoo
Zebda
Statesmen, entrepreneurs, religious figures and activists
Lucius Caesar , grandson and successor of
Augustus who unexpectedly died at the age of 18, compelling Augustus to redraw the line of succession by adopting
Tiberius .
Marcus Antonius Primus , Roman senator who took an important part as a general in the 69
Civil war .
Saint Sebastian , early Christian
saint and
martyr from
Gallia Narbonensis .
Victor of Marseilles , saint of the
Catholic Church and the
Eastern Orthodox Church .
Saint Faith , saint and martyr during
Diocletian persecution of the Christians.
Constantine II ,
Roman Emperor from 337 to 340
Alaric II , second king of the Visigoths.
Saint Eligius , Catholic Saint and
Patron saint of the
goldsmiths .
Gesalec , king of the
Visigoths from 507 to 511.
William I of Provence , Count of Provence, leader of the 973
Battle of Tourtour that expelled the
Al-Andalusi pirates out of
Fraxinetum .
Richard I , 12th-century
King of
England , spent most of his life in
Aquitaine and spoke Occitan language. He was an important
patron of the troubadours.
Garsenda , 12th-century countess and trobairitz.
Eleanor of Aquitaine , 12th-century
Duchess of Aquitaine ,
Queen consort of France and later
Queen consort of England , often regarded as one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the
High Middle Ages .
Beatrice de Planissoles ,
Cathar minor noble.
Saint Roch , Catholic saint and
confessor .
Bernard Gui , Papal
inquisitor , diplomat and historian.
Pope Clement V , Pope from 5 June 1305 to 1314, he started the
Avignon Papacy .
Pope John XXII , Pope from 1316 to 1334.
Pope Benedict XII , Pope from 1334 to 1342.
Pope Clement VI , Pope from 1342 to 1352.
Pope Innocent VI , Pope from 1352 to 1362.
Pope Urban V , Pope from 1362 to 1370.
Pope Gregory XI , Pope from 1370 to 1379 and last Avignon Pope.
Richard II of England , 14th- century King of England who inspired
Shakespeare 's
play .
William Farel ,
evangelist ,
Protestant reformer and a founder of the
Reformed Church in the Principality of
Neuchâtel and in the Republic of
Geneva .
Francis I of France , 16th-century first King of France from the
Angoulême branch who paved the way for the
French Renaissance .
Marguerite de Navarre , 16th-century princess of France and patron of
Humanists and reformers. She is sometimes regarded as the "First Modern Woman" due to her independence and important role in the spreading of the
Renaissance in the French Kingdom.
Jeanne d'Albret , 16th-century
Queen regnant of
Navarre and a key-figure of
Protestantism in France.
Henry IV of France , 16th-century
King of
France , known as Le Bon Roi Henri (Good King Henry ), he remains one of the most emblematic King of France, notably for having been raised in the
Protestant faith .
Vincent de Paul ,
Roman Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor.
Jean Nicot , diplomat and scholar who introduced
snuff tobacco to the French royal court. The tobacco plant,
Nicotiana , a flowering garden plant, was named after him by
Carl Linnaeus , as was
nicotine .
Henri Arnaud , 17th-century pastor of the
Waldensians in
Piedmont .
Pierre-Esprit Radisson , explorer and fur trader, co-founder of the
Hudson's Bay Company .
Olympe de Gouges , 18th-century activist, known as one of the pioneer of
Feminism .
Louis de Bonald , 18th-century politician, a
counter-revolutionary and
conservator , known for his
social theories that would later inspire Sociology.
Paul Barras , main executive leader of the
Directory regime.
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne , churchman, politician and finance minister of
Louis XVI .
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau , leader of the early stages of the
French Revolution .
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès , nobleman and lawyer, who headed the special commission in charge of establishing the
Napoleonic Code .
Charles XIV John of Sweden (Jean Bernadotte), 19th-century
Jacobines leader ,
Marshal of France , later King Charles XIV of Sweden and founder of the
House of Bernadotte , the current royal family of Sweden.
Désirée Clary , Queen of Sweden and of
Norway .
Adolphe Thiers , statesman, who came to epitomize by his life-long political career — during which he served under the
monarchy , the
republic and the
Empire — the tumultuous dynamics of the 19th century politics in France.
Louis Auguste Blanqui , socialist and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of
Blanquism .
François Guizot , historian, orator and statesman, key figure in French politics prior to the
Revolution of 1848 .
Léon Gambetta , 19th-century
Prime minister of France , a prominent political figure during and after the difficult period of the
Franco-Prussian War , viewed as a humiliation by the French. He was also the proclaimer of the
Third Republic .
Bernadette Soubirous ,
Christian mystic and
Saint . After her
visions ,
Lourdes went on to become a major pilgrimage site.
Charles Dupuy , 19th-century statesman, three times Prime Minister of France.
Marie François Sadi Carnot , 19th-century statesman and fifth president of the Third Republic.
Charles de Freycinet , early 20th-century statesman, four times Prime Minister of France.
Théodore Steeg , 20th-century
Radical politician.
Armand Fallières , 20th-century statesman and
president of the French republic from 1906 to 1913.
Jean Jaurès , 20th-century statesman and one of the most important figure of the
French Left .
Émile Combes , statesman, who led the French Left political coalition
Bloc des gauches 's cabinet from June 1902 – January 1905.
Gaston Doumergue , 20th-century statesman. He was the
13th
President of France .
Vincent Auriol , 20th-century French
president . He was the first president of the
Fourth Republic .
André and
Édouard Michelin ,
industrialists and founders of the
Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin in 1888 in Clermont-Ferrand.
Édouard Daladier , French
Radical politician and
Prime Minister of France at the start of the
Second World War .
François Darlan , 20th-century
Prime minister of France during the pro-German
Vichy regime .
Jean Moulin , hero of the
French resistance .
Gabriel Péri , Communist journalist and prominent Resistant, arrested and shot by the German occupier at the
Forteresse du Mont-Valérien .
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade , Resistant.
Georges Loustaunau-Lacau , Resistant.
Germaine Tillion , Resistant.
Claude de Baissac , agent of the
Special Operations Executive .
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan , fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah,
Aga Khan III .
Jean Monnet , 20th-century political economist and diplomat. He is regarded by many as the chief architect of
European unity and the founding father of the European Union.
René Cassin , 1968
Nobel Peace Prize for his work in drafting the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights , adopted by the United Nations
United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.
Georges Pompidou , 20th-century French president.
Jeanne Calment ,
supercentenarian who has the
longest confirmed human lifespan on record .
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark , husband of
Queen
Margrethe II .
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , 20th-century French president.
Simone Veil , 20th-century lawyer and politician, survivor from the
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , she is primary known as the mother of the law legalizing
abortion in France on 17 January 1975.
Jean-Luc Lagardère , founder and former CEO of the
Lagardère Group .
François Mitterrand , President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was, therefore, the longest-serving President of France and the first one from the Left under the Fifth Republic.
Claude Bébéar , founder and former CEO of
AXA .
Bernard Kouchner , politician and physician, co-founder of
Medecins Sans Frontiers .
Michel Camdessus , applied economist and managing director of the
IMF from 1987 to 2000, which makes him the longest serving managing director of this international institution.
Lucien Barrière , heir and founder of the
Lucien Barrière group .
François Bayrou , leader of the
centrist
political party
MoDem .
Francis Bouygues , businessman and film producer, founder of
Bouygues .
Ives Roqueta , Occitan-language author and activist.
Max Roqueta , Occitan-language activist, former president of the
Institut d'études occitanes (Occitan research Institute).
Daniel Cohn-Bendit , French-German politician.
Michel Ancel ,
video game designer , creator of the
Rayman game series.
Frédérick Raynal , video game designer, creator of 1992 game
Alone in the Dark .
Sport and dance
Marie Sallé , 18th century dancer
Jules Léotard , 19th century
Acrobatic performer who developed the art of
trapeze
Madame Saqui , 19th century popular
funambulist
Mathieu Ganio ,
Danseur Étoile of the
Paris Opera Ballet
Bernard Laporte ,
rugby union coach and former French Secretary of State for Sport. He was head coach of the
France national team , the head coach at
Rugby Club Toulonnais and president of the French Rugby Union.
Claude Onesta ,
handball coach and responsible of France's Men's handball team since 2001. He has won titles in major competitions such as
The Olympics ,
The World Championship , and
The European Championship .
Claude Puel , current head coach of the
OGC Nice
Louis Chiron , successful first half of the 20th century racing driver, after whom was named the
Bugatti Chiron
Gustave Sandras , gymnast, first Olympic gold medal in
gymnastics of all time, in 1900
Jean-Pierre Rives , former rugby union footballer. "A cult figure in France," according to the BBC, he came to epitomise the team's spirit and "ultra-committed, guts-and-glory style of play. He was awarded the
Order of the Legion of Honor and was inducted into the
International Rugby Hall of Fame . He is one of the most emblematic rugby union footballers of all time and described by Australian actor
Hugh Jackman as "A small guy on the field, he finished every game with blood on face".
Philippe Sella , former rugby league and rugby union footballer. An important figure of the French rugby union team as well as the
London Saracens . He later became a member of the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 1999 and the
IRB Hall of Fame in 2008.
Several rugby union footballers are members of the IRB Hall of Fame such as
Jean Prat ,
Jo Maso and
André Boniface as well as contemporary players like
Yannick Jauzion ,
Fabien Pelous ,
William Servat ,
Cédric Heymans ,
Maxime Médard ,
Aurélien Rougerie ,
Dimitri Szarzewski ,
Yoann Huget and
Hugo Bonneval
Adolphe Bousquet , two times Olympic medalist in rugby union
Daniel Elena , rally
co-driver of
Sébastien Loeb who owns the most victories in the history of the WRC
Guy Lacombe , 1984 Olympic champion in football
François Borde , Olympic medalist in rugby union
Several professional swimmers such as Olympic champions
Camille Lacourt ,
Clément Lefert ,
Alain Bernard and
Yannick Agnel
Renaud Lavillenie ,
pole vaulter , Olympic champion, and current
world record holder
Tony Estanguet ,
slalom canoeist , multiple times
Olympic gold medalist
Colette Besson , Olympic champion athlete
Joël Bouzou , 1987 World Champion of
modern pentathlon
Herman Georges Berger , fencer, 1908 Olympic champion in
épée competition
Nicole Duclos , athlete
Joseph Guillemot , Olympic champion long-distance runner
Stéphane Diagana , world champion athlete
Sébastien Ogier , rally driver and current holder of the
World Rally Drivers' Championship
Nicolas Vouilloz , former rally driver
Gustave Garrigou , cyclist and Tour de France winner
Antonin Magne , cyclist and Tour de France winner
Roger Lapébie , cyclist and Tour de France winner
Jean-Christophe Péraud , cyclist, second of the 2014 overall Tour de France
Raymond Poulidor , iconic cyclist, known as The Eternal Second
Romain Bardet , cyclist
Manuel Busto , cyclist
Jules Merviel , cyclist
Lucien Aimar , cyclist who won the 1966
Tour de France
Charles Coste , cyclist and Olympic medalist
Johanne Defay ,
surfer who won three
World Surf League events
Guillaume Néry ,
free-diver
Alain Giresse , retired international footballer and member of the
Euro 84 winning team
Eric Cantona , former
International footballer and important player of
Manchester United F.C. in the mid-1990s
David Ginola , former international footballer
Zinedine Zidane , former international footballer
Laurent Blanc , former international footballer
Didier Deschamps , former international footballer
Vincent Candela , former international footballer
Fabien Barthez , former international footballer
Johan Micoud , former international footballer and member of the
Euro 2000 winning team
Gaël Clichy , international footballer, currently plays for
Manchester City F.C.
Philippe Mexès , international footballer, currently plays for
Milan
Samir Nasri , international footballer, currently plays for
Manchester City F.C.
Mathieu Flamini , international footballer, currently plays for
Arsenal F.C.
Aymeric Laporte , professional footballer, currently plays for
Athletic Bilbao
Blaise Matuidi , international footballer, currently plays for
Paris Saint-Germain
Lucas Hernandez , international footballer, currently plays for
Atlético Madrid
Hugo Lloris , international footballer, currently plays for
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Laurent Koscielny , international footballer, currently plays for
Arsenal F.C.
Several handball players such as
Xavier Barachet ,
Michaël Guigou ,
William Accambray ,
Théo Derot and
Jérôme Fernandez
Richard Gasquet and
Gilles Simon , tennis players
Alexandra Lacrabère , female handball player
Thomas Heurtel , international basketball player from
Anadolu Efes Istanbul
Louis François , Greco-Roman wrestler
Céline Dumerc ,
Sandrine Gruda and
Paoline Salagnac , female basketball players
Yoann Jaumel ,
Earvin N'Gapeth ,
Pierre Pujol and
Kévin Tillie , international
volleyball players
Martin Fourcade , Olympic champion
biathlete
Adrien Hardy , Olympic medalist
rower
Brigitte Guibal , Olympic medalist slalom canoer
Marion Bartoli , former professional tennis player and winner of the
2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title
Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola and
Christian d'Oriola , Olympic medalists in
fencing
Jérémie Azou , Olympic champion in rowing
Guy de Luget , Olympic medalist in fencing
Dominique Sarron and
Christian Sarron ,
Grand Prix motorcycle
road racers
Gabriella Papadakis , Olympic medalist in
ice dancing
Émilie Andéol ,
judoka
Martin Braud and
Cédric Forgit ,
slalom canoer
Annie Famose ,
Alpine skier and Olympic medalist
Marielle Goitschel , Alpine skier and Olympic champion
Isabelle Delobel , ice dancer
François Gabart , professional offshore yacht racer who won the 2012–13
Vendée Globe
Audrey Prieto , female
freestyle wrestler
Gauthier de Tessières ,
alpine ski racer
Emmanuel Hostache , 1999 Olympic champion in
bobsleigh
Claude Piquemal , athlete
Wilfrid Forgues , Olympic medalist slalom canoer
René Thomas , early 20th-century motor racing champion
Mathieu Crépel , professional
snowboarder
Isabelle Blanc , snowboarder and Olympic champion
Erwann Le Péchoux , world champion in fencing
Marie-Laure Brunet , Olympic biathlete
Xavier de Le Rue , big mountain snowboarder
Doriane Vidal , snowboarder and Olympic medalist
Pierre Vaultier , snowboarder and Olympic champion
Marie Marvingt , athlete, mountaineer, aviator and journalist
Johann Zarco ,
Grand Prix motorcycle racer
René Arnoux , motor
racing driver
Joris Daudet , cyclist, 1997 and 2016 World Cup overall title winner in BMX
Cyril Abidi , kickboxer
Jules Bianchi , motor racing driver
Puig Aubert , prominent
rugby league figure
Richard Tardits , former American football
linebacker for the
New England Patriots of the
NFL
Boris Bede , Canadian football player
Bruce Bochy , former baseball player and current manager of the
San Francisco Giants
Jehan Buhan , Olympic champion in
foil competition
Jacques Lataste , two times Olympic champion in the team foil competition
Jean-Claude Magnan , Olympic champion in foil competition
Pascale Trinquet , Olympic champion in foil competition
Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin , Olympic champion in the team foil competition
Lionel Plumenail , Olympic champion in the team foil competition
Roger François , 1928 Olympic champion in weightlifting
Jean-Noël Ferrari , Olympic champion in the team foil competition
Guy Lapébie , cyclist, two times Olympic Champion in
4000m team pursuit and in Team road race
Arnaud Geyre , racing cyclist, Olympic champion in cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
men's team road race
Serge Maury , sailor, 1972 Olympic champion in the
finn class .
Gaston Aumoitte , Olympic champion in
Croquet
Maurice Larrouy , Olympic champion in
Shooting
Marguerite Broquedis , 1912 Olympic champion in tennis
Jean Boiteux , 1952 Olympic champion in
freestyle swimming
Camille Muffat , 2012 Olympic champion in
freestyle swimming
Henri Deglane , Olympic champion in
Greco-Roman wrestling
Marie-Claire Restoux , 1996 Olympic champion in judo
Boris Sanson , Olympic champion in
team fencing
Nicolas Lopez , Olympic champion in team fencing
André Labatut , Olympic champion in the foil and
épée competitions
René Bougnol , Olympic champion in the team foil event
Émile Coste , Olympic champion in the individual foil event
Pierre Durand, Jr. , 1988 Olympic champion in
equestrian individual jumping
Jean Teulère , Olympic champion in
equestrian team eventing
Charles Coste , 1948 Olympic champion in
team puruit
Fernand Decanali , 1948 Olympic champion in team pursuit
Frank Adisson , 1996 Olympic champion in slalom canoeing
Benoît Peschier , 2004 Olympic champion in slalom canoeing
Sébastien Vieilledent , Olympic champion in rowing
Charles Leclerc , racing driver
Michel Andrieux 2000 Olympic champion in rowing
Laurent Porchier , Olympic champion in rowing
Bernard Malivoire , Olympic champion in rowing
Virginie Dedieu , Olympic medalist in synchronized swimming
Jean-Philippe Gatien , Olympic silver medalist in table tennis
Astier Nicolas and
Mathieu Lemoine , Olympic champion during the
2016 equestrian Team eventing
Dominique Gardères , horse rider, 1900 co-Olympic champion in the high jump event
Didier Courrèges , horse rider, co-Olympic champion in 2004. He was born in
Normandy from a Béarnais background,
[12] and grew up in
Pau .
Denis Gargaud Chanut , Olympic champion in slalom canoeing
Lucas Puig ,
Adidas -sponsored
skateboarder , who made appearance in the
Electronic Arts 's games
Skate It ,
Skate 2 and
Skate 3
David Roumieu , rugby union footballer
Richard Jouve , Olympic medalist in
Cross-country skiing
Perrine Laffont , Olympic champion in
mogul skiing
Jack LaLanne , American fitness expert, he came from a Béarnais background from
Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Cinema and actors
William Abadie , actor.
Ariane Ascaride , actress and screenwriter.
Lionnel Astier, film and television actor, famous for his role of Léodagan in
Kaamelot . Lionnel Astier is the father of
Alexandre Astier .
Jacques de Baroncelli , film director of the Silent film era.
Emmanuelle Béart , actress and model.
Bertrand Bonello , film director, member of the
New French Extremity movement.
Sandrine Bonnaire , actress, film director and screenwriter.
Charles Boyer , 20th-century actor who had a successful carrier at
Hollywood where he played in movies like
The Garden of Allah along with actresses such as
Marlene Dietrich and
Hedy Lamarr .
Robert Bresson , 20th-century film director and probably the most influential figure of the
French New Wave .
Capucine , fashion model and actress.
Georges Carrère, actor.
Jean-Claude Carrière , screenwriter, actor and
Academy Award honoree.
André Cayatte , film director from the Nouvelle Vague who won two
Golden Lions in 1950 and 1960.
Nicolas Cazalé , actor and model.
Timothée Chalamet , American actor. His father's side is from
Nîmes .
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17] He spent his holidays in the family house of
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon .
Delphine Chanéac , model and actress.
René Clément , director and screenwriter.
Mireille Darc , actress and model.
Danielle Darrieux , actress and pop icon who had a successful carrier at Hollywood.
Dugazon , late 18th century theater actor.
François Dupeyron , film director and screenwriter.
Jean Eustache , film director.
Fernandel , 20th-century actor and singer, who played in classic French, Italian and later American movies such as
Paris Holiday or again
Around the World in 80 Days .
Louis Feuillade , 20th-century director of the silent film era.
Rémi Gaillard , famous YouTube
prankster .
Michel Galabru , actor.
Armand Gatti , playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.
Robert Guédiguian , film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
Alain Guiraudie , film director and screenwriter.
Mylène Jampanoï , actress.
Louis Jourdan , film and television actor.
Lou de Laâge , television, film and stage actress.
Bernadette Lafont , actress, famous for her role in 1960s
Nouvelle Vague movies.
Georges Lautner , film director.
Philippe Léotard , actor, poet and singer.
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade , award-winning film director.
Max Linder , 20th-century actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian of the
Silent film era.
Jean-Pierre Malo, actor.
Simone Mareuil , actress, best known for her role in
Luis Buñuel movie
Un Chien Andalou .
Gilles Marini , actor.
Jean-Baptiste Maunier , actor and singer.
Jean-Pierre Mocky , film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
Michel Modo , actor.
Édouard Molinaro , film director and screenwriter.
Clara Morgane , pornographic actress.
Paul Mounet , actor of the early silent film era.
Géraldine Pailhas , actress.
Gina Palerme , actress and dancer of the silent film era.
Gérard Philipe , actor.
Maurice Pialat , film director and screenwriter.
Raimu , actor.
Georges Riquier, actor.
Éric Rohmer , 20th Century film director and one of the most important members of the French New Wave.
Henri Serre , Nouvelle Vague actor.
Maurice Ronet , actor, director, and writer.
Pierre Schoendoerffer , film director, screenwriter, writer, war reporter and war cameraman who won the
Academy Award for Documentary Feature for
The Anderson Platoon .
Barbara Schulz , actress.
Simone Simon , actress.
Audrey Tautou , actress and model, she achieved international recognition for her lead role in the 2001 film
Amélie (2001), and later played in movies such as
Stephen Frears 's
Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and
Ron Howard 's
The Da Vinci Code (2006).
André Téchiné , film director from the late Nouvelle Vague who won the
Best Director Award at
Cannes Film Festival .
Jean-Louis Trintignant , actor, screenwriter and film director.
Jean Vigo , major film director, born in Paris to Languedocian anarchist parents (
Miguel Almereyda ).
Pierre Woodman , major pornographic films director.
Men of war and explorers
Pytheas ,
Greek
geographer from
Massalia , who made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe in about 325 BC.
Vercingetorix , chieftain of the
Arverni tribe who fought against Roman forces during the last phase of
Julius Caesar 's
Gallic Wars at the
Battle of Gergovia . He was probably born either in
Gergovie or Nemossos (nowadays part of
Clermont-Ferrand ).
Avitus ,
Western Roman Emperor from 8 or 9 July 455 to 17 October 456.
Euric , King of the
Visigoths from 466 until his death in 484.
Paulinus of Nola , Roman poet, writer and senator.
Odo the Great , Duke of Aquitaine, one of the leader of the 732
Battle of Tours .
Lupus II of Gascony , Duke of Gascony and commander of the
Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778.
William II Sánchez of Gascony ,
Duke of Gascony from circa 961 at least until 996, he fought during the
Reconquista . He is mainly known to have perpetrated a major defeat of the Vikings at
Taller in 982.
Adhemar of Le Puy , one of the major figures of the First Crusade, known for having carried the
Holy Lance during the
Siege of Antioch in which he took a decisive part.
Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse , one of the leaders of the
First Crusade .
Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn , viscount of Béarn and soldier during the First Crusade.
Mercadier , warrior and chief of mercenaries in service of
Richard I , King of England.
James I of Aragon ,
King of Aragon ,
Count of Barcelona , and
Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276;
King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and
Valencia from 1238 to 1276.
Isabella of Angoulême ,
queen consort of England from 1200 until
John 's death in 1216.
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles , minor noble who was appointed Marshal of France and who distinguished himself during the
Hundred Years' War , notably at the
Battle of Gerberoy .
John II, Duke of Bourbon , commander of the decisive
Hundred Years' War
Battle of Formigny .
La Hire , major military commander of the late the Hundred Years' War and leader of the
Battle of Patay .
Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch , one of the main commander of the Hundred Years' War who was attached to the English side.
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours , military commander who took brilliantly part in the
War of the League of Cambrai .
Jacques de La Palice , nobleman and military commander.
Bertrand de Blanchefort , sixth Grand Master of the
Knights Templar , remembered to have been an important reformer of the Order.
Odo de St Amand , eighth Grand Master of the Knights Templar, remembered for his numerous victories, the most famous one being the victory of the
Battle of Montgisard against
Saladin .
Guillaume de Sonnac , Grand Master of the Knights Templar, who fought at the
Siege of Damietta died at the
Battle of Al Mansurah .
Armand de Périgord , Grand Master of the Knights Templar, defeated at the
Battle of La Forbie .
Bayard , legendary soldier, sometimes known as "the knight without fear and beyond reproach".
Pierre d'Aubusson ,
Grand Master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem and revered by all
Christendom as "the Shield of the Church" . He was the leader of the 1480
Siege of Rhodes defence.
Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc ,
Marshal of France , knighted after his service during the
Battle of Ceresole .
Guigues Guiffrey , soldier, who won fame through his cavalry charge during the
Battle of Ceresole .
Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon , soldier, nicknamed the man without fear .
Jean Parisot de la Valette , 49th
Grand Master of the
Order of Malta , from 21 August 1557 to his death in 1568.
Knight Hospitaller , he joined the order in the Langue de Provence, he fought with distinction against the
Turks at
Rhodes . He commanded the resistance against the Ottomans at the
Great Siege of
Malta in 1565.
Valletta , capital of
Malta was named after him.
Samuel de Champlain , navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler, considered as the "Father of
New France ".
Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin , military leader in
New France , who illustrated himself in the raid of
Penobscot and the
Battle of Falmouth during the
King William's War .
Louis de Buade de Frontenac , soldier and Governor general of New France from an old noble family from
Béarn , who successfully defended
Quebec from the British invasions of the King William's War.
Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin ,
chevalier , in service of the
Dutch Republic .
Jean de Gassion , Gascon military, commander at the 1643
battle of Rocroi .
Jean-François Roberval , adventurer and first
Lieutenant General of New France .
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons , merchant, explorer and colonizer who founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada.
d'Artagnan , legendary captain of the
Musketeers of the Guard who inspired Alexandre Dumas' d'Artagnan character.
Armand d'Athos ,
Isaac de Porthau and
Henri d'Aramitz , members of the Musketeers of the Guard who inspired
Alexandre Dumas for his novel
The Three Musketeers .
Vicomte of Turenne , member of the Auvergnat
La Tour d'Auvergne family, who distinguished himself during the battles of
Nördlingen ,
Zusmarshausen ,
Turckheim and
Dunes .
Daniel Montbars ,
buccaneer , known as Montbars the Destroyer .
Jean-Baptiste du Casse , buccaneer,
admiral , and
colonial administrator .
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac , explorer and adventurer in
New France , In 1701, he founded
Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit , the beginnings of modern Detroit, which he commanded until 1710. William H. Murphy and
Henry M. Leland , founders of the
Cadillac auto company in Detroit, paid homage to him by using his name for their company and his armorial bearings as its logo in 1902.
Claude-Jean Allouez ,
Jesuit
missionary and French explorer of North America, mainly
Michigan and
Wisconsin .
Pierre Laclède , fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson
Auguste Chouteau , founded
St. Louis in 1764.
Marguerite Delaye , heroine of the Siege of
Montelimar , during the
French Wars of Religion .
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , commander of the forces in North America during the
Seven Years' War , whose North American
theatre is known as the
French and Indian War in the United States.
François Joseph Paul de Grasse , admiral, known for his command of the
French fleet at the
Battle of the Chesapeake , which led directly to the
British surrender at Yorktown .
Jean-François de La Pérouse , officer of the
Royal French Navy . He was chosen by the
Marquis de Castries and
Louis XVI to lead an expedition around the world to complete
James Cook discoveries in the Pacific Ocean. This maritime expedition mysteriously vanished, body and soul, at Vanikoro (
Santa Cruz Islands ) in 1788, three years after his departure from
Brest . Numerous places were named after him, including the
La Pérouse Strait between Russia and Japan.
Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche , soldier and adventurer.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars , general of
Louis XIV of France who illustrated himself during the commanding of the
Battle of Malplaquet .
Claude de Forbin , naval commander who illustrated himself during the
War of the Spanish Succession and the
Nine Years' War , as well as ephemeral governor of
Bangkok and challenger of the
Makassar revolt of 1686 .
Hippolyte Bouchard , sailor and
corsair , praised in
Argentina .
Nicolas-Louis d'Assas , captain of the
Régiment d'Auvergne and hero of the
Battle of Kloster Kampen .
Lafayette , general and key figure of the
American Revolutionary War . He was a close friend of
George Washington . He is sometimes known as the Hero of the Two Worlds .
John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier , British soldier who became
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in 1757.
Louis de Freycinet , navigator who published in 1811 the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia.
Guillaume Brune , Marshal of France who distinguished himself as
Brigadier general during the late Revolutionary period battles of
Castricum and
Pozzolo .
Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse , admiral.
Jean Lafitte ,
French-American
pirate and
privateer in the
Gulf of Mexico who took part in the
1815
Battle of New Orleans .
Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville , Vice-admiral who fought during the American Revolutionary War and under Napoleon during the
Raids on Boulogne .
Michel de Beaupuy , soldier during the
French Revolutionary Wars .
Several
Marshals of France of the
Napoleonic Era , including
Joachim Murat ,
Jean Lannes ,
Jean-Baptiste Bessières ,
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan or again
André Masséna and
Jean-de-Dieu Soult .
Joseph Lagrange , successful soldier of the Napoleonic Era.
Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne , Napoleonic cavalry commander.
Honoré Charles Reille , Napoleonic Marshal, leader of the
Battle of Roncesvalles and key figure of the
Peninsular War .
Jean-Antoine Marbot , Napoleonic General and politician.
Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie , Napoleonic general and politician.
Pierre Claude Pajol , Napoleonic cavalry general.
Adolphe Marbot , Napoleonic General, remembered for his courage as a soldier in the
Battle of Vitebsk .
Marcellin Marbot , Napoleonic General, remembered for his Mémoires and his role as a soldier during the
Battle of Eylau .
Louis Desaix , general and military leader who distinguished himself during the Napoleonic
Egyptian campaign .
Jean Étienne Championnet and
Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud , major generals of the Napoleonic Era.
Pierre François Sauret , General of Division under Napoleon who mainly fought during the
War of the Pyrenees .
Pierre Daumesnil , one-legged soldier of Napoleon.
François Certain Canrobert , Marshal of France, one of the leaders of the allied forces during the
Crimean War , notably in the
Battle of Inkerman and the
Siege of Sevastopol .
Pierre Bosquet , Marshal of France, who particularly served during the Crimean War and the
conquest of Algeria .
Thomas Robert Bugeaud , Marshal of France and
Governor-General of Algeria primary remembered for his key role during the conquest of Algeria and the
Battle of Isly .
Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul , cavalry general of the
Napoleonic wars .
Jean Danjou , decorated captain who fought during the legendary
Battle of Camarón .
Abel Douay , general, killed in combat during the
Battle of Wissembourg where the French defenders, although greatly outnumbered, fought heroically.
Joseph Gallieni , highly decorated soldier, commander and administrator. He took back
Madagascar from the rebels in 1896 and played an important role on the French side during the First World War.
Marcel Treich-Laplène , first explorer and first colonial administrator of the
Ivory Coast .
Ferdinand Foch ,
Marshal of France ,
of Poland and
of United Kingdom . Hero of the
First World War , Addington says, "to a large extent the final Allied strategy which won the war on land in Western Europe in 1918 was Foch's alone."
Maurice Sarrail , general of the
First World War , one of the commanders of the
Salonica breakthrough .
Albert Severin Roche , distinguished French soldier, nicknamed by Foch "the first soldier of France".
Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau , notable general in the First World War, famous for his victories during the
Battle of Grand Couronné , the
Battle of the Trouée de Charmes and the
Battle of Verdun .
Adolphe Guillaumat , general in the First World War, who took part as a commander in the Battle of Verdun, among other battles.
Émile Fayolle , successful First World War general, appointed
Marshal of France .
Robert Nivelle ,
commander-in-chief of the French armies on the Western Front, who was responsible of the inconclusive
Nivelle offensive and one of the main commanders of the
Battle of Verdun .
Joseph Joffre ,
general who served as
Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916, best known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive
First Battle of the Marne in September 1914.
Lionel de Marmier , World War I and II
flying ace .
Maryse Bastié , aviator and World War I pilot.
Hans-Joachim Marseille , successful German
fighter pilot from Occitan
Huguenot ancestry.
René Prioux , French general, commander of the 1940
Battle of Hannut .
Adolf Galland , successful German flying ace credited with 104 aerial victories during World War II, from Occitan Huguenot ancestry originating from
Veynes .
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial , French admiral, one of the commander of the
Dunkirk evacuation .
Louis Delfino , fighter ace, member of the
Escadron de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen .
Roland de La Poype , fighter ace, member of the
Escadron de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen ,
Hero of the Soviet Union .
Georges Bégué , engineer and agent in the
Special Operations Executive during World War II.
François Coli , pilot and navigator, best known for his attempt to achieve the first
transatlantic flight , along with
Charles Nungesser .
Fashion
Paul Iribe , illustrator and designer.
Ted Lapidus , fashion designer.
André Courrèges , fashion designer, primary remembered for its futuristic creations and his works at
Balenciaga .
Marcelle Auclair , co-founder of the fashion magazine
Marie Claire .
Christian Lacroix , fashion designer. His creations are often inspired by his native
Camargue .
Marithé + François Girbaud , fashion designers, known for their
denim jeans .
Emanuel Ungaro , fashion designer and founder of the House of Ungaro.
Inès de la Fressange , model and aristocrat. She was named to the
International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1998.
Christian Audigier , fashion designer.
Simon Porte Jacquemus , fashion designer.
Marine Serre , 2017
LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers.
Olivier Rousteing , fashion designer and creative director of
Balmain .
Alexandre Vauthier , fashion designer.
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac , fashion designer and street artist, descendant of an old noble family from
Castelbajac ,
Bigorre .
Cindy Bruna , model.
Aymeline Valade , model.
Sophie Theallet , fashion designer.
Anais Mali ,
Victoria's Secret model .
Isabelle Caro , model and actress.
Cooking
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