List of people from Nantes
This is a list of people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Nantes, France.
A
- Anne of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany and Queen consort of France (only woman to have married two kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII)
B
- Charles-Amable Battaille (1822–1872), French operatic bass
- Henri-Franck Beaupérin (born 1968), classical organist
- François Bégaudeau, writer, journalist and actor
- René Berthelot (? – 1664), French actor and prominent member of Molière's theatre troupe
- Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer and professor (Prix de Rome laureate)
- Claire Bretécher, cartoonist
- Aristide Briand, French statesman (1926 Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
C
- Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob), photographer and author
- Pierre Cambronne, general (commander of the Old Guard at Waterloo)
- Jacques Cassard, corsair
- Jeanne Cherhal, singer and songwriter
- C2C, music producer
D
- Jacques Demy, movie director
- Jehan Desanges, (born 1929), historian
F
- Manu Feildel, French chef/culinary contest judge, now lives in Australia, judge of My Kitchen Rules.
- Thierry Fortineau (1953–2006), actor
- Ernest Fouinet (1799–1845), 19th-century novelist and poet.
G
- Jean Graton, cartoonist
H
- Linda Hardy, actress and model (Miss France 1992)
L
- Paul Ladmirault, composer
- Jean Leray, mathematician
- Héloïse Letissier, (aka Christine and the Queen) singer
- Paul de la Gironière, traveller
- Denys de La Patellière, film director and scriptwriter
- Julien de Lallande Poydras, New Orleans member of the United States House of Representatives
- Charles-Auguste Lebourg, sculptor
- Hugo Leclercq aka Madeon, music producer and electronic music artist
- Lila Saidi, model
M
- Joseph Malègue, novelist
- Suzanne Malherbe (aka Marcel Moore), illustrator and designer
- Amédée Ménard, sculptor
- Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon (1702–1780), man of letters
- Anna Mouglalis, actress
P
- Yvonne Pouzin, phthisiatrist
R
- Jules Edouard Roiné, sculptor and medallist
- Benoit Regent, actor
S
- Constance de Salm (1767–1845), poet and miscellaneous writer; through her second marriage, she became Princess of Salm-Dyck
- Alice Sauvrezis (1866–1946), composer, pianist, and choral conductor
T
- Éric Tabarly, sailor
- Sylvie Tellier, model (Miss France 2002)
- Roger Tessier (born 1939), composer
- Jérémy Toulalan, football player
- Auguste Toulmouche, painter
V
- Jules Verne, science fiction writer, traveller, lived in Nantes from birth to 1847 then went to Paris and shortly after returned to Nantes, where he stayed until July 1848
- Sandrine Voillet, art historian and television presenter
- Louis Vuillemin (1879–1929), composer
W
- Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, politician
References
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