List of Famous people born in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Samuel Dumoulin
Samuel Dumoulin is a retired French professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Jean Delatour, Cofidis and AG2R La Mondiale teams.
Jean Dell
Jean Dell is a French actor and writer.
Charles Fiterman
Charles Fiterman is a French politician. He served as Minister of Transport from 1981 to 1984, under former President François Mitterrand. He was originally a high-ranking member of the French Communist Party, but joined the Socialist Party in 1998.
Redouane Asloum
Rédouane Asloum is a French boxer. He competed in the men's light flyweight event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Nicolas Puydebois
Nicolas Puydebois is a former French goalkeeper.
Catherine Chabaud
Catherine Chabaud is a French journalist and politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Kenza Dali
Kenza Dali is a French football player who currently plays for English club West Ham United in the FA WSL.
Blandine Dancette
Blandine Dancette is a French handball player for Nantes Handball and the French national team.
Pierre Pinoncelli
Pierre Pinoncelli is a performance artist most noted for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in Nîmes on 25 August 1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer. He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time; robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun; and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.
Franck Jurietti
Franck Jurietti is a French former professional football defender, who spent most of his career in Bordeaux.