List of Famous people born in Avignon, France

Benoît Paire is a French professional tennis player.

Christian Audigier born Christian Audigier, 21 May 1958 – 9 July 2015) was a French fashion designer known for the Ed Hardy and Von Dutch clothing lines.

Mathias Bourgue is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He received a wild card to advance to the singles main draw in the 2016 French Open, where he reached the second round, losing to world No. 2 Andy Murray in five sets.

Younès Belhanda is a professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray and for the Morocco national football team.

Thierry Ehrmann is the founder and current chairman of the Serveur Group,. He was born in Avignon. He works from his house which has been transformed into the artwork Abode of Chaos. He's on the far left of the political French spectrum. He is a freemason, and had founded his own lodge.

Alexandre de Rhodes was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary, published in Rome, in 1651.

Pierre Bertrand de Colombier (1299–1361), French cardinal and diplomat, was born at Colombier in Ardèche.

Pierre Grivolas was a French painter; known for landscapes, portraits and genre scenes.