List of Famous people born in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Bryan Mbeumo is a French professional footballer who plays for English club Brentford as a winger. He is a product of the Troyes AC academy and has been capped by France at youth level.

Charles Roger René Jacques de Gaulle is a French politician. He is the eldest child of Admiral Philippe de Gaulle and grandson of General Charles de Gaulle, and served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP), from 1994 to 2004.

Quentin Fillon Maillet is a French biathlete. He competed in the 2014/15 world cup season, and represented France at the Biathlon World Championships 2015 in Kontiolahti.

Salomé Stévenin is a French actress. She began her acting career at the age of 3 when she appeared alongside her father in the film Peaux des Vaches in 1989. Her recent appearances include the 2002 television film Clara cet été là and Douches froides in 2005 for which she won the La Ciotat Film Festival Best Actress award.

Émile "Mimile" Buisson was a French gangster, and French public enemy No. 1 for 1950. A member of the French Gang des Tractions Avant, Buisson was responsible for over thirty murders and a hundred robberies. Buisson was pursued and caught by French detective of the Sûreté Nationale Roger Borniche, and was executed in 1956 by the guillotine. Borniche's memoirs on the pursuit, Flic Story, were later made into a film of the same name in 1975, with Buisson portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Henri Claude Fertet was a French schoolboy and resistance fighter who was executed by the German occupying forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded several national honours. He is known for the letter he wrote to his parents on the morning of his execution, and he has become one of those who symbolise the French Resistance.

Patrick Bouchitey is a French actor and film director. He has appeared in over 80 films and television shows since 1972. His film Cold Moon was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

Jean Thurel, or Jean Theurel, was a fusilier of the French Army with an extraordinarily long career that spanned over 75 years of service in the Touraine Regiment. Born in the reign of Louis XIV and dying during that of Napoleon I, Thurel lived in three different centuries.

Bernard Thévenet is a retired French bicycle racer. His sporting career began with ACBB Paris. He is a two-time winner of the Tour de France and known for ending the reign of five-time Tour champion Eddy Merckx, though both feats are tarnished by Thévenet's later admission of steroids use during his career. He also won the Dauphiné Libéré in 1975 and 1976.

Boris Boillon was the French ambassador to Tunisia until 24 August 2012. Previously, he was ambassador to Iraq.