List of Famous people born in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Solène Durand
Solène Marie Reine Durand is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Division 1 Féminine club Guingamp and the France national team.
Donatien Laurent
Donatien Laurent was a French musicologist and linguist.
Raymond of Burgundy
Raymond of Burgundy was the ruler of Galicia from about 1090 until his death. He was the fourth son of Count William I of Burgundy and Stephanie. He married Urraca, future queen of León, and was the father of the future Alfonso VII.
Sophie Daull
Sophie Daull is a French actress and writer. She was born in Belfort and trained at the National Conservatory in Strasbourg. She published her first book Camille, mon Evolée in 2015. This won the best first novel prize from Lire magazine. Her third novel Au Grand Lavoir (2018) won the EU Literature Prize in 2019.
Jean-Michel Lorain
Jean-Michel Lorain is a French chef. He is the owner of the restaurant La Côte Saint Jacques located in Joigny, department of Yonne in the region of Bourgogne. With his father Michel Lorain, he was rated 19.5/20 in the Gault et Millau and had three stars at the Guide Michelin from 1986 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015. He has two Michelin stars since 2015.
Annie Genevard
Annie Genevard is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the fifth constituency of Doubs since 2012. A teacher by occupation, she was Mayor of Morteau from 2002 until 2017. Genevard also served as Secretary-General of The Republicans from 2017 to 2019 under the leadership of Laurent Wauquiez and Jean Leonetti.
Auguste de Marmont
Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title Duke of Ragusa. In the Peninsular War Marmont succeeded the disgraced André Masséna in the command of the French army in northern Spain, but lost decisively at the Battle of Salamanca.
Alice Domon
Alicia Domon, Caty, was a Roman Catholic religious sister from France who was one of two French nationals in Argentina to be "disappeared" in December 1977 by the military dictatorship of the National Reorganization Process. She was among a dozen people associated with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group, who were kidnapped and taken to the secret detention center at ESMA.
Jeannette Guyot
Jeannette Guyot was a French Resistance operative who went on to become one of the Second World War's most decorated women. She is one of only two women to hold the American Distinguished Service Cross obtained during the war. She participated in Pathfinder Mission of Operation Sussex.
Arthur Retière
Arthur Retière is a French rugby union winger or full-back and he currently plays for La Rochelle in the French Top 14.