List of Famous people born in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Daniel Beretta
Daniel Beretta is a French actor and voice actor. He has dubbed over Arnold Schwarzenegger in the French versions of all his films since 1987.
Thibaut Fauconnet
Thibaut Fauconnet is a French short track speed skater. He represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Guy Canivet
Guy Canivet is a French judge.
Nicéphore Niépce
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, commonly known or referred to simply as Nicéphore Niépce, was a French inventor, usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825. In 1826 or 1827, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Among Niépce's other inventions was the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brother Claude Niépce.
Duchess Sabine of Württemberg
Sabine of Württemberg was a princess of Württemberg by birth and by marriage, the first Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel.
Philip II, Count of Nevers
Phillip II, Count of Nevers was the youngest son of Philip the Bold and Margaret III of Flanders.
Albert Cartier
Albert Cartier,, is a former professional footballer and most recently manager for Gazélec Ajaccio.
Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien
Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, known also by the diminutive form "Marysieńka" was queen consort to King John III Sobieski, from 1674 to 1696.
Johann Georg Sontheim
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza was a French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva. Beza succeeded Calvin as a spiritual leader of the Republic of Geneva, which was originally founded by John Calvin himself.