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

Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Prior to his death, he was the oldest living bishop from France, at the age of 97.

Éric Savin is a French film and TV actor.

Alexis Miellet is a French middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He won a silver medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade.

Jean Champion was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1962 and 1996.

Cédric Pineau is a French former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2017 with the Ag2r–La Mondiale, Roubaix–Lille Métropole and FDJ teams.

Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general. Ducrot served in the Crimean War, Algeria, the Italian campaign of 1859, and as a division commander in the Franco-Prussian War.

Othon de la Roche, also Otho de la Roche, was a Burgundian nobleman of the De la Roche family from La Roche-sur-l'Ognon. He joined the Fourth Crusade and became the first Frankish Lord of Athens in 1204. In addition to Athens, he acquired Thebes by around 1211.

Louis I was Count of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel.

Bill G.B. Pallot is an art historian, art expert, collector and lecturer at the Sorbonne University . He was honored with the French distinction of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Chevalier (1997) and he is now Officier in the same distinction (2011). In 2016, he was indicted for making and selling false eighteenth century furniture, some of which were sold to the Palace of Versailles.