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

John of Burgundy, also known as Jean de Bourgogne, was the illegitimate son of John the Fearless, through his mistress Agnes de Croy, daughter of Jean I de Croÿ and was appointed Archbishop of Trier, served as Bishop of Cambrai from 1439–1479, Provost of St. Donatian's Cathedral and St. Peter's Cathedral at Lille. He was the great-grandson of King John II of France.

Mathurin Moreau was a French sculptor in the academic style.

Christine Petit is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.

Paul Colin was a French novelist who received the Prix Goncourt in 1950 for Les jeux sauvages. Colin died in March 2018 at the age of 98.

Edme Jeaurat (1688–1738) was a French engraver from Vermenton, near Auxerre.

Louis-Marie-Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, marquis later duc du Châtelet, was an aristocratic French Army general and diplomat of the Ancien Régime.