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

Xavier Marmier was a French author born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature. After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the Recherche; and after a couple of years at Rennes as professor of foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845) Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848–1849) North America and South America, and numerous volumes from his pen were the result.

Henri-François Delaborde was a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Marie-Thérèse-Richard de Ruffey, Marquise de Monnier, usually called Sophie, was the mistress of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. She was famously involved in a scandal during which she ran away with Mirabeau to Switzerland.

Georges Lecomte was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies.

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was a French poet and tragedian.