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

Léon Aimé Taverde, F.M.C, was a French Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Taverde was born in Avanne, France and ordained a priest on 25 September 1955. He was appointed bishop to the Diocese of Langres on 14 October 1981 and ordained bishop on 29 November 1981. He retired on 16 December 1999 as bishop of the Langres Diocese.

Nicolas Dumont is a French road cyclist.

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte, 1802, was foundational for modern Egyptology.

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons (1796). He painted a portrait of each of Napoleon's two wives.

Olivier Schoenfelder is a French ice dancer. With partner Isabelle Delobel, he is the 2008 World champion, the 2007 European and the 2008 Grand Prix Final champion.

Lucien Moraweck was a French jazz pianist.

Louis Jean Desprez was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.