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

Georg Friedrich Parrot was a German scientist, the first rector of the Imperial University of Dorpat in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.

Isabelle Alonso is a French writer of Spanish extraction. Her parents were exiled Spanish Republicans, and Alonso became a naturalized French citizen at the age of eight. She has published a series of books exploring her family history, among them L'Exil est mon pays (2006), Fille de rouge (2009) and Maman (2010).

Alain Houpert is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Côte-d'Or department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.

Hippolyte Langlois was a French general noted for his writings on military science.

Hippolyte Fontaine was a French electrical engineer who worked with Zénobe Gramme on the development of the Gramme machine, and whose contributions were essential to the creation of the dynamo. He was the first to transmit electricity via electrical wires.