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

Pierre de Bérulle, was a French Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France. He was the founder of the French school of spirituality, who could count among his friends and disciples Vincent de Paul and Francis de Sales.

Pierre-Adrien Pâris was a French architect, painter and designer.

Gabriel Count Cortois de Pressigny was a French prelate, Bishop of Saint-Malo and then Archbishop of Besançon.

Germain de Brie, sometimes Latinized as Germanus Brixius, was a French Renaissance humanist scholar and poet. He was closely associated with Erasmus and had a well-known literary feud with Thomas More.

Pierre-Joseph Desault was a French anatomist and surgeon.

Émiland Marie Gauthey was a French mathematician, civil engineer and architect. As an engineer for the États de Bourgogne, he was the creator of a great deal of the region's civil infrastructure, such as the Canal du Centre between Digoin and Chalon-sur-Saône (1784–1793), bridges including those at Navilly (1782–1790) and Gueugnon (1784–1787), and buildings such as the Eglise Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul at Givry (Saône-et-Loire) and the theatre at Chalon-sur-Saône.