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

Heiric of Auxerre (841–876) was a French Benedictine theologian and writer.

Lucien Eugène Prévost was a French cyclist who won the first edition of Paris–Tours in 1896. He also rode in the 1904 Tour de France, but dropped out on the first stage.

Claude Auguste Lamy was a French chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862.

Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet was a French zoologist.

Charles Brifaut was a French poet, journalist, publicist and playwright.

Pierre Le Muet was a French architect, military engineer, and writer, famous for his book Manière de bâtir pour toutes sortes de personnes, and for the châteaux he constructed, most notably Tanlay in Burgundy, as well as some modest houses in Paris, the grandest of which, the Hôtel d'Avaux (1644–1650) survives and has recently been restored to a semblance of its seventeenth-century condition.

Guillaume Desautels (1529-1599) was a French poet of the sixteenth century associated with La Pléiade.

Guy de Bourgogne, O.Cist., was a French monk, Abbot, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pierre Vernier was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. He was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices.

Alphonse Legros was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later took citizenship. He was important as a teacher in the British etching revival.