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

François-Xavier-Joseph Droz was a reactionary French writer on ethics, political science and political economy.

Edme Mariotte was a French physicist and priest (Abbé).

Lucien Jean Baptiste Bersot, born on June 7, 1881, and executed the February 13, 1915 was a French soldier killed for refusing to wear trousers that had belonged to a dead person. His story was taken up by Alain Scoff and adapted for television by Yves Boisset.

Madeleine Sophie Barat, R.S.C.J. is a French saint of the Catholic Church and was the founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, a worldwide religious institute of educators.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal.

Jean Walter,, was a French architect who mainly worked for public housing, hospital architecture, and condominiums.

Balthasar Gérard was the assassin of the Dutch independence leader, William I of Orange. He killed William I in Delft on 10 July 1584, by shooting him twice with a pair of pistols, and was afterwards tried, convicted, and gruesomely executed.