List of Famous people born in Brittany, France
Sylvain Ripoll
Sylvain Ripoll is a French former football player and current manager who manages the French under-21 football team.
Valérie Nicolas
Valérie Nicolas is a French handball goalkeeper and former player of the French national team. She became World Champion in 2003 with the French team, and was also voted Most Valuable Player and Best Goalkeeper. She was voted into the All-Star Team in the 2007 World Championship. Among her other triumphs are a silver medal from the World Championships, two bronze medals from the European Championships, victories at the Champions League, the EHF Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup, and both French and Danish national championships.
Alain Passard
Alain Passard is a French chef and owner of the three-star restaurant L'Arpège in Paris.
Mickaël Le Bihan
Mickaël Le Bihan is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 2 team AJ Auxerre.
Christophe Miossec
Christophe Miossec is a French singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.
Michel Desjoyeaux
Michel Desjoyeaux is a French sailor, known for competing successfully in several long-distance single-handed races. He won the Vendée Globe race in 2000-01 and 2008–09, making him the only person to win that race more than once. In 2014-15, he was watch captain, on leg 1 on Mapfre in the Volvo Ocean Race.
Jérémie Beyou
Jérémie Beyou is a French professional Offshore sailor born on 27th June 1976 in Landivisiau (Finistère). He is a member of C N Lorient Sailing Club.
Vincent Riou
Vincent Riou is a French sailor. He is the skipper of PRB, a 60-foot monohull. He won the 2004 edition of the Vendée Globe.
Pierre Le Corre
Pierre Le Corre is a French triathlete. He competed in the men's event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Benoît Vaugrenard
Benoît Vaugrenard is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally for FDJeux.com and its successors between 2003 and 2019. He competed in 11 Grand Tours: six times in the Tour de France, three times in the Giro d'Italia(2004, 2016, and 2017) and twice in the Vuelta a España.