List of Famous people born in Centre-Val de Loire, France

Michel-Joseph Maunoury was a commander of French forces in the early days of World War I who was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France.

Baptiste Santamaria is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg.

Pascal Thomas is a French screenwriter and film director. His 1999 film The Dilettante was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.

Philippe Quintais is a French Elite category pétanque player, 13 times world champion. He is right-handed.

Joan of France, was briefly Queen of France as wife of King Louis XII, in between the death of her brother, King Charles VIII, and the annulment of her marriage. After that, she retired to her domain, where she soon founded the monastic Order of the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary, where she served as abbess. From this Order later sprang the religious congregation of the Apostolic Sisters of the Annunciation, founded in 1787 to teach the children of the poor. She was canonized on 28 May 1950 and is known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Joan of Valois, O.Ann.M..

Xavier Gravelaine is a French football manager and former football player, who played for many clubs in France and Europe and for France national team.

Roger Taillibert was a French architect, active as a designer from about 1963 to 1987.

Vladimir Jankélévitch was a French philosopher and musicologist.

Patrick Tissier (born August 24, 1952 in Bourges) is a French serial killer and rapist.

Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon, was a French nobleman and Admiral of France, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend of—and advisor to—the French king, Charles IX.