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

Laurent Mauvignier is a French writer.

Yoann Kowal is a French middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase.

Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier, a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature. The book is based partly on his childhood.

Loïc Duval is a French professional racing driver racing for Audi Sport as a factory driver in DTM and driving for Dragon Racing in Formula E. He won the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans with Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen driving the Audi R18 for Audi Sport.

Henri de Turenne is a French journalist and screenwriter. He was born in Tours. The son of Armand de Turenne, a World War I flying ace, he was raised in Germany and French Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work. After the Second World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir, and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres. Since the mid-1960s, he worked primarily in television, notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé, making over a hundred documentaries. He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War. His fictional works include Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), made for Arte, for which he shared a 7 d'Or with Michel Deutsch.

Jean Rotrou was a French poet and tragedian.

Charlotte Bilbault is a French football player who currently plays French club Bordeaux of the Division 1 Féminine. She is a former graduate of the women's section of the Clairefontaine academy and plays as a defensive midfielder. Bilbault joined her current club ahead of the 2010–11 season after one season with first division club Nord Allier Yzeure. She is a former women's youth international for France having represented her nation at under-17, under-19, and under-20 level. Bilbault featured with the under-20 teams that played at the 2008 and 2010 editions of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Jean Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance.

Jean Miot was a French journalist and media executive. He was the associate director of Le Figaro, France's conservative newspaper of record, from 1980 to 1993, and the chairman of its advisory committee from 1993 to 1996. He was the CEO of Agence France-Presse from 1996 to 1999.

Gilles Clément, is a French gardener, garden designer, botanist, entomologist and writer. He is the author of several concepts in the framework of landscaping of the end of the twentieth century or the beginning of the twenty-first century, including in particular, 'moving garden', 'planetary garden' and 'third landscape'.