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

Georges Meunier was a French professional road bicycle racer. He won two stages in the Tour de France. In 1960, he became French national cyclo-cross champion.

Francis de Miomandre was a French novelist and well-known translator from Spanish into French.

Marie Maxime Cornu was a French botanist and mycologist. He was a younger brother of physicist Alfred Cornu (1841-1902).

Franck Pineau is a former French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1989 Vuelta a España, 1989 Tour de France and 1993 Tour de France.

Hippolyte Lecomte was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet; the caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio. His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter.

John David Digues La Touche was an Irish ornithologist, naturalist, and zoologist. La Touche's career was as a customs official in China.