List of Famous people born in Centre-Val de Loire, France
Ambroise-Marie Carré
Ambroise-Marie Carré OP was a Catholic priest, author and member of the Académie française. Born in Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, France, Carré studied at l'école Saint-Joseph and the collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly before entering the Dominican order in 1926 and being ordained a priest in 1933. Not long thereafter, he was to edit, from 1936 until 1939, the Revue des Jeunes. Under the German Occupation, following the capitulation of the French government to the Nazis during the Second World War, Carré aided those persecuted by the Vichy government, regardless of their religion or ethnicity; for this, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de guerre.
Robert Lemaignen
Robert Lemaignen was a right-wing French European Commissioner.
André Chaumeau
Charles Sadron
Charles Sadron, was a French physicist who specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.
Jean Métezeau
Jean Métezeau was a 16th-century French architect. He came from a family of master masons and general contractors from Dreux. He was the son of Clément Métezeau and brother of Thibault Métezeau, also architects.
Brice Feillu
Brice Feillu is a French former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the Agritubel, Vacansoleil, Leopard Trek, Sojasun and Arkéa–Samsic teams.
Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Louis Charles Auguste Le Tonnelier, Baron de Breteuil, Baron de Preuilly was a French aristocrat, diplomat and statesman. He was the last Prime Minister of the Bourbon Monarchy, appointed by King Louis XVI only one hundred hours before the storming of the Bastille.
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury was a French Radical politician who served as the Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.
Georges Goyau
Georges Goyau was a French historian and essayist specializing in religious history.