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

Franciscus Junius the Elder was a Reformed scholar, Protestant reformer and theologian. Born in Bourges in central France, he initially studied law, but later decided to study theology in Geneva under John Calvin and Theodore Beza. He became a minister in Antwerp, but was forced to flee to Heidelberg in 1567. He wrote a translation of the Bible into Latin with Emmanuel Tremellius, and his Treatise on True Theology was an often used text in Reformed scholasticism.

Maurice Estève,, was a French painter.

Marie-Thérèse Levasseur was the domestic partner of Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Yves Bonnet is a senior French civil servant and politician. He was prefect and director of the DST from 1982 to 1985. A member of the UDF, he served as deputy for the unified party from 1993 to 1997, before joining the National Rally during the regional elections of 2021.

Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire, French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. A keen observer, he is credited with important discoveries in botany, notably the direction of the radicle in the embryo sac and the double point of attachment of certain ovules. He also described two families, the Paronychiae and the Tamariscinae, as well as many genera and species.

Renaud Dion is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2013 for the R.A.G.T. Semences, Ag2r–La Mondiale, Roubaix–Lille Métropole and Bretagne–Séché Environnement teams. His sporting career began with UC Gien Sport.

Cyril Lemoine is a French professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam B&B Hotels p/b KTM.

Gabriel Lamé was a French mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity.