List of Famous people born in Hauts-de-France, France
Claude Prouvoyeur
Claude Prouvoyeur was a French politician.
Peggy Sastre
Peggy Sastre is a French journalist. She is also a Doctor of Philosophy and a specialist on Nietzsche and Darwin.
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, 1st Count Sérurier led a division in the War of the First Coalition and became a Marshal of the Empire under Emperor Napoleon. He was born into the minor nobility and in 1755 joined the Laon militia which was soon sent to fight in the Seven Years' War. After transferring into the regular army as an ensign, he was wounded at Warburg in 1760. He fought in the Spanish-Portuguese War in 1762. He married in 1779 after a promotion to captain. A newly minted major in 1789, the French Revolution sped up promotion so that he was colonel of the regiment in 1792. After leading Army of Italy troops in a number of actions, he became a general of brigade in 1793 and a general of division the following year.
Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Jean-Michel Wilmotte is a French architect.
Daniel Boulanger
Daniel Boulanger was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and was a member of the Académie Goncourt from 1983 until his death. He was born in Compiègne, Oise.
Maxime Beaumont
Maxime Beaumont is a French sprint canoeist. He competed in the individual 200 m event at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and finished fourth and second, respectively. He won four medals in individual and two-man events at the world championships in 2013–2015.
Philippe Leroy
Philippe Leroy was a member of the Senate of France from 2001 until 2017, representing the Moselle department. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Mikel Dufrenne
Mikel Dufrenne was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism and is particularly noted for the work The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience.
Isabelle Delannoy
Henri Pille
Charles Henri Pille was a French painter and illustrator.