List of Famous people born in Hauts-de-France, France
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. His many other contributions to nutrition and health included establishing the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign and pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets. Parmentier also founded a school of breadmaking, and studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration.
Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by many, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest and most talented French comedians in the last 50 years. He is also a film director and occasional singer.
Laurent Delahousse
Laurent Delahousse is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is best known for hosting the Journal de 20 heures news bulletin and Un jour, un destin biographical show, both on France 2 at respectively 8:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 11:35 p.m. on Thursdays. He also hosts 19h le dimanche between 7 and 9 p.m. on Sundays.
Arthur Masuaku
Fuka-Arthur Masuaku Kawela, known as Arthur Masuaku, is a Congelese professional footballer who plays as a wing-back or left back for Premier League club West Ham United and the DR Congo national team. He began his senior career with Valenciennes, and has also played for Olympiacos. He represented France at the youth level.
Rudy Gobert
Rudy Gobert-Bourgarel is a French professional basketball player of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the French national basketball team in their international competitions. Standing at 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) tall with a wingspan of 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) long, he plays the center position. Considered one of the best rim protectors in NBA History, he was the NBA blocks leader in the 2016–17 season. In 2018 and 2019, he won back-to-back NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards, making him one of only ten players in NBA history who have won that honor at least twice.
Anaïs Demoustier
Anaïs Demoustier is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000.
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal public instruction, constitutional government, and equal rights for women and people of all races, have been said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and Enlightenment rationalism. He died in prison after a period of flight from French Revolutionary authorities.
Claire Keim
Claire Keim is a French actress and singer.
Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He was named the Ballon d'Or and IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer of the Year in 1991. Papin is the manager of Championnat National 2 club C'Chartres Football.
Fabien Roussel
Fabien Roussel is a French politician who is the current National Secretary of the French Communist Party. He was elected député of the Nord's 20th constituency on 21 June 2017.