List of Famous people born in Hauts-de-France, France
Antoine Arnault
Antoine Arnault is a French businessman; the CEO of Berluti, and chairman of Loro Piana.
Gaël Kakuta
Gaël Romeo Kakuta Mambenga is a professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Ligue 1 club RC Lens, on loan from Amiens SC, and the DR Congo national football team.
Nando de Colo
Nando Bruno Alfred Andre de Colo is a French professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketball Super League and the EuroLeague. Standing at a height of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), he plays at the point guard and shooting guard positions. A four-time All-EuroLeague selection, de Colo won the EuroLeague title in 2016 and 2019 with CSKA Moscow, earning both the EuroLeague MVP and Final Four MVP awards in the process.
Isabelle Aubret
Isabelle Aubret (born 27 July 1938) is a French singer.
Robert-François Damiens
Robert-François Damiens was a French domestic servant whose attempted assassination of King Louis XV in 1757 culminated in his public execution. He was the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional form of death penalty reserved for regicides.
Brigitte Fossey
Brigitte Florence Fossey is a French actress.
Isabelle Dinoire
Isabelle Dinoire was a French woman who was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her Labrador retriever cross breed mauled her in May 2005. She underwent a 15-hour operation in November 2005 in which surgeons transplanted the nose, lips and chin from a brain-dead donor at a hospital in Amiens. She died at age 49 in April 2016, though her death was not announced until more than four months later.
Michou
Michel Georges Alfred Catty, known as Michou, was a French singer, drag artist and owner of Chez Michou in Montmartre. He was born in Amiens. A local celebrity, he appeared in a cameo as himself in the 1973 film La bonne année directed by Claude Lelouch. In 1973 he also played the part of Beauchamp in the TV series Molière pour rire et pour pleurer, directed by Marcel Camus.
Anne Brochet
Anne Brochet is a French actress.
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.