List of Famous people born in Normandy, France
Claude Perdriel
Claude Perdriel is owner-manager of the Perdriel Group that publishes Sciences et Avenir, Challenges, Rue89 and during 1970–1980, the Paris daily Le Matin de Paris. It also published Le Nouvel Observateur from its foundation in 1964 to 2014 when it was sold to a group of investors that already published Le Monde.
Guillaume Faury
Guillaume Faury is a French engineer and executive currently working as président (chairman) for aircraft manufacturer Airbus SAS and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its parent organization, Airbus SE.
Laure Lepailleur
Laure Maud Yvette Lepailleur is a French football player who currently plays for French club Paris Saint-Germain of the Division 1 Féminine. Lepailleur primarily plays as a midfielder, but can also play in the defending position. She is a member of the France women's national football team making her first major tournament appearance with her nation at UEFA Women's Euro 2009.
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine is a French sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
Grégory Gadebois
Grégory Gadebois is a French actor.
Kévin Azaïs
Kévin Azaïs is a French actor. He is best known for his performance in the film Love at First Fight, for which he won a César Award for Most Promising Actor and a Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor.
Pascal Mahé
Pascal Mahé is a French handball player. He competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Théo Maledon
Théo Louis Maledon is a French professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the point guard position.
Alain Corbin
Alain Corbin is a French historian. He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory.
Didier Digard
Didier Frédéric Thierry Digard is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.