List of Famous people born in Normandy, France
Justine Triet
Justine Triet is a French film director, screenwriter and editor. She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Her debut feature, Age of Panic, was presented as part of the ACID programme at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Elliot Grandin
Elliot Grandin is a French professional footballer who last played for League Two club Grimsby Town, as a winger.
Florence Cestac
Florence Cestac is a French cartoonist and former publisher. She is the first woman to have won the prestigious Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, in 2000, and was the only one until Rumiko Takahashi in 2019.
Benoît Duteurtre
Benoît Duteurtre is a French novelist and essayist. He is also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spends his time between Paris, New York and Normandy.
Patrick Pouyanné
Patrick Jean Pouyanné is a French engineer who has been serving as chairman and CEO of Total since 2014.
Pascal Plancque
Pascal Plancque is a French professional football manager and former player, who was most recently in charge of Ligue 2 side Chamois Niortais.
Catherine Pégard
Catherine Pégard is a French political journalist. She has spent most of her career at Le Point where she was editor. In 2007, she was appointed adviser to President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and in charge of the "political center" at the Élysée Palace from March 2008. Since 2011 she has headed Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles that administer the Palace of Versailles. Pégard was awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2012.
Thierry Marie
Thierry Marie is a French former cyclist. Marie often performed well in prologue stages: he won the Tour de France prologue three times in his career, and because of that he wore the yellow jersey in those three years, for seven days in total. He also competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. On stage six of the 1991 Tour de France Marie rode alone for six hours and 234km to win the stage and set the record for the longest post-war successful breakaway.
Camille Lecointre
Camille Lecointre is a French sailor. She competed in the 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Aude Amadou
Aude Amadou is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Loire-Atlantique.