List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Stéphane Augé
Stéphane Augé is a French former road racing cyclist. Following his career, he worked as a sporting director for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis from 2011 until 2016. While he initially had a contract to ride competitively with them in the 2011 season, he chose instead to retire as a cyclist and fill an opening in the team's management. He was known to be part of the breakaway in every first stage of the Tour de France.
Serge Nuques
Jean-Louis Pons
Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer. Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
Jean Roger-Ducasse
Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse was a French composer.
Dimitri Champion
Dimitri Champion is a French former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2012 for the Bouygues Télécom, Ag2r–La Mondiale and Bretagne–Schuller squads. He was best known for winning the French National Road Race Championships in 2009.
Serge Lhorca
Francis Castaing
Francis Castaing is a French former professional road bicycle racer. He won one stage in the 1985 Tour de France. He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Selma Kouchy
Maryse Alberti
Maryse Alberti is a French cinematographer who mainly works in the United States on independent fiction films and vérité, observational documentaries. Alberti has won awards from the Sundance Film Festival and the Spirit Awards. She was the first contemporary female cinematographer featured on the cover of American Cinematographer for her work on Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine.
Lloyd Mondory
Lloyd Mondory is a French restaurateur and former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2015 for the AG2R La Mondiale team before he was suspended for four years for the use of erythropoietin (EPO). The biggest results of his career included victory in the 2008 Grand Prix of Aargau Canton, stage wins in the Étoile de Bessèges, the Vuelta a Burgos and the Paris–Corrèze and second place in a stage of the 2008 Vuelta a España.