List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Leon Adolphe Amette was a French Catholic cardinal, and was archbishop of Paris 1908–1920.

Jean de Limur was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include La Garçonne (1936) and The Letter (1929). A French army officer and a designer, he first came to the United States with his parents, Count and Countess de Limur in September 1920; their destination was Burlingame, California, where Jean's elder brother lived.

François Magendie was a French physiologist, considered a pioneer of experimental physiology. He is known for describing the foramen of Magendie. There is also a Magendie sign, a downward and inward rotation of the eye due to a lesion in the cerebellum. Magendie was a faculty at the College of France, holding the Chair of Medicine from 1830 to 1855.

Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie is considered to be the founder of the first modern police force.

Francis Planté was a French pianist famed as one of the first ever recording artists.

Guillaume de Pierre Godin was a French Dominican theologian, and Cardinal.

Antoine de Montazet was a French theologian, of Jansenist tendencies, who became bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon. He was elected to the Académie française in 1756, but did not produce significant literary works.