List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Valentin Lavillenie
Valentin Lavillenie is a French athlete specialising in the pole vault. He won the gold medal at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie. Lavillenie is the younger brother of another pole vaulter, a former world record holder Renaud Lavillenie.
Jean-Marc Janaillac
Jean-Marc Janaillac is a French businessman best known for being a former CEO of Air France–KLM.
Sindy Auvity
Sindy Auvity, commonly known mononymously as Sindy, born in 1995 in Royan, is the lead vocalist of the French Hip-Hop group Team BS. After the success of the group's album, Sindy announced that she would be releasing her own solo album. Selfie was released in July 2015 and reached 25 in the French charts.
Marine Fauthoux
Marine Fauthoux is a French basketball player for Tarbes GB and the French national team.
Joël Bats
Joël Bats is a French retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played his entire senior club career in his native France. From 1976 to 1992, he appeared in a total of 553 competitive club matches and 504 domestic league matches for three French clubs. He played 50 matches for the senior France team.
Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In the film business for over 40 years, Catherine Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in cinema. Taking advantage of the medium of cinema, Breillat juxtaposes different perspectives to highlight irony found in society.
Ugo Mola
Ugo Mola is a French rugby union player and coach.
Lili Damita
Lili Damita was a French-American actress and singer who appeared in 33 films between 1922 and 1937.
Louis Leplée
Louis Leplée was a French nightclub owner who discovered the French singer Édith Piaf singing on a Paris street corner in 1935. Leplée starred Piaf at the popular Parisian nightspot Le Gerny's as "La Môme Piaf".
Jean-Loup Chrétien
Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien is a French retired Général de Brigade in the Armée de l'Air, and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and the first western European in space.