List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Joris Daudet
Joris Daudet is a French racing cyclist, and World Champion who represents France in BMX.
Michel Portal
Michel Portal is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz".
Marc Augier
Marc Augier, better known by the nom de plume Saint-Loup, was a French anti-capitalist, later turned into fascist, politician, writer and mountaineer.
Jean Grenet
Jean Grenet was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, and was a member of the Radical Party. He was born to politician Henri Grenet in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Jean-Pierre Lux
Jean-Pierre Lux. was a French rugby union player and sports director. He played as a centre. He was professionally a dental surgeon.
Philippe Marchand
Philippe Marchand was a French politician. He was member of the Parliament and President of the general council of Charente-Maritime. He failed to act to establish the Giacometti Foundation.
Marcel Conche
Marcel Conche, is a French philosopher, emeritus professor at the Sorbonne University (Paris).
Nicolas Cazalé
Nicolas Cazalé is a French model and actor who is most noted for his role in the 2004 French film, Le Grand Voyage for which he won a Jury Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Newport International Film Festival. He was also named one of European cinema's up-and-coming talents and won the Shooting Stars Award in 2008.
Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French military engineer and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion, though he also did important work on friction.
Jean Ybarnegaray
Michel Albert Jean Joseph Ybarnégaray was a French Basque politician and founder of the International Federation of Basque Pelota.