List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Solène Ndama

First Name Solène
Born on September 23, 1998 (age 27)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Solène Ndama is a French athlete competing in the 100 metres hurdles, heptathlon and pentathlon.

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Pierre Durand

Pierre Eugène André Durand
First Name Pierre
Last Name Durand
Born on December 15, 1931
Died on October 2, 2016 (aged 84)

Pierre Durand Sr. was a French equestrian. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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Roland Castro

First Name Roland
Last Name Castro
Born on October 16, 1940 (age 85)

Roland Castro is a French architect and political activist.

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Noël Vandernotte

First Name Noël
Last Name Vandernotte
Born on December 25, 1923
Died on June 19, 2020 (aged 96)

Noël Vandernotte was a French rowing coxswain who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was the son of Fernand Vandernotte and the nephew of Marcel Vandernotte. In 1936 he won the bronze medal of the French boat in the coxed pairs event as well as in the coxed four competition. He was the youngest male medalist at the 1936 Games, at 12 years and 233 days, and is also the youngest French Olympic medalist of all-time.

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Patrick Vian

First Name Patrick
Last Name Vian
Born on April 12, 1942 (age 84)

Patrick Vian is a French musician. He played progressive punk/rock music in the late 1960s with the band Red Noise, which recorded one album. In the 1970s, he composed music for a film and released one solo album, Bruits et Temps Analogues, in 1976.

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André S. Labarthe

André Sylvain Labarthe
First Name André
Last Name Labarthe
Born on December 18, 1931
Died on March 5, 2018 (aged 86)

André S. Labarthe was a French actor, film producer and director. He starred alongside Anna Karina in the 1962 film Vivre sa vie. He was the director of many television documentaries that profile specific individuals, beginning with Cinéastes de notre temps.

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Louis Vierne

First Name Louis
Last Name Vierne
Born on October 8, 1870
Died on June 2, 1937 (aged 66)

Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer. As the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death, he focused on organ music, including six organ symphonies and a Messe solennelle for choir and two organs. He toured Europe and the United States as a concert organist. His students included Nadia Boulanger and Maurice Duruflé.

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Jean Giraudoux

First Name Jean
Last Name Giraudoux
Born on October 29, 1882
Died on January 31, 1944 (aged 61)

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal.

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Joan Pau Verdier

Jean-Paul Albert Verdier
First Name Joan
Last Name Verdier
Born on February 1, 1947
Died on June 21, 2020 (aged 73)

Joan Pau Verdier was a French singer born in Périgueux, Dordogne, who performed in both Occitan and French. He was one of the main figures of Nòva chançon musical renewal wave during the 1970s.

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Jean Gandois

Jean Guy Alphonse Gandois
First Name Jean
Last Name Gandois
Born on May 7, 1930
Died on August 7, 2020 (aged 90)

Jean Gandois, AM was a French businessman.

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