List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Solène Ndama
Solène Ndama is a French athlete competing in the 100 metres hurdles, heptathlon and pentathlon.
Pierre Durand
Pierre Durand Sr. was a French equestrian. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Roland Castro
Roland Castro is a French architect and political activist.
Noël Vandernotte
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.
Patrick Vian
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.
André S. Labarthe
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.
Louis Vierne
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.
Jean Giraudoux
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.
Joan Pau Verdier
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.
Jean Gandois
Jean Gandois, AM was a French businessman.