List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Michel Sainte-Marie
Michel Sainte-Marie was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Gironde department, and was a member of the Socialist, radical, citizen and miscellaneous left (SRC) party.
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur was a French entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.
Natalia Pouzyreff
Natalia Pouzyreff is a French engineer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 2017, representing the department of Yvelines.
Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier
Jean-Baptiste Onésime Dutrou-Bornier was a French mariner who settled on Easter Island in 1868, purchased much of the island, removed many of the Rapa Nui people and turned the island into a sheep ranch.
Claude Geffré
Claude Geffré was a French Roman Catholic theologian. He became a Professor of Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1965, and he was the director of the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1996 to 1999. He was an expert on Biblical hermeneutics and pluralism, and the author of several books.
Raymond Oliver
Raymond Oliver (1909–1990) was chef and owner of Le Grand Véfour restaurant in Paris, one of France's great historical restaurants. Oliver detested nouvelle cuisine, preferring the rich ingredients favored by the chefs in his native Gascony.
Maurice Arreckx
Maurice Arreckx was a French politician. He served as the Mayor of Toulon from 1959 to 1985. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1978 to 1981, and again in 1986, before serving as a member of the French Senate from 1986 to 1995.
Bernard Panafieu
Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu
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Claude Guichard
Claude Guichard was a French politician and academic.