List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Mehdi Pascal Marcel Léris is a French professional footballer, who plays for Serie A club Sampdoria as a midfielder.

Henri de La Trémoille was the 3rd Duke of Thouars, 2nd Duke of La Tremoille, and Prince of Talmond and Taranto. He was the son of Claude de La Trémoille and his wife, Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau, and a descendant of the medieval general Louis de La Trémoille.

Pierrette Le Pen is the ex-wife of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the mother of Marine Le Pen.

Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé was the head of the senior-most cadet branch of the House of Bourbon for nearly all his life and heir presumptive to the king of France for the first few years of his life. Henri was the father of Louis, le Grand Condé, the celebrated French general.

Baptiste Chouzenoux is a French professional rugby union player. He plays at flanker for Racing 92 in the Top 14.

Nicolas-Christophe Grimal is a French Egyptologist.

Élie Reclus was a French ethnographer who studied what were then called primitive cultures, and an anarchist.

Sébastien Betbeder is a French film director. He has directed more than ten films since 2003.

Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery. Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.

Benoît Paillaugue is a French rugby union player. His position is fly-half or scrum-half and he currently plays for Montpellier Hérault in the Top 14. He began his professional career with Stade Français in 2008 playing only 2 games before moving to FC Auch Gers in the second division. After only six months with Auch he was signed by Montpellier Hérault in January 2009.