List of Famous people born in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Pascal Mazzotti
Pasquale "Pascal" Mazzotti was a French actor who has appeared in film, television, and theater. He is known for having played a role in Hibernatus with Louis de Funès, as well as provided the voice of Le roi in the animated feature film, Le Roi et l'oiseau.
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office. He is best known as the highly-efficient top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet, which directed Britain during the First World War.
Élisée Reclus
Jacques Élisée Reclus was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In 1892 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism.
Arnaud Marquesuzaa
Arnaud Richard Marquesuzaa was a French rugby union player who played centre and flanker. He won the Top 14 Championship three times: with Racing 92 in 1959, FC Lourdes in 1960, and US Montauban in 1967.
Philippe Sella
Philippe Sella started life as a rugby league junior in his home town before switching to rugby union. As a former French rugby union player, he held the record for most international appearances until beaten by Jason Leonard. He became a member of the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 1999, and the IRB Hall of Fame in 2008.
Gilbert Charles-Picard
Gilbert Picard, called Gilbert Charles-Picard, was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, a specialist of North Africa during Antiquity.
Jacques Mitterrand
Eugène Goossens
Eugène Goossens was a French born conductor and violinist.
Jean-Baptiste Moreau
Jean-Baptiste Moreau is a French cattle farmer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Creuse.
Christian Massé
Christian Massé was a French writer. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Julien Viaud and published in the journals Plaisir d'écrire of Perpignan and Le Jardin d'Essai of Paris.