List of Famous people born in Occitania, France

Mathieu Chabert is a French football manager and a former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the manager of Châteauroux in Championnat National.

Chantal Garrigues was a French actress. Over the course of her career, she appeared in a dozen films. She was also a stage and television actress, and she played Gisèle Favrot in Soda.

Sébastien Roch is a French actor, singer and television host. He achieved notability with his role of Christian in the TV series Hélène et les Garçons and Les Vacances de l'amour. He had also a success with his 1993 single, "Au Bar de Jess", which peaked at number 17 in France.

Mady Mesplé was a French opera singer, considered the leading coloratura soprano of her generation in France, and sometimes heralded as the successor to Mado Robin, with Lakmé by Delibes becoming her signature role internationally.

Jean-Pierre Mader is a French singer-songwriter and producer. He remains particularly known for his smash hit "Macumba", released in 1985. After his singing career during the 1980s, he became producer for many French artists, such as Michel Fugain, Philippe Léotard and Bernard Lavilliers.

Guilhem Guirado is a French rugby union player, who plays for French Top 14 side, Montpellier. Guirado was the captain of France from 2016 to 2019.

Grégori Derangère is a French actor.

Georges Frêche was a French politician. He served as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region from 2004 until his death: prior to that, he had been mayor of Montpellier for 27 years, and was also a former member (député) of the National Assembly. Frêche had been a member of the French Socialist Party until he was expelled on January 27, 2007.

Jean-François Sudre, also written Sudré, was a violinist, composer and music teacher who invented a musical language called la Langue musicale universelle or Solrésol.

Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre was a French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916. He is best known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in September 1914.