List of Famous people born in Occitania, France

Dimitri Szarzewski is a former French rugby union footballer. His usual position was at hooker, and also represented France.

Étienne Roda-Gil was a songwriter and screenwriter.

Jean Patry is a French volleyball player, member of the French national team and Italian club Allianz Milano. He participated at the 2017 European Championship.

Guilaine Londez is a French film actress. She appeared in more than sixty films since 1991.

Tristan Garcia is a French philosopher and novelist. His first novel, La meilleure part des hommes (2008), won France’s Prix de Flore. It was translated into English in 2010 with the title Hate: A Romance. His most important philosophical work, Form and Object, was translated into English in 2014.

Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist.

Jean-Paul Garraud is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the 10th constituency of the Gironde department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, later The Republicans. He is currently an independent; however, he was elected under the National Rally list along with other independent, Thierry Mariani, in the 2019 European Parliament election in France.

Laurent Saint-Martin is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Val-de-Marne.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet. Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri de Navarre for most of his career. Du Bartas was celebrated across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe for his divine poetry, particularly L'Uranie (1574), Judit (1574), La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), and La Seconde Semaine (1584-1603).

Frédéric Mion is a French civil servant, and former director of Sciences Po. Formerly, he was Secretary-General of Canal+.