List of Famous people born in Occitania, France

Jean-Pierre Rivère is a French businessman and chairman of football club OGC Nice. Born in Condom, Gers in 1957, he founded Nice Iselection, a realty software firm that was eventually acquired by Nexity. In 2011, he assumed the chairman's role of OGC Nice.

Jean Gachassin is a former French rugby union footballer from Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées. Gachassin is also the former President of the Fédération Française de Tennis.

André Daguin was a French chef who owned, cooked, and ran the kitchen at Hôtel de France in Auch, which he inherited from his parents, before selling it to Roland Garreau in 1997.

Anthony Perez is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the Tour de France.

Saphir Sliti Taïder is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Saudi Professional League side Al-Ain, and for the Algeria national team.

Clément Jérôme Michelin is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club RC Lens. He has also represented the France national youth teams starting from the France national under-17 football team.

Henri Girard was a French author who used the pseudonym Georges Arnaud. He was born in Montpellier. He was the author of the novel The Wages of Fear.

Michel Bras is a French chef. His restaurant located in Laguiole in the Aveyron was rated three stars in the Guide Michelin since 1999. It is also classed in the "Relais & Châteaux" since 1992. He was classed several times among the 10 best restaurants in the world.

Sébastien Nadot, is a French historian, writer and politician. In the 2017 elections, he was elected as a member of La République En Marche! to the French National Assembly, representing the department of Haute-Garonne's 10th constituency. In December 2018, he was excluded from LREM for having voted against the 2019 draft budget. In May 2020, he was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly.

Jean-Claude Gayssot is a French politician. A member of the French Communist Party (PCF), he was Minister of Transportation in the government of Lionel Jospin of the Socialist Party from 1997 to 2002. He gave his name to the 1990 Gayssot Act repressing Holocaust denial and speech in favor of racial discrimination. He is also responsible for the Act on housing projects, which imposes a 20% housing projects limit in each town lest they pay a penalty fine, in an attempt to struggle against spatial segregation.