List of Famous people born in Occitania, France
Billal Bennama
Billal Bennama is a French boxer.
Romain Grau
Romain Grau is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
Laurent Pionnier
Laurent Pionnier is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Claude Fagedet
Claude Fagedet was a French photographer. He took many photographs of Occitanie, including his hometown of Narbonne and the chalets in Gruissan. He also took photographs on his many trips abroad. He was awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
Jean-Luc Sassus
Jean-Luc Sassus was a French international footballer who played as a defender. He died of a heart attack on 22 May 2015.
Yvan Lachaud
Yvan Lachaud is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Gard department, and is a member of the New Centre.
Étienne Terrus
Étienne Joseph Mathieu Terrus was a French painter from Roussillon.
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Comte de Brueys was a French naval officer who fought in the American War of Independence and as a commander in the French Revolutionary Wars. He led the French fleet in the Mediterranean campaign of 1798 until his death at the Battle of the Nile, at the rank of Vice-Admiral. He was also a Freemason in the La Bonne Foi lodge at Montauban.
Pierre Picaud
Pierre Picaud was a 19th-century shoemaker in Nîmes, France who may have been the basis for the character of Edmond Dantès in Alexandre Dumas, père's 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand was a French chemist, physicist, inventor, and a pioneer in parachuting.