List of Famous people born in Occitania, France

Jean-Paul Cara is a French singer and composer. He has authored several songs that have won prizes at the Eurovision contest, most notably the single L'Oiseau et l'Enfant in collaboration with Joe Gracy and performed by Marie Myriam.

Pauline Fourès, born Pauline Bellisle, was a French painter and novelist in addition to being a mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Frédéric Petit was a French astronomer. He was the first director of the Toulouse Observatory, located in Toulouse, France, serving from 1838 to 1865. In 1846 he announced that he had discovered a second moon of Earth. The theory was later dismissed by his peers, although the concept of a second smaller satellite of the Earth was used by Jules Verne in his novel From the Earth to the Moon.

Pierre Vilar was a French historian specialized in the history of Catalonia and hispanism. He is considered one of the most authoritative 20th-century historians for the history of Spain, for both the Ancien Régime and modern history. He and Jaume Vicens Vives were among the most influential historians of Catalonia.

Louis Fourestier was a French conductor, composer and pedagogue, and was one of the founders of the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris.

Frédéric Rodriguez-Luz, also known as Frédéric Luz, is a French writer and heraldist. He is also the current pretender to the "throne" of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia, "an ephemeral 19th-century state." This has also been described as a "non-existent kingdom not recognized by any State" currently represented by a French non-profit organization dedicated to international campaigning on behalf of the Mapuche people.