List of Famous people born in Occitania, France

Sophie Barthes is a French-American film director and screenwriter best known for her 2009 film Cold Souls.

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes was a French painter who was influential in elevating the status of En plein air .

Jacques Louis Eugène Rouché was a French art and music patron. He was the owner of the journal La Grande Revue and manager of the Théâtre des Arts and the Paris Opera.

François-Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis, styled as the Chevalier de Lévis until 1785, was a nobleman and a Marshal of France. He served with distinction in the War of the Polish Succession and the War of the Austrian Succession. During the Seven Years' War, he was second-in-command to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm in the defense of New France and then, after the surrender of New France in 1760, he served in Europe. After the war, he was appointed Governor of Artois, and in 1783 he was made a Marshal of France.

Georges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science.

Pierre Sancan was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor. Along with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux, he was a major figure among French musicians in the mid-twentieth-century transition between modern and contemporary eras; but outside France his name is almost unknown.