List of Famous people born in Occitania, France
Nicolas Jalabert
Nicolas Jalabert is a French former road racing cyclist. In 1997 he turned professional with the French team Cofidis. He is the younger brother of Laurent Jalabert, and followed him to ONCE in 2000 and Team CSC in 2001. In 2004, after his brother's retirement, he followed Tyler Hamilton to Phonak. When the Phonak team disbanded after the 2006 season, Jalabert moved to Agritubel.
Thierry Aubin
Thierry Aubin was a French mathematician who worked at the Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. His fundamental contributions to the theory of the Yamabe equation led, in conjunction with results of Trudinger and Schoen, to a proof of the Yamabe Conjecture: every compact Riemannian manifold can be conformally rescaled to produce a manifold of constant scalar curvature. Along with Yau, he also showed that Kähler manifolds with negative first Chern classes always admit Kähler–Einstein metrics, a result closely related to the Calabi conjecture. The latter result provides the largest class of known examples of compact Einstein manifolds. Aubin was the first mathematician to propose the Cartan–Hadamard conjecture.
Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne
Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne (c. 1080-85 – 1158) was a Provençal rabbi, also known as Raavad II, and author of the halachic work Ha-Eshkol.
Charles Noguès
Charles Noguès was a French general. He graduated from the École Polytechnique, and he was awarded the Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour in 1939.
Alain Bournazel
Alain Caillol
Jacques Esclassan
Jacques Esclassan is a French former road bicycle racer who won the green jersey in the 1977 Tour de France. He also won five stages in Tour de France and a stage in Vuelta a España.
Christian d'Orgeix
Jeanne Bot
Victor-Félix Bernadou
Victor-Félix Bernadou was a French cardinal, since 1867 Archbishop of Sens.