List of Famous people born in Pays de la Loire, France
Philippe Redon
Philippe Redon was a French football player and manager.
Simon Falette
Simon Augustin Falette is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a centre back for German club Hannover 96.
Philippe Médard
Philippe Médard was a French handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Bryan Coquard
Bryan Coquard is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam B&B Hotels p/b KTM. He was a silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Omnium.
Jean Bodin
Jean Bodin was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. He is best known for his theory of sovereignty; he was also an influential writer on demonology.
James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot, Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was a French army general during World War II and the First Indochina War. He was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France.
Pierre Loutrel
Pierre Loutrel, better known by his nickname of "Pierrot le fou" was France's first "public enemy number one" and one of the leaders of the Gang des tractions.
Muriel Hermine
Muriel Hermine is a synchronized swimmer from France. She competed in the 1984, 1988 Summer Olympics and won the 50-59 solo world title in the 2015 FINA Masters World Championships at the age of 51.
Constance de Salm
Constance de Salm was a French poet and miscellaneous writer. She wrote a series of poetical "Epistles", one "To Women", another "On the Blindness of this Age". She also wrote, My Threescore Years (1833); The Twenty-Four Hours of a Sensible Woman; and Cantata on the Marriage of Napoleon. Through her second marriage, she became Princess of Salm-Dyck. Salm was "the first woman to be admitted to the Lyceum des Arts".