List of Famous people born in Pays de la Loire, France
Auguste Toulmouche
Auguste Toulmouche was a French painter known for his luxurious portraits of Parisian women.
Émile Girardeau
Émile Girardeau was a French engineer, famous for being the first person to patent the original system of frequencies that is used and known today as radar. He was born in 1882 at Luçon, France.
Louis Monprofit
Pierre Viansson-Ponté
Antoine Jouteau
Jean-Marc Bouju
Jean-Marc Bouju is a Los Angeles-based French photographer who won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2004.
Raymond Dronne
Capitaine Raymond Dronne, French civil servant and, following World War II, a politician. He was the second Allied officer to enter Paris as part of the liberation forces during World War II. A volunteer who joined the Free French Forces in Africa in 1940. Later, he was assigned as commanding officer of the 9e Compagnie, Régiment de Marche du Tchad, known as "La Nueve" as it was mainly composed of Spanish republicans. The 9th Company was a unit of the 3rd battalion RMT, part of the French 2nd Armored Division.
Jean Foyer
Jean Foyer was a French politician and minister. He studied law and became a law professor at the university. He wrote several books about French Civil law.