List of Famous people born in Pays de la Loire, France

François Allain-Targé was a French politician of the French Third Republic. He served as minister of finance under Léon Gambetta and minister of the interior under Henri Brisson.

Lucien Paye was a French politician.

Michel Crépeau was a French centre-left politician.

Jean Georges Arthuis is a French politician. Over the course of career, he has held various ministerial positions and served as Member of the European Parliament from France, where he chaired the Committee on Budgets. He also serves as Senator representing Mayenne in the French Parliament.

Luc Illusie is a French mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. His most important work concerns the theory of the cotangent complex and deformations, crystalline cohomology and the De Rham–Witt complex, and logarithmic geometry. In 2012, he was awarded the Émile Picard Medal of the French Academy of Sciences.

Élisabeth Hubert is a French doctor, politician and businesswoman. She was first elected to Parliament in 1986 to the 2nd District of Loire-Atlantique. In 1996 she became Minister for Health under the first government of Alain Juppé. She was CEO of Laboratoires Fournier from 1997 to 2004 then of Alliagis.

Pierre Goubert was a French historian. A member of the Annales School, he was a noted specialist on the 17th century. He was born in Saumur.

Jean-Claude Paye is a former French diplomat and civil servant who served as the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1984 to 1996, excluding a brief gap in 1994.