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

Éric Marcel Guy Tabarly was a French Navy officer and yachtsman. He was a member of the Yacht Club de France.

Jeanne Cherhal is a French singer-songwriter.

Yannick Bestaven is a French sailor born on 28 December 1972 in Saint-Nazaire in the Loire-Atlantique region. He is an offshore sailor and winner of the Transat 6.50 in 2001 and twice winner of the Transat Jacques-Vabre. In January 2021, he won the 2020–2021 Vendée Globe for IMOCA 60 class yachts on board Maître CoQ IV, formerly known as Safran II. He won despite crossing the line in third position, thanks to a time bonus received for participating in the rescue of fellow sailor Kevin Escoffier, earlier in the race. An engineer by training, he is the co-designer of the Watt and Sea hydrogenator designed by Eric Tabarly.

Maurice Barrier was a French actor and singer.

Jérôme Fourquet is a French political analyst who specializes in the study of opinion polling. Since 2011, he has been the director of the "Public opinion and corporate strategy" department at the French polling organization Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP).

Jamy Gourmaud is a journalist well known from the educational TV show C'est pas sorcier that he presented with Frédéric Courant and Sabine Quindou and was produced by the channel France 3 from 1993 until 2014.

Valérie Trierweiler is a French journalist and author. She has hosted political talk shows and has contributed to Paris Match. She is best known for having been the partner of the president of France, François Hollande, until January 2014.

Thierry Solère is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2012 elections, representing the department of Hauts-de-Seine.

Pierre-Ambroise Bosse is a French track and field athlete specializing in middle-distance running, and in particular the 800 metres event.

Jacques Demy was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style. Demy's style drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the documentary realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity, lush musical scores and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).