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

Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was a French Republican politician who served as the 29th Prime Minister of France.

Lilian Jégou is a French road racing cyclist.

Freddy Bichot is a French road racing cyclist who last rode for Véranda Rideau-Super U.

Jean-Baptiste Bouvier was a French theologian and Bishop of Le Mans.

Jonathan Thiré is a French amateur road bicycle racer for Team U Nantes Atlantique. He previously competed as a professional for Auber 93, between 2008 and 2012.

Émile René Lemonnier was a French Army general who served during World War I and World War II. Stationed in French Indochina in 1945, he was beheaded by the Japanese during their March coup d'état.

Claude Chappe was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system consisted of a series of towers, each within line of sight of others, each supporting a wooden mast with two crossarms on pivots that could be placed in various positions. The operator in a tower moved the arms to a sequence of positions, spelling out text messages in semaphore code. The operator in the next tower read the message through a telescope, then passed it on to the next tower. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, and was used until the 1850s when electric telegraph systems replaced it.