List of Famous people born in Pays de la Loire, France
Denis Bouanga
Denis Athanase Bouanga is a French-born Gabonese professional footballer who plays as a winger for AS Saint-Étienne and the Gabon national team.
Olivier Rey
Olivier Rey, is a French mathematician and philosopher. He is a specialist of transhumanism.
Imran Louza
Imran Louza is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Nantes. Louza formerly represented Morocco as a youth international.
Stéphane Le Foll
Stéphane Le Foll is a French politician serving as Mayor of Le Mans since 2018. A member of the Socialist Party, he was Minister of Agriculture under President François Hollande from 2012 to 2017.
François Bachelot
François Bachelot was a French physician and politician.
Aurélien Bellanger
Aurélien Bellanger, born 20 April 1980 in Laval, Mayenne, is a French writer and actor. He debuted in 2010 with a monograph about Michel Houellebecq and has since published four novels. His second novel, L'Aménagement du territoire, received the 2014 Prix de Flore. Due to his occupation with technology and modern life, his novels have been compared to the works of Houellebecq and Honoré de Balzac. In La Croix, Sabine Audrerie notes "S'il fallait chercher un lien, on pourrait retenir la volonté de s'inscrire dans l'héritage balzacien." Less elogious, Jérôme Dupuis of L'Express described him as "a Houellebecq without humour, without sex, without aphorism, without melancholy".
Lionel Stoléru
Lionel Guy Stoléru was a French politician and civil servant. He was also an orchestra founder and conductor.
Jean Leray
Jean Leray was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology.
Mickaël Landreau
Mickaël Vincent André-Marie Landreau is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
Daniel Gélin
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.