List of people from Nantes

This is a list of people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Nantes, France.

A

• Anne of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany and Queen consort of France (only woman to have married two kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII)

B

• François Bégaudeau, writer, journalist and actor
• René Berthelot (? – 1664), French actor and prominent member of Molière's theatre troupe
• Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer and professor (Prix de Rome laureate)
• Claire Bretécher, cartoonist
• Aristide Briand, French statesman (1926 Nobel Peace Prize laureate)

C

• Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob), photographer and author
• Pierre Cambronne, general (commander of the Old Guard at Waterloo)
• Jacques Cassard, corsair
• Jeanne Cherhal, singer and songwriter
• C2C, music producer

D

• Jacques Demy, movie director
• Jehan Desanges, (born 1929), historian

F

• Manu Feildel, French chef/culinary contest judge, now lives in Australia, judge of My Kitchen Rules.
• Thierry Fortineau (1953–2006), actor
• Ernest Fouinet (1799–1845), 19th-century novelist and poet.

G

• Jean Graton, cartoonist

H

• Linda Hardy, actress and model (Miss France 1992)

L

• Paul Ladmirault, composer
• Jean Leray, mathematician
• Héloïse Letissier, (aka Christine and the Queen) singer
• Paul de la Gironière, traveller
• Denys de La Patellière, film director and scriptwriter
• Julien de Lallande Poydras, New Orleans member of the United States House of Representatives
• Charles-Auguste Lebourg, sculptor
• Hugo Leclercq aka Madeon, music producer and electronic music artist

M

• Joseph Malègue, novelist
• Suzanne Malherbe (aka Marcel Moore), illustrator and designer
• Amédée Ménard, sculptor
• Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon (1702–1780), man of letters
• Anna Mouglalis, actress

P

• Yvonne Pouzin, phthisiatrist

R

• Jules Edouard Roiné, sculptor and medallist
• Benoit Regent, actor

T

• Éric Tabarly, sailor
• Sylvie Tellier, model (Miss France 2002)
• Roger Tessier (born 1939), composer
• Jérémy Toulalan, football player
• Auguste Toulmouche, painter

V

• Jules Verne, science fiction writer, traveller, lived in Nantes from birth to 1847 then went to Paris and shortly after returned to Nantes, where he stayed until July 1848
• Sandrine Voillet, art historian and television presenter

W

• Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, politician

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