# 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 (1477–1514), Duchess of Brittany and Queen consort of France (only woman to have married two kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII)

## B

* Jean Marguerite Bachelier (1751-1843), revolutionary
* Charles-Amable Battaille (1822–1872), French operatic bass
* Henri-Franck Beaupérin (born 1968), classical organist
* François Bégaudeau (born 1971), writer, journalist and actor
* René Berthelot (? – 1664), French actor and prominent member of Molière's theatre troupe
* Sophie Berthelot (1837–1907), wife of Marcellin Berthelot and the first woman to be interred at the Panthéon
* Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840–1910), composer and professor (Prix de Rome laureate)
* Claire Bretécher (1940–2020), cartoonist
* Aristide Briand (1862–1932), French statesman (1926 Nobel Peace Prize laureate)

## C

* Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954), photographer and author
* Pierre Cambronne, general (commander of the Old Guard at Waterloo)
* Célanie Carissan (1843–1927), composer, writer and pianist
* Jacques Cassard (1679–1740), corsair
* Benoit Cauet (born 1969), football player and manager.
* Jeanne Cherhal, singer-songwriter
* Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie (1832–1911), French royal and general
* C2C, music producer

## D

* Jacques Demy, movie director
* Jehan Desanges, (1929–2021), 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 (1923–2021), cartoonist, creator of Michel Vaillant
* Brigitte Grésy (born 1947), French minister

## H

* Linda Hardy (born 1973), actress and model (Miss France 1992)

## L

* Paul Ladmirault (1844–1944), composer
* Paul de la Gironière (1797–1862), traveller
* Julien de Lallande Poydras (1740–1824), New Orleans member of the United States House of Representatives, merchant, planter, financier, poet and educator
* Denys de La Patellière (1921–2013), film director and scriptwriter
* Charles-Auguste Lebourg (1829–1906), sculptor
* Hugo Leclercq, aka Madeon (born 1994), music producer and electronic music artist
* Pierre Le Faguays (1892–1962), sculptor
* Jean Leray (1906–1998), mathematician
* Héloïse Letissier (born 1988), (aka Christine and the Queen) singer

## M

* Joseph Malègue (1876-1940), novelist
* Suzanne Malherbe (aka Marcel Moore), illustrator and designer
* Hugo Marchand, ballet dancer
* Pierre Mauget, professional footballer
* Amédée Ménard, sculptor
* Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon (1702–1780), man of letters
* Alice Milliat, pioneer od women's sport
* Anna Mouglalis, actress

## P

* Claude Perron, actress
* Yvonne Pouzin (1884–1947), phthisiatrist, wife of Joseph Malègue

## R

* Jules Edouard Roiné, sculptor and medallist
* Benoit Regent (1953–1994), actor

## S

* Constance de Salm (1767–1845), poet and miscellaneous writer; through her second marriage, she became Princess of Salm-Dyck
* Alice Sauvrezis (1866–1946), composer, pianist, and choral conductor

## T

* Éric Tabarly (1931–1998), sailor
* Sylvie Tellier (born 1978), model (Miss France 2002)
* Roger Tessier (born 1939), composer
* Jérémy Toulalan (born 1983), football player
* Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890), 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
* Louis Vuillemin (1879–1929), composer

## W

* Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), politician