page_title: Le Havre
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: Le Havre / People
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846)
context_page_description: Le Havre is an urban French commune and city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northwestern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux. Le Havre is the most populous commune of Upper Normandy, although the total population of the greater Le Havre conurbation is smaller than that of Rouen. After Reims, it is also the second largest subprefecture in France. The name Le Havre means "the harbour" or "the port". Its inhabitants are known as Havrais or Havraises.
  The city and port were founded by King Francis I in 1517. Economic development in the Early modern period was hampered by religious wars, conflicts with the English, epidemics, and storms. It was from the end of the 18th century that Le Havre started growing and the port took off first with the slave trade then other international trade. After the 1944 bombings the firm of Auguste Perret began to rebuild the city in concrete.
context_section_description: Le Havre was the birthplace of:
  Georges de Scudéry (1601–1667), novelist, dramatist and poet
  Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701), writer
  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), writer and botanist
  Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778–1846), naturalist, artist and explorer
  Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843), poet and dramatist
  Gabriel Monod (1844–1912), historian
  Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines (1845–c. 1935), artist
  Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), mathematician
  Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), painter
  André Caplet (1878–1925), composer and conductor
  René Coty (1882–1962), French president (1954–1959)
  Suzanne Balguerie (1888–1973), French soprano
  Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), composer, a member of Les Six
  Thomas Roberts (1893–1976), Roman Catholic archbishop
  Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), artist
  Jean Mallon (1904–1982), palaeographer
  Raymond Queneau (1903–1976), poet and novelist
  Jacques Leguerney (1906–1997), composer
  Bénédicte Pesle (1927–2018), arts patron
  Tristan Murail (born 1947), composer
  Laurent Ruquier (born 1963), journalist
  Jérôme Le Banner (born 1972), K-1 Fighter
  Olivier Durand (born 1967), guitarist for Elliott Murphy
  Eugenia DeLamare (1824–1907) – Guilherme Schüch – Wife – Baron Von Capanema
  Elvire Murail (born 1958), writer for children
  Vikash Dhorasoo, (born 1973), International footballer
  Gueïda Fofana, footballer
  Olivier Davidas, footballer
  Dimitri Dragin, judoka
  Sylvain Poirier, mathematician
  Julien Faubert, footballer
  Fouleymata Camara, handball player
  Kevin Anin, footballer
  govy, (born 1981), artist
  Others linked to the city
  Rex Cherryman, died here in 1925
  Patrick Demarchelier, fashion photographer, born in Le Havre
  Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, grew up in Le Havre
  Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, taught at the Lycée François-Ier (Le Havre)
caption: Charles Alexandre Leseur in 1818
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