page_title: Biarritz
section_title: Notable people and popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Biarritz / Notable people and popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Old harbor, beach and lighthouse of Biarritz
context_page_description: Biarritz is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located 35 kilometres from the border with Spain. It is a luxurious seaside tourist destination known for the Hôtel du Palais, its casinos in front of the sea and its surfing culture.
context_section_description: Biarritz was the birthplace of:
  Yannick Bellon (1924 - 2019), film director
  Jacques Bergerac (1927 - 2014), actor
  Jean Borotra (1898–1994), tennis player
  Léopold Eyharts (born 1957), astronaut
  Ernest Fourneau (1872–1949), chemist
  Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey (1877–1963), British civil servant
  Maurice Journeau (1898–1999), composer
  Arnaud Massy (1877–1950), professional golfer
  Other notable people associated with Biarritz:
  Aaron Bank (1902–2004), World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agent and co-founder of the U.S. Army's Special Forces Group (later, Green Berets), a lifeguard and medical (physical) therapist's aide at Biarritz before he enlisted in the army in the late 1930s
  Aimée de Heeren, born Soto-Maior de Sá (1903–2006) WW2 Secret Service agent for President Getúlio Vargas, owned many jewels of Eugenie de Montijo and the villa La Roseraie, 12 rue Martias, where she spent summers for half a century, receiving kings, heads of state, and many famous guests
  Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), the wife of Napoléon III, who built the villa Eugénie, today the Hôtel du Palais
  Pablo de Sarasate (10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908), a well known Romantic Era Spanish composer born in Pamplona, Spain, who died in this city
  Louis Dewis (1872–1946), born Louis DeWachter, Belgian Post-Impressionist who, after fleeing Paris at the beginning of World War II, settled here in 1940, living at Villa Pat in Bellefontaine until his death
caption: Fishing port, beach, and lighthouse
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