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)
• Jacques Cassard (1679–1740), corsair
• 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
• Anna Mouglalis, actress

P

• 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