Agen - Personalities

Personalities

As place of birth
  • Bernard Palissy (c. 1510–1590), potter – according to some accounts, he may have been born in Saintes
  • Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), scholar
  • Pierre Dupuy (1582–1651), scholar
  • Joseph Barsalou (1600–1660), physician
  • Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades (1607–1686), diplomatist and marshal
  • Bernard Germain Étienne comte de La Ville-sur-Illon La Cépède (1756–1825), naturalist
  • Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1780–1846), naturalist
  • Jacques Jasmin (1798–1864), Provençal poet
  • Joseph Chaumié (1849–1919), politician
  • William Grover-Williams (1903–1945) racer and SOE agent
  • Michel Serres (born 1930), philosopher and author
  • Jacques Sadoul (born 1934), author
  • Jean Cruguet (born 1939), jockey who won the U.S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
  • Alain Aspect (born 1947), physicist
  • Francis Cabrel (born 1953), singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Bernard Campan (born 1958), actor and film director
  • Stéphane Rideau (born 1976), actor
As residence
  • Nostradamus lived in Agen from 1531 until at least 1534. He was married to a local woman with whom he had two children.

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