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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