Personalities
- Muriel Barbery (born 1969), writer
- Berengar II of Neustria (died 896 AD), Count of Bayeux
- Roger Bésus (1915–1994), sculptor and writer
- Frédéric Born (born 1975), footballer
- Alain Chartier (1392–1430), politician and poet
- Pierre Du Bosc (1623–1692), preacher
- Franck Dumas (born 1968), footballer and coach Stade Malherbe de Caen
- Jean-Léonce Dupont (born 1955), senator and former mayor
- Arcisse de Caumont (1801–1873), archaeologist, founded the Societé des Antiquaires de Normandy
- François de Caumont (1768–1848), designer and painter
- Miss George (1787–1867), actress and mistress of Napoleon
- Georges Lenepveu (1857–1923), inventor and master glassmaker
- François Gérard (1770–1837), painter and member of Bayeux
- Jean Grémillon (1901–1959), film director
- Joachim Rupalley (1718–1780) painter
- Édouard Lair de Beauvais, (1790–1851), architect
- Alfred Lair de Beauvais (1820–1869), organist and composer
- Robert Lefèvre (1755–1830), painter
- Lionel Lemonchois (born 1960), navigator
- Léon Le Cieux (1821–1873), violinist
- Damien Letulle (born 1973), Olympic archer
- Gabriel-Narcisse Rupalley (1745–1798), painter
- Saint Marcouf (died 588 AD), saint born in Bayeux, best known for the healing of scrofula
- Éric Navet (born 1959), jockey
- Poppa of Bayeux, daughter of Berengar II, wife of Rollo
- Saint Vigor (died 537 AD), bishop of Bayeux from 513 to 537, destroyed a pagan temple in Bayeux
- William the Conqueror/Duke of Normandy, Conqueror of England in 1066
- Exuperius, (end of 4th century– died c. 410) Archbishop of Toulouse.
- Alfred-Georges Regner 1902-1987, painter-engraver
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