Personalities
Blois was the birthplace of:
- Thubois (c.1044–1090)
- Stephen (c. 1096–1154), King of England from 1135 to 1154.
- Louis XII (1462–1515), King of France from 1498 to 1515
- Jean Morin (1591–1659), theologian and biblical scholar of Protestant parents
- Denis Papin (1647 – c. 1712), physicist, mathematician and inventor
- Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras (1744–1790), royalist
- Jean Marie Pardessus (1772–1853), lawyer
- Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry (1795–1856), historian
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–1871), magician
- René Guénon (also Sheikh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya), (1886–1951), author, philosopher, social critic, the founder of the Traditionalist School
- Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), medievalist and historian
- Claudine Doury (born 1959), photographer
- Sonia Bompastor (born 1980), female footballer
- Aly Cissokho (born 1987), footballer of Senegalese descent
- Bernard Onanga Itoua footballer
- Nicolas Vogondy (born 1977), cyclist
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