Personalities
Bordeaux was the birthplace of:
- Bertrand Andrieu (1761–1822), engraver
- Jean Anouilh (1910–1987), dramatist
- Yvonne Arnaud (1892–1958), actress
- Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310–395), Roman poet and rhetorician
- Floyd Ayité, footballer
- Jonathan Ayité, footballer
- François Bigot (1703–1778), last "Intendant" of New France
- Samuel Boutal, footballer
- Edmond de Caillou (d.c.February 1316) Gascon knight fighting in Scotland
- René Clément (1913–1996), actor, director, writer
- Jean-René Cruchet (1875–1959), pathologist
- Damia (1899–1978), singer
- Lili Damita (1901–1994), actress
- Frédéric Daquin, footballer
- Danielle Darrieux (born 1917), actress
- David Diop, poet
- Jacques Ellul (1912–1994), sociologist, theologian, Christian anarchist
- Marie Fel (1713–1794), opera singer
- Jérôme Gnako, footballer
- Eugène Goossens (1867–1958), conductor, violinist
- Lucenzo (born 1983), singer
- Bruno Marie-Rose, athlete
- François Mauriac (1885–1970), writer, Nobel laureate
- Édouard Molinaro (born 1928), film director, producer
- Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), essayist
- Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty (1768–1815), general
- Pierre Palmade (born 1968), actor, author
- St. Paulinus of Nola (354–431), educator, religious figure
- Albert Pitres (1848–1928), neurologist
- Georges Antoine Pons Rayet (1839–1906), astronomer, discoverer of the Wolf-Rayet stars, & founder of the Bordeaux Observatory
- Richard II of England (1367–1400)
- Pierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist
- Jean-Jacques Sempé (born 1932), cartoonist
- Florent Serra, tennis player
- Philippe Sollers, writer
- Wilfried Tekovi, footballer
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