Famous People
- Professor Jean Delumeau, historian, stays frequently in Les Houches and practices mountaineering.
- Catherine Destivelle, mountaineer.
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize for Physics, came to study and teach at the Physics School of Les Houches (l'École de Physique des Houches).
- Christophe Profit, mountaineer.
- Marie Paradis (1778-1839), first female to climb Mont Blanc in July 1808.
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