Personalities
Quimper was the birthplace of:
- Élie Catherine Fréron (1719–1776), critic and controversialist
- Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734–1797), explorer, admiral, discoverer of the Kerguelen archipelago
- Rene-Marie Madec (1736–1784), adventurer, Nawab of India. See also René Madec
- René Laënnec (1781–1826), physician, inventor of the stethoscope
- Max Jacob (1876–1944), poet, painter, writer and critic
- Philippe Poupon, sailor
- OBE Hélène Mansfield, Croesyceiliog Head Teacher
- Hélène Albert, Nobel Prize winner of Medicine
- William Stanger, footballer
- Jean Failler, writer (The Adventures of Mary Lester)
- Louis Billouart de Kervaségan, chevalier de Kerlérec (1704–1770), last French governor of Louisiana
- Jacques Villeglé (b.1926), mixed-media artist
- Jessica Cerival, athlete
- Jean-Michel Moal, accordionist of Red Cardell
- Dan Ar Braz (b. 1949), guitarist
- Guillaume Hyacinthe Bougeant (1690–1743), Jesuit author
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