Personalities
- Marcel Baudouin (1860–1941) -physician
- Narcisse Pelletier (1844–1894) -castaway
- Benjamin Bénéteau, founder of the commune in 1884.
- Marie de Beaucaire (1535–1613), Baronness of Rié. Did much to facilitate development into a town.,.
- Pierre Desproges (1939–1988), comedian
- Pierre Garcie-Ferrande, (1430–1520) cartographer.
- Charles Atamian (1872-1947) -painter, painted many scenes of the Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie shore.
- Émile Goué (1904–1946), composer, composed Wanda (1934) situated in Croix-de-Vie.
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