Personalities
Arras was one of the centers of trouvère poetry, and trouvères from Arras include:
- Adam de la Halle (c.1240–88)
- Andrieu Contredit d'Arras († c.1248)
- Audefroi le Bastart (fl. c1200–1230)
- Dame Margot
- Dame Maroie
- Gaidifer d'Avion
- Guillaume le Vinier (fl. c1220–45; †1245)
- Jacques le Vinier
- Jehan Bretel (c1200–1272)
- Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (fl. c1240–70)
- Jehan Erart († c1259)
- Mahieu de Gant
- Moniot d'Arras (fl c1250–75)
- Robert de Castel
- Robert de la Piere
Arras was the birthplace of:
- Matthias of Arras (1290?–1352), architect
- Antoine de Févin (c.1470–1511 or 1512), composer
- Charles de l'Écluse (1526–1609), doctor and pioneering botanist
- Philippe Rogier (c. 1561–1596), composer
- Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794), French revolutionary leader
- Joseph le Bon (1765–1795), politician
- Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857), one of the first modern private investigators
- Lucien Gaudin (1886–1934), fencing champion
- Gabriel Hanot (1889–1968), journalist
- Violette Leduc (1907–1972), author
- Jean-Christophe Novelli (born 1961), chef and restaurateur
- Benoît Assou-Ekotto (born 1984), footballer
- Jean Pierre Arras (born 1998), footballer
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