Births
Cambrai was the birthplace of:
- Amé Bourdon (1636 or 1638–1706), physician and anatomist
- Charles François Dumouriez (1739–1823), French general
- Francisco de Carondelet (1747–1807), in Noyelles, Spanish governor of Louisiana, president of the Audiencia of Quito
- Charles Henri Joseph Cordier (1829–1905), sculptor of Ethnographic subjects.
- Marcel Lermoyez (1858–1929), otologist
- Louis Blériot (1872–1936), aviator
- Henri de Lubac (1896–1991), Jesuit and theologian
- Julien Torma (1902–1933), writer, playwright and poet
- René Dumont (1904–2001), engineer in agronomy, sociologist, and environmental politician
- Maurice Godelier (born 1934), social anthropologist, neo-Marxist, and French intellectual
- Marie-Georges Pascal (1946-1985), actress
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)