Personalities
Chartres was the birthplace of:
- Fulcher of Chartres (born around 1059 in or near Chartres), chronicler of the First Crusade
- Philippe Desportes (1546–1606), poet
- Mathurin Régnier (1573–1613), satirist
- André Félibien (1619–1695), architect and historiographer
- Pierre Nicole (1625–1695), Jansenist theologian
- Philippe de Dangeau (1638–1720), officer and member of the Académie française
- Antoine François Desrues (1744–1777), poisoner
- Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754–1793), a leading member of the Girondist movement (French Revolution)
- Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756–1794), writer and politician
- François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers (1769–1796), general
- Achille Guénée (1809–1880), lawyer and entomologist
- Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814–1886), editor and publisher
- Jacqueline de Romilly (born 1913), philologist
- Nicolas Escudé (born 1976), professional tennis player
- Julien Escudé (born 1979), professional footballer for Sevilla FC and the France national football team
- Loïc Duval (born 12 June 1982), professional racingdriver; currently A1 Team France, Formula Nippon and Super GT
- Julien Cetout footballer
- Laura Kamdop, handball player
- Allison Pineau handball player
- Eric Lada footballer
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