Personalities
- John the Fearless (1371–1419), Duke of Burgundy
- Charles, Duke of Burgundy (1433–1477)
- Jane Frances de Chantal (Jeanne – Françoise Frémiot, baronne de Chantal, 1572–1641), founder of the Visitation Order
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), bishop and theologist
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), composer
- François Chaussier (1746–1828), physician
- Bernard Courtois (1777–1838), discoverer of the element iodine
- François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor
- Augustin Cauchy (1789–1867), mathematician
- Henry Darcy (1803–1858), engineer
- François Jouffroy (1806–1882), sculptor
- Henri Legrand du Saulle (1830 – 1886), psychiatrist
- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), engineer and architect
- Elizabeth of the Trinity (Marie – Élisabeth Catez, 1880–1906), Carmelite nun and religious writer
- Roger Guillemin (b. 1924), Nobel laurate in Physiology and Medicine
- Jean-Pierre Marielle (b. 1932), actor
- Claude Jade (1948–2006), actress
- Jean-Marc Boivin (1951–1990), extreme sports specialist
- Vitalic (born as Pascal Arbez in 1976), an electronic music artist
- Julien Pillet (b. 1977), olympic medalist sabre fencer
- Anne-Caroline Chausson (b. 1977), olympic medalist BMX racer
- Madjid Bougherra (b. 1982), Rangers F.C. football/soccer player
- Laurent Chambertin (b. 1966), volleyball player
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