Personalities
- Louis Xavier Edouard Léopold Ollier, (1830–1900), born in Les Vans,
inventor of orthopaedics and reconstructive surgery
- Léonce Vieljeux, (1865–1944), born in Les Vans, Mayor of La Rochelle, reserve Colonel and
network agent of the Allied Resistance, executed at Struthof in 1944. The college at Les Vans today bears his name.
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