Notable People
Roubaix was the birthplace of:
- Bernard Arnault (born 1949), businessman
- Michel Breistroff (1971–1996) hockey player
- Étienne Chatiliez (born 1952), film director
- David Coulibaly footballer
- Stanislas Dehaene (born 1965), cognitive psychologist
- Georges Delerue (1925–1992), film composer who worked on over 300 films
- Jean Desbouvrie (c. 1840–1847 – ?) inventor and bird tamer
- Arnaud Desplechin (born 1960) – film director
- Aliou Dia, footballer
- Yero Dia footballer
- Anthony Knockaert (born 1991) footballer
- Léon Mathot (1886–1968) – French film actor and director
- Martial Mbandjock athlete
- Pierre Pflimlin (1907–2000), Christian Democratic politician who served as the last Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic
- Viviane Romance (1912–1991), actress
- Daouda Sow boxer
- Arnaud Tournant (1978) track cyclist
- Maxence Van Der Meersch (1907–1951) writer
and home of Joseph Willot (1875–1919) pharmacist and World War I resistance activist.
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