Bordeaux - Personalities

Personalities

Bordeaux was the birthplace of:

• Bertrand Andrieu (1761–1822), engraver
• Jean Anouilh (1910–1987), dramatist
• Yvonne Arnaud (1892–1958), actress
• Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310–395), Roman poet and rhetorician
• Floyd Ayité, footballer
• Jonathan Ayité, footballer
• François Bigot (1703–1778), last "Intendant" of New France
• Samuel Boutal, footballer
• Edmond de Caillou (d.c.February 1316) Gascon knight fighting in Scotland
• René Clément (1913–1996), actor, director, writer
• Jean-René Cruchet (1875–1959), pathologist
• Damia (1899–1978), singer
• Lili Damita (1901–1994), actress
• Frédéric Daquin, footballer
• Danielle Darrieux (born 1917), actress
• David Diop, poet
• Jacques Ellul (1912–1994), sociologist, theologian, Christian anarchist
• Marie Fel (1713–1794), opera singer
• Jérôme Gnako, footballer
• Eugène Goossens (1867–1958), conductor, violinist
• Lucenzo (born 1983), singer
• Bruno Marie-Rose, athlete
• François Mauriac (1885–1970), writer, Nobel laureate
• Édouard Molinaro (born 1928), film director, producer
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), essayist
• Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty (1768–1815), general
• Pierre Palmade (born 1968), actor, author
• St. Paulinus of Nola (354–431), educator, religious figure
• Albert Pitres (1848–1928), neurologist
• Georges Antoine Pons Rayet (1839–1906), astronomer, discoverer of the Wolf-Rayet stars, & founder of the Bordeaux Observatory
• Richard II of England (1367–1400)
• Pierre Rode (1774–1830), violinist
• Jean-Jacques Sempé (born 1932), cartoonist
• Florent Serra, tennis player
• Philippe Sollers, writer
• Wilfried Tekovi, footballer