Dijon - Personalities

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