Notable People
- Giuseppe Garibaldi – Italian general, politician and patriot.
- Albert Calmette – French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist,
- Simone Veil – French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France. Survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
- Joann Sfar – French comics artist, comic book creator and film director.
- Jean-Pierre Mocky – French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer
- J. M. G. Le Clézio – French author and professor, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature
- René Cassin – French jurist, law professor and judge, former student of Nice's Lycée Massena, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968
- André Masséna – 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling, one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire, French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, his nickname was l'Enfant chéri de la Victoire ("the Dear Child of Victory")
- Henry Cavendish – British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen
- Lance Armstrong – cyclist (used to live in Nice)
- Surya Bonaly – figure skater
- Dominic Howard – Drummer for Muse currently lives in Nice
- Hugo Lloris – footballer
- Dominique Jean-Zéphirin footballer
- Gilles Simon – tennis player
- Alizé Cornet – tennis player
- Priscilla Betti – singer and actress
- Michel Siffre – adventurer and scientist
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