Personalities

Michel de Montaigne

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 Christine Barbe, winemaker François Bigot (1703–1778), last "Intendant" of New France Samuel Boutal, footballer Edmond de Caillou (died 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 Odilon Redon, painter 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