This is a list of people born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Nantes, France.
A Anne of Brittany (1477–1514), Duchess of Brittany and Queen consort of France (only woman to have married two kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII)
B Jean Marguerite Bachelier (1751-1843), revolutionary Charles-Amable Battaille (1822–1872), French operatic bass Henri-Franck Beaupérin (born 1968), classical organist François Bégaudeau (born 1971), writer, journalist and actor René Berthelot (? – 1664), French actor and prominent member of Molière's theatre troupe Sophie Berthelot (1837–1907), wife of Marcellin Berthelot and the first woman to be interred at the Panthéon Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840–1910), composer and professor (Prix de Rome laureate) Claire Bretécher (1940–2020), cartoonist Aristide Briand (1862–1932), French statesman (1926 Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
C Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954), photographer and author Pierre Cambronne, general (commander of the Old Guard at Waterloo) Célanie Carissan (1843–1927), composer, writer and pianist Jacques Cassard (1679–1740), corsair Benoit Cauet (born 1969), football player and manager. Jeanne Cherhal, singer-songwriter Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie (1832–1911), French royal and general C2C, music producer
D Jacques Demy, movie director Jehan Desanges, (1929–2021), historian
F Emerse Faé (1984), Ivorian former professional footballer Manu Feildel, French chef/culinary contest judge, now lives in Australia, judge of My Kitchen Rules. Thierry Fortineau (1953–2006), actor Ernest Fouinet (1799–1845), 19th-century novelist and poet.
G Jean Graton (1923–2021), cartoonist, creator of Michel Vaillant Brigitte Grésy (born 1947), French minister
H Linda Hardy (born 1973), actress and model (Miss France 1992)
L Paul Ladmirault (1844–1944), composer Paul de la Gironière (1797–1862), traveller Julien de Lallande Poydras (1740–1824), New Orleans member of the United States House of Representatives, merchant, planter, financier, poet and educator Denys de La Patellière (1921–2013), film director and scriptwriter Charles-Auguste Lebourg (1829–1906), sculptor Hugo Leclercq, Madeon (born 1994), music producer and electronic music artist Pierre Le Faguays (1892–1962), sculptor Jean Leray (1906–1998), mathematician Héloïse Letissier (born 1988), (a.k.a. Christine and the Queen) singer
M Joseph Malègue (1876-1940), novelist Suzanne Malherbe (a.k.a. Marcel Moore), illustrator and designer Hugo Marchand, ballet dancer Pierre Mauget, professional footballer Amédée Ménard, sculptor Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon (1702–1780), man of letters Alice Milliat, pioneer od women's sport Anna Mouglalis, actress
P Claude Perron, actress Yvonne Pouzin (1884–1947), phthisiatrist, wife of Joseph Malègue
R Jules Edouard Roiné, sculptor and medallist Benoit Regent (1953–1994), actor
S Constance de Salm (1767–1845), poet and miscellaneous writer; through her second marriage, she became Princess of Salm-Dyck Alice Sauvrezis (1866–1946), composer, pianist, and choral conductor
T Éric Tabarly (1931–1998), sailor Sylvie Tellier (born 1978), model (Miss France 2002) Roger Tessier (born 1939), composer Jérémy Toulalan (born 1983), football player Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890), painter
V Jules Verne, science fiction writer, traveller, lived in Nantes from birth to 1847 then went to Paris and shortly after returned to Nantes, where he stayed until July 1848 Sandrine Voillet, art historian and television presenter Louis Vuillemin (1879–1929), composer
W Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), politician
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