List of sons and daughters of the city of Bordeaux
The following list contains personalities born in Bordeaux , listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Bordeaux
Until 1750
- Paulinus von Nola (~ 354–431), bishop and writer
- Austindus (~ 1000–1068), Archbishop of Auch
- Richard II (1367–1400), King of England
- Paul de la Barthe, seigneur de Thermes (1482–1562), military leader and marshal of France
- Isaac de La Peyrère (1596–1676), diplomat
- Jean-Joseph Surin (1600–1665), Jesuit and mystic
- François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (1620–1670), lawyer, president of the government, neo-Latin author and member of the Académie française
- Henri de Nesmond (1644–1727), Archbishop of Toulouse and member of the Académie française
- Joseph-François Lafitau (1681–1746), Jesuit, ethnologist and missionary
- Jean-Baptiste Barrière (1707–1747), cellist and composer
- Joseph Black (1728–1799), Scottish physicist and chemist
- Pierre Gaviniès (1728–1800), violinist and composer
- Raymond de Sèze (1748–1828), lawyer
- Friedrich Metzler (1749–1825), German banker and patron
1751 to 1800
- Armand Gensonné (1758–1793), politician
- Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758–1836), painter
- Pierre-Jean Garat (1762–1823), singer
- Bernard Sarrette (1765–1858), conductor and music teacher
- Martin Bossange (1766–1865), bookseller
- Jean-Jacques Magendie (1766–1835), officer
- Joseph Henri Joachim Lainé (1768–1835), statesman
- Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty (1768–1815), General
- Jean Boudet (1769-1809), general
- Louis-Marie-Charles Mercier Dupaty (1771–1825), sculptor
- Jean Marie Thérèse Doazan (1774–1839), Prefect of the Rhin-et-Moselle Department
- Pierre Rode (1774-1830), violinist
- Jean-Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778–1832), statesman and minister of the interior
- François Magendie (1783–1855), physiologist
- Jean Alaux (1786–1864), painter
- Jacques-Henri Wustenberg (1790–1865), merchant
- Pierre-Bienvenu Noailles (1793–1861), priest
- Pierre Armand Dufau (1795–1877), publicist and economist
- Olinde Rodrigues (1795–1851), mathematician, banker and social reformer
- Armand-Jacques-Achille Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1796-1854), statesman and military
- Émile Pereire (1800–1875), banker and industrialist
1801 to 1850
- Edouard Bénazet (1801–1867), German entrepreneur
- Charles Fuchs (1803–1874), lithographer and photographer
- Isaac Pereire (1806–1880), banker and industrialist
- Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (1807–1876), painter
- Auguste Nicolas (1807–1888), lawyer and author
- Oscar Gué (1809–1877), history and genre painter
- Bernard Jabouin (1810–1889) sculptor
- Louis Eduard Ichon (1811–1890), German entrepreneur
- Henri Justamant (1815–1890), dancer, choreographer and ballet master
- Edmond Boulbon (1817–1883), Trappist and Premonstratensian Abbot
- Armand Heine (1818-1883), banker
- Thelma Herdlitz (1818-1896), stage actress
- Charles Lévêque (1818–1900), philosopher
- Jean Baptiste Fauvelet (1819–1883), genre painter, lithographer and art teacher
- Michael Heine (1819–1904), banker and businessman
- Anna Cora Mowatt (1819–1870), American author, playwright, and actress
- Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), animal painter
- Daniel Iffla (1825–1907), stock market speculator and patron
- Eugénie de Santa-Coloma (1827–1895), singer and composer
- André Henri Dargelas (1828–1906), genre painter
- Hortense Schneider (1833–1920), operetta diva
- Charles Lamoureux (1834–1899), conductor and violinist
- Édouard Colonne (1838–1910), conductor
- Georges Rayet (1839-1906), astronomer
- Odilon Redon (1840-1916), painter
- Catulle Mendès (1841–1909), writer and poet
- Léon Valade (1841-1883), writer
- Franz Schrader (1844–1924), geographer, mountaineer, cartographer and painter
- Paul Taffanel (1844–1908), flautist and composer
- François-Adolphe Grison (1845–1914), landscape, portrait and genre painter
- Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930), playwright and novelist
1851 to 1900
- Alexandre Darracq (1855–1931), entrepreneur
- Jean Fernand-Lafargue (1856–1903), writer
- Maurice Renaud (1861–1933), singer
- Léopold Lafleurance (1865–1953), flautist and university professor
- André Hekking (1866–1925), cellist
- Eugène Goossens (1867–1958), conductor and violinist
- Sylvain Eugène Raynal (1867–1939), military officer
- Charles Tournemire (1870–1939), organist and composer
- Albert Sarraut (1872–1962), lawyer and politician
- Georges Cassignard (1873-1893), track cyclist
- Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873–1954), composer
- Albert Marquet (1875–1947), painter
- Georges Barrère (1876–1944), flautist
- Raoul Laparra (1876–1943), composer
- Gustave Samazeuilh (1877–1967), composer and music critic
- Joseph-Ermend Bonnal (1880–1944), composer and organist
- Jacques Thibaud (1880–1953), violinist
- Julien-Fernand Vaubourgoin (1880–1952), organist, composer and music teacher
- Gabriel Petisné (1881–1931), civil servant
- Gunnar Gundersen (1882–1943), Australian mathematician, university professor and chess player
- Fernand Gonder (1883–1969), track and field athlete
- Joseph Vuillemin (1883–1963), Chief of Staff of the Air Force
- Joseph Bonnet (1884–1944), organist, composer and music teacher
- Adrien Marquet (1884–1955), Mayor, Minister of State and Minister of the Interior
- André Lhote (1885–1962), painter, sculptor, art theorist and teacher
- Emmanuel Sougez (1889–1972), photographer and author
- Pierre Chareau (1883–1950), architect, interior designer and musician
- François Mauriac (1885–1970), writer
- François Blanchy (1886–1960), tennis player
- Jacques Rivière (1886–1925), writer
- Jean Samazeuilh (1891-1965), tennis player
- Edy Legrand (1892–1970), painter
- Robert Gaden (1893–1985), violinist
- Louis Beydts (1895–1953), composer
- Georges Capdeville (1899–1991), football referee
- Jean Piaubert (1900–2002), painter and graphic artist
1901 to 1950
- Henri Sauguet (1901–1989), composer
- Jacques Faure (1904–1988), skier
- Louis-Jean Guyot (1905–1988), Archbishop of Toulouse
- Jules Ladoumègue (1906–1973), track and field athlete
- Jean Orieux (1907–1990), writer
- Marc Augier (1908–1990), writer, adventurer and alpinist
- Jean Anouilh (1910-1987), author
- Jean Cayrol (1911–2005), poet, essayist and novelist
- Jéhan Buhan (1912–1999), foil fencer
- Jacques Ellul (1912–1994), sociologist and theologian
- Pierre Skawinski (1912–2009), track and field athlete
- René Clément (1913–1996), film director
- Danielle Darrieux (1917–2017), film and stage actress
- Daniel Cordier (* 1920), resistance fighter and art dealer
- Roger Cayrel (* 1925), astronomer
- Gérard Calvet (1927–2008), monastery founder and abbot
- Jean Aubain (1928–2015), composer and music teacher
- Jean-Michel Damase (1928–2013), pianist and composer
- Édouard Molinaro (1928–2013), director and screenwriter
- Gérard Sendrey (born 1928), administrative officer
- Bob Denard (1929–2007), French-Comorian mercenary leader
- Jean-Joseph Sanfourche (1929-2010), painter
- Maurice Verdeun (1929–2014), track cyclist
- Georges Descrières (1930–2013), actor
- Jean-Jacques Sempé (* 1932), cartoonist
- Paul Bracq (* 1933), automobile designer
- René-Jean Jacquet (1933–1993), football player
- Philippe Capdenat (* 1934), composer and music teacher
- Geneviève Fontanel (1936–2018), theater and film actress
- Philippe Sollers (* 1936), writer
- Boris Cyrulnik (* 1937), neurologist, psychiatrist and ethologist
- Yves Daudet (* 1940), lawyer
- Johannes von Charioupolis (* 1942), exarch of the Orthodox communities of Russian tradition in Western Europe
- Serge Lama (* 1943), chanson singer and songwriter
- Jean-Louis Tauran (1943–2018), Cardinal to the Curia
- Ric Grech (1946–1990), rock musician
- Roger Mirmont (born 1946), actor
- Alain Couderc (1947–2020), racing car driver
- Bernard Ardura (* 1948), religious and church historian
From 1951
- Jean-Marie Laclavetine (* 1954), editor, writer and translator
- Jean Teulère (* 1954), eventing rider
- Jean-François Domergue (* 1957), football player and coach
- Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin (* 1958), fencer
- Francis Castaing (* 1959), racing cyclist
- Gérald Caussé (born 1963), Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Marcel Escure (* 1963), diplomat
- Loïc Courteau (* 1964), tennis player and coach
- José Cubero Sánchez (1964–1985), Spanish torero
- Bruno Marie-Rose (* 1965), athlete
- Pierre Palmade (* 1968), actor and comedian
- Catherine Delaunay (* 1969), jazz musician
- Mélanie Coste (* 1976), porn actress
- Isha Sesay (* 1976), American television journalist
- Boris Sanson (* 1980), fencer
- Florent Serra (* 1981), tennis player
- Grégory Bourdy (* 1982), professional golfer
- Kamel Chafni (* 1982), soccer player
- Marc Planus (* 1982), football player
- Lucenzo (* 1983), Portuguese rapper and singer
- Fabien Patanchon (* 1983), racing cyclist
- Jonathan Ayité (born 1985), football player
- Yannick Marie (* 1985), track and road cyclist
- Benoît Trémoulinas (* 1985), football player
- SoKo (* 1985), singer and actress
- Pierre Ducasse (* 1987), football player
- Floyd Ayité (* 1988), French-Togolese football player
- Amath M'Baye (born 1989), basketball player
- Lou de Laâge (born 1990), actress
- Maroussia Paré (* 1996), sprinter
- Solène Ndama (* 1998), heptathlete and hurdler