List of sons and daughters of the city of Lille

The following list contains personalities born in Lille , listed chronologically by year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Lille

Isabella of Hainaut

Louis Léon César Faidherbe

Charles de Gaulle

Philippe Noiret

Étienne Bacrot

Anaïs Demoustier

Alanus from Insulis (~ 1120–1202), scholastic, poet and Cistercian monk
Isabella of Hainaut (1170–1190), Queen of France
Matthias de L'Obel (1538-1616), botanist
Wallerant Vaillant (1623–1677), Dutch painter
Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730–1793), German doctor and botanist
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736–1798), writer and publisher
Pascal-François-Joseph Gossellin (1751–1830), archaeologist
Augustin Dumon-Dumortier (1791–1852), Belgian industrialist, diplomat and President of the Senate

Alphonse Gratry (1805–1872), Catholic religious teacher and priest
Félicien de Saulcy (1807–1890), archaeologist, orientalist and numismatist
Auguste-Joseph Franchomme (1808–1884), cellist and composer
Jules Gailhabaud (1810–1888), art historian
Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889), General
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819–1899), antique collector
Édouard Lalo (1823-1892), composer
Victor Delannoy (1825–1887), composer, violinist and music teacher
Paul Gachet (1828–1909), doctor
Philibert Vrau (1829–1905), organizer of the first International Eucharistic Congress
Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran (1837–1917), painter
Alfred Agache (1843–1915), painter

Charles Barrois (1851–1939), geologist and paleontologist
George Edward Bonsor Saint-Martin (1855–1930), painter and archaeologist
Albert Samain (1858–1900), poet
Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914), artist
Eugène Deully (1860–1933), painter
Charles Doudelet (1861–1938), painter, printmaker and illustrator
Émile Bernard (1868–1941), painter, printmaker, art theorist and novelist
Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Laurent Riboulet (1871–1960), tennis player
Charles Quef (1873–1931), organist and composer
Georges Lefèbvre (1874–1959), historian
René Vierne (1878–1918), composer and organist
Gabriel Grovlez (1879–1944), conductor and composer
Michel d'Herbigny (1880–1957), orientalist and secret bishop
René Tartara (1881–1922), swimmer and water polo player
Céliny Chailley-Richez (1884–1973), pianist and music teacher
Achille Liénart (1884–1973), Bishop of Lille
Maurice Garçon (1889–1967), writer, lawyer and historian
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), general and politician
Roger Salengro (1890–1936), politician
Julien Duvivier (1896–1967), author and director
Henri Dulieux (1897–1982), fencer
Renée Adorée (1898–1933), actress
Yves Béquignon (1899–1990), archaeologist and epigraphist
Pierre Chantraine (1899–1974), Graecist
Pierre Coquelin de Lisle (1900–1980), marksman

Gaston Waringhien (1901–1991), linguist and historian of religion
Jean Dieudonné (1906–1992), mathematician
Marcel Bernard (1914–1994), tennis player
Jean Dubuisson (1914–2011), architect
Madeleine Damerment (1917–1944), agent in the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Jean Dewasne (1921–1999), painter, sculptor and author
Marceau Somerlinck (1922-2005), football player
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (* 1923), mathematician and theoretical physicist
Alain Decaux (1925–2016), historian and radio presenter
Philippe Noiret (1930–2006), actor
Alain Abbott (* 1938), accordion player and composer
Isabelle Aubret (born 1938), singer
Patrick Leclercq (* 1938), Prime Minister of the Principality of Monaco
Jean-Pierre Wallez (* 1939), violinist and music teacher
Gilles Béhat (* 1949), director