- David Marty
David Marty (born 30 October, 1982 in Perpignan) is a French rugby union footballer. He currently plays for USA Perpignan in the elite level of French rugby, the Top 14 club competition. Marty has also played for France, having played in the 2005 and 2006 Six Nations. He has been capped six times in total for France. David was first called up to the French rugby team during the 2005 Six Nations, …
- Perry Freshwater
Perry Thomas Freshwater (born 27 July 1973 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an English rugby union footballer. He is a loosehead prop and occasional hooker. He started playing rugby union as a five year old for the Wellington club and later played for New Zealand Schoolboys against Welsh Schoolboys in Christchurch in 1990. He also played for the New Zealand U19 and U21 teams before deciding to spend a year in England playing for Leicester Tigers.
- Nicolas Mas
Nicolas Mas (born May 25 1980 in Perpignan, France) is a French rugby union footballer, who currently plays for the USA Perpignan club in the Top 14 French premiership. His usual position is at prop. He also plays for the French national team. Perpignan made it to the final of the 2002-03 Heineken Cup, but went down to fellow French club Stade Toulousain. Mas made his international debut in a match against the All Blacks on June 28 2003.
- Thomas Lièvremont
Thomas Lièvremont is a French rugby union. Lièvremont was born in Perpignan. He currently plays for Biarritz Olympique in the top division of French rugby, the Top 14. His usual position is as a number eight. He was a part of the Biarritz team that won the 2005-06 Top 14, and runners-up of the 2005-06 Heineken Cup. He has also played for the France national team. He made his international debut for France in a 1996 match against Wales, …
- Jo Maso
Jo Maso (born 27 December 1944 in Perpignan, France) is a former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played for Narbonne, Toulonnais, Perpignan and France, gaining 25 caps. His alternative position was. He is now the manager for the French national team and was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2003. Maso started his rugby career as a rugby league player for XIII Catalan, being the son of the French rugby league internationalist Jep Maso.
- Hyacinthe Rigaud
Hyacinthe Rigaud (Hiacint Riagau was a French painter of catalan origin. He was born Jacint Rigau i Ros -though in many enciclopaedias is "re-christened" with the name of Híacint Francesc Honrat Mathias Pere Martyr Andreu Joan Rigau- in Perpignan, which became French (Treaty of the Pyrenees) a short time after his birth (November 7 1659). In 1682, he was awarded the Prix de Rome.
- Andy Titterrell
Andrew James Titterrell (born 10 January 1981 in Dartford) is a rugby union player who plays at hooker for Sale and England. He is reportedly one of the fittest players in the England squad.
- Dan Luger
Daniel Darko Luger MBE (born January 11, 1975) is an English rugby union player who plays on the wing. Luger played in France for Perpignan in the 2004-5 season. In 2006 he is taking time out of full time rugby, though he is still involved with the England Sevens Squad. He has previously played for Richmond, Orrell, Saracens and Harlequins. He is almost equally well-known for his pace and his susceptibility to injuries.
- Chris White
Chris White (born 16 July, 1967) is a English international rugby union referee. He is one of England's top rugby referees and has refereed at two Rugby World Cups and will be at the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. He started refereeing at 17 years of age and joined the Gloucester Referees Society in 1990. White was one of 16 referees appointed to the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales. He was also again selected as a referee at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
- Raphaël Ibañez
Raphaël Ibañez is a French rugby union footballer. He is a, and is currently captain of the France national team. Ibañez began his playing career in his home town of Dax before moving to Perpignan and Castres. He made his debut against Wales in 1996 and went on to win 72 caps for his country, including 27 as captain. He won successive Grand Slams with France in 1997 and 1998 and led them to the World Cup Final in 1999.
- Tim Stimpson
Tim Richard George Stimpson (born 10 September 1973 in Liverpool) is a rugby union international full back who is now semi-retired from the game, and is player-coach for 2nd division team Nuneaton R.F.C. in Warwickshire. During his career he played for Wakefield, West Hartlepool, Newcastle Falcons, Leicester Tigers, Perpignan and Leeds Tykes, England and the British Lions.
- Robert Brasillach
Robert Brasillach was a French pro-Nazi Germany author in the Vichy France who was executed for collaboration. Born in Perpignan, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure and then became a novelist and literary critic for the "Action Française" of Charles Maurras. After the 6 February 1934 crisis in the Place de la Concorde, Brasillach openly supported fascism. After the fall of France, he became an editor of "Je suis partout", an antisemitic paper, …
- Scott Robertson
Scott Robertson (born 21 August 1974) is a rugby union footballer, who plays Flanker for Perpignan. He has previously played for Canterbury Crusaders and New Zealand.
- André Marty
André Marty was born in Perpignan, France, on 6 November 1886 and died of lung cancer in Toulouse, France, on 23 November 1956. He was a leading figure in the French Communist Party, the "PCF", for nearly thirty years. He was also: a member of the National Assembly, with some interruptions, from 1924 to 1955; Secretary of Comintern from 1935 to 1944; and Political Commissar of the International Brigades in Spain from 1936 to 1938.
- Jean Meyer
Doctor Jean Meyer Barth is a Mexican historian and author of French origin. Meyer obtained bachelor's and master degrees at the Sorbonne University. He has taught at Sorbonne, Perpignan, the University of Paris and the Colegio de México and Michoacán and Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica. He has done extensive research on the Cristero War and written books on the subject for Cambridge and the Universidad de Guadalajara.
- Carlo Schmid
Carlo Schmid (11 December 1896 in Perpignan, France - 11 December 1979 in Bonn) was a German academic and politician of the social-democratic SPD. Schmid is one of the most important authors of both the German Basic Law as well as the Godesberg Program of the SPD. He was intimately involved in German-French relations and served as "Federal Minister for the Affairs of the Federal Council and States" from 1966 to 1969.
- Jacques Cassini
Jacques Cassini was a French-Italian astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Cassini was born at the Paris Observatory. Admitted at the age of seventeen to membership of the French Academy of Sciences, he was elected in 1696 a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and became "maître des comptes" in 1706. Having succeeded to his father's position at the observatory in 1712, …
- Christian D'Oriola
Christian D'Oriola, born October 3, 1928 in Perpignan, France, was a French fencer. He was World Champion four times (1947, 1949, 1953, and 1954), and twice Olympic Champion (1952, 1956) in the foil individual events. At the 1948 Olympics, at the age of 19, he won a team gold medal and an individual silver medal in foil. At the 1952 Olympics he won gold medals in both the team and individual foil competitions.
- Gustave Fayet
Gustave Fayet was a French painter. His work is close in style to that of Paul Gauguin or Odilon Redon. He learnt to draw and paint with his father, Gabriel Fayet, and his uncle Léon Fayet, who both admired pre-impressionnist painters such as Adolphe Monticelli or Camille Corot. Gustave Fayet's style is very personal, far from impressionism or academic work, rather more symbolism. Gustave Fayet was also an art collector, he owned works by Degas, Manet, …
- Chris Beattie
Chris Beattie (born 26 August, 1975) in Ipswich, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player.
- André Douzet
André Douzet is a French researcher and author, currently living near Perpignan, France.
- John Mack
John Mack was a renowned American oboist. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Mack attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with Marcel Tabuteau, the longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His first professional experience was with the Sadler Wells Ballet's American tour in 1951-1952. Afterwards he was appointed principal oboist of the New Orleans Symphony, …
- Jean-Daniel Padovani
Jean-Daniel Padovani (born August 4, 1984 in Perpignan) is a French goalkeeper currently playing for Angers SCO.
- Félix Candela
Félix Candela was a Mexican architect and engineer. He worked from the 1930s to the 1960s, and he accomplished a great deal for Mexican architecture. Candela’s major contribution to structural engineering was the development of thin shells made out of reinforced concrete. He worked very hard during his life time to prove the real nature and potential reinforced concrete had in structural engineering.
- Julien Valero
Julien Valero (born February 23, 1984 in Perpignan) is a French-Spanish football (soccer) striker. He currently plays for SM Caen.
- Sandrine Erdely-Sayo
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, born October 11, 1968, in Perpignan, France, is a Jewish pianist. She was a child prodigy who could play Bach and read music before knowing how to read a book.
- Eric Ripert
Eric Ripert , executive chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin in New York, serves as consulting chef for AZUR by Le Bernardin and works closely with Eric Wadlund , Chef de Cuisine at the La Quinta Resort & Spa restaurant. Wadlund, the son of a Wisconsin baker, began his culinary career when at 4 years of age he whipped up his first batch of doughnuts. His formal training began when he was 18 at the acclaimed Madison Club in Wisconsin under Chef Jerry Zackerski.
- Zawisza Czarny
Zawisza Czarny z Garbowa ("Zawisza the Black of Garbów", also known as The Black Knight, Sulima Coat of Arms, was a famous Polish mediæval knight and diplomat. Zawisza Czarny was a famous Polish knight, winner of many tournaments, a symbol of a knight and a model of all knightly virtues. His father was Biernat from Garbów, mother is unknown. His nickname certainly comes from his appearance and not like later believed from a black armor, …
- Antonin Mercié
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter, was born in Toulouse. He entered the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the Grand Prix de Rome. His first great popular successes were the "David" and "Gloria Victis", which was shown and received the Medal of Honour of the Paris Salon. The bronze was subsequently placed in the Square Montholon.
- John I of Aragon
John I (December 27, 1350 - May 19, 1396), called the Hunter ("Juan el Cazador" in Castilian and "Joan el Descurat" in Catalan) or the Lover of Elegance ("el Amador de la gentileza" in Castilian and "l'Amador de la Gentilesa" in Catalan), was the King of Aragon from 1387 to his death. He was the eldest son of Peter IV and his third wife, Eleanor, who was the daughter of Peter II of Sicily.
- Andrée Borrel
Andrée Raymonde Borrel was a French heroine of World War II. Andrée Borrel was born into a working-class family at Natzwiller, Bas-Rhin, in the suburbs of Paris, growing up an active girl who liked hiking and most other outdoor activities. At the age of fourteen she left school to work in a bakery shop but when World War II broke out, …
- Boris Skossyreff
Boris Skossyreff was a presumably Russian adventurer who attempted to seize power in the European nation of Andorra during the early 1930s. Russian sources give his name in Cyrillic as Борис Скосырев, for which the modern English transliteration of his name would be Skosyrev. In January 1919 a Boris Skossyreff - aged 22 - a former translator for the Japanese Military Mission, …
- Profiat Duran
Profiat Duran (Hebrew: פרופייט דוראן), also known as Efodi (האפודי); also known as Isaac ben Moses ha-Levi; was a philosopher, grammarian, and controversialist in the 14th century. It is not known whether he was born at Perpignan, where he lived for some years, or in a town of Catalonia. In his youth he attended a Talmudic school in Germany for a short time, …
- Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy
Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy was a French harpsichordist and organist. His birthplace is unknown; he died in Perpignan. His life before 1690 is unknown; he was probably a pupil of Nicolas Lebègue and served as titular organist of the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church in Paris. He was considered an expert in organ building and at some point in life settled in Perpignan where he played the organ of the Saint-Jean Baptiste cathedral ("Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste").
- Étienne Terrus
Étienne Terrus was a Catalan landscaper from Roussillon When he was 17 years old, he went studying to Paris but soon after, he went back to Elna, where he made most of his works. He used to walk with his easel and he is considered one of the fauvisme precursor. During his life, he was very appreciated by artists like George-Daniel de Monfreid, André Derain or Henri Matisse, who was his penfriend from 1905 to 1917.
- Bongoron
Bongoron was a French Jewish astronomer; he lived at Perpignan in the middle of the fourteenth century. The name "Bongorn" or "Bonjorn" is the Provençal equivalent of the Hebrew name "Yom-Ṭob," the Provençal Jews often prefixing to their own names those of their fathers. Judah Mosconi, in his supercommentary on Ibn Ezra, mentions Bongoron as one of the greatest astronomers of that time.
- Anne Primout
Anne Primout was for almost 3 years the doyenne of France from April 18, 2002 (following the passing of Germaine Haye) until her own death. She was born as Angèle Dupont on October 5, 1890 in the French colony of Algeria. She died, aged 114 years 172 days, in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales departement, France. France's oldest person at the time of her death, and among the world's oldest people, Anne's age was officially verified only posthumously, …
- Claude Charles Fauriel
Claude Charles Fauriel (October 21, 1772 - July 15, 1844) was a French historian, philologist and critic.
- Abraham Bedersi
Abraham Bedersi was Provençal Jewish poet; he was born at Béziers (whence his surname "Bedersi", or native of Béziers). The dates of his birth and death have not been ascertained. An elegy which he composed during his youth, upon the "Confiscation of the Books of the Law", is supposed by some scholars to refer to the burning of the "Talmud" in Paris about the year 1242; by others, to the confiscation of the Talmud in Aragon in 1264, …
- Francesc Fontanella
Francesc Fontanella 1622-1685? was a Catalan poet, dramatist, and priest. He studied law and was granted a degree in Civil and Canon law in 1641. Until 1652 he lived a courtesan life in Barcelona and began writing love poetry and wrote his two dramatic works: "Tragicomèdia d'Amor, Firmesa i Porfia" (1642) and "Lo desengany" (1651). Both pieces are allegorical with some pastoral elements.