- male, deceased (1264)
- The Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais (Vincentius Bellovacensis) ("ca" 1190 - 1264?) wrote the Speculum Maius, the main encyclopedia that was...
- male
- Villard de Honnecourt lived in 13th century France and may have been an itinerant master-builder of Picardy in northern France. His fame rests...
- male, deceased (1572)
- Petrus Ramus, or Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist, logician, and educational reformer, was born at the village of Cuts in Picardy, a member of a...
- female, deceased (1285)
- Marie de Coucy (c. 1218 - 1285) was the daughter of Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy and his third wife Marie de Montmirel (c. 1184 - 1267). She was...
- male, deceased (1453)
- Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400 - July 20, 1453), French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Picardy. In 1436 and later he held the office...
- female, deceased (1816)
- Saint Julie Billiart, foundress, and first Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, was born July 12, 1751, at...
- male
- Radbertus Paschasius or Saint Paschasius (c. 790 - 865) was a French Benedictine theologian and [[saint]
- male, deceased (1523)
- Franz von Sickingen was a German knight, one of the most notable figures of the first period of the Reformation. He was born at Ebernburg (now Bad...
- male, deceased (1531)
- Gérard Cauvin was the father of the Protestant Reformer John Calvin. Cauvin was a man of hard and severe character, occupied a prominent position a...
- male, deceased (1667)
- Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) was a French cartographer, wrongly termed by some the creator of French geography. He was born of an old Picardy family...
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