- Frotharius, Archbishop Of Bordeaux
Frotharius, Frotar, or Frotaire was the Archbishop of Bordeaux and then of Bourges in the ninth century. In 870, Viking raids forced him to abandon Bordeaux. Frotharius was related to the Counts of Toulouse and Rouergue. By maintaining control of the abbeys of Brioude and Beaulieu, he probably preserved his family's influence in southern Gaul during the ascendancy of Bernard Plantapilosa.
- Gombald, Archbishop Of Bordeaux
Gundobald or Gombald (died after 998) was the Archbishop of Bordeaux from 989 to his death. He was the "episcopus Gasconum", bishop of the Gascons, from 978, holding the episcopal dignity in all the Gascon sees. He was the third son of Sancho IV of Gascony and thus a brother of Sancho V and William II, successive dukes of Gascony. In 977, he refounded the monastery of La Réole.
- Victor Segalen
Victor Segalen (January 14, 1878 - May 21, 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist, literary critic. He was born in Brest. He studied naval medicine in Bordeaux. He traveled and lived in Polynesia (1903-1905) and China (1909-1914 and 1917). He died by accident in a forest in Huelgoat, France ('under mysterious circumstances' and reputedly with an open copy of 'Hamlet' by his side).
- Henry Bordeaux
Henri Bordeaux was a French writer and lawyer.
- Michel Rolland
Michel Rolland "(born December 24, 1947 in Libourne, France)" is an influential Bordeaux-based oenologist, with hundreds of clients across 13 countries and influencing wine style around the world. "It is his consultancies outside France that have set him apart from all but a handful of his countrymen." His signature style, which he helps wineries achieve, is fruit-heavy and oak-influenced, a preference shared by influential critic Robert Parker.
- Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers (born Philippe Joyaux 28 November 1936, Bordeaux, France) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the "avant garde" journal "Tel Quel" published by Seuil which ran until 1982. In 1982 Sollers then created the journal L'Infini published by Denoel which was later published under the same title by Gallimard for whom Sollers also directs the series.
- Fernando Cavenaghi
Fernando Ezequiel Cavenaghi (born September 21 1983 in O'Brien, Buenos Aires Province is an Argentine football player who currently plays for Girondins de Bordeaux. He started playing for Club Atlético River Plate (the team that produced Pablo Aimar and Hernán Crespo among others). He is rated by Gianfranco Zola as the only Argentine he would pay to see play. Cavenaghi made his debut in the 2000/2001 season for in which he scored 1 goal in 5 appearances.
- Jean Lacouture
Jean Lacouture (born June 9, 1921 in Bordeaux, France) is a journalist, historian and author. He is particularly famous for his biographies.
- Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Papin (born November 5, 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) is a French former football player and now manager. Between 2006 and 2007 he was the manager of French club RC Strasbourg, but despite leading the club to promotion to Ligue 1, he resigned, citing internal relationship problems. Papin scored 30 goals for France in 54 matches. He played at the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico, where France finished third, and at the 1992 European Championships in Sweden.
- Pantxi Sirieix
Pantxi Sirieix (born October 7, 1980 in Bordeaux) is a French football (soccer) midfielder. He currently plays for Toulouse FC.
- Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault (born 5 March 1949 ) is a French businessman. He is the 7th richest person in the world and France's richest person with an estimated net worth of $26 billion US dollars , according to a Forbes report in March 2007. [1] Bernard Arnault is a native of Roubaix , and graduated with an engineering degree from the Acole Polytechnique in 1971 (X1969). In 2007, Arnault was listed among Time Magazine 's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
- David Bellion
David Bellion (born 27 November 1982 in Paris, France) is a French footballer who currently plays for Bordeaux.
- François de Sourdis
François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis was the Archbishop of Bordeaux and founder of the Irish College there in 1603. He was born October 25, 1574 in Poitou, the eldest son of François d'Escoubleau and Isabeau Babou de la Bourdasière. His father was seigneur of Jouy, Aunau and Montdoubleau, marquis d'Alluye, and governor of Chartres, and François himself held the title of Count of La Chapelle. As the eldest son, he was not initially destined for a career in the church.
- Franck Jurietti
Franck Jurietti (born on March 30 1975) is a French football defender, who has been playing for the club of Bordeaux since 2003.
- Julien Faubert
Julien Faubert is a French football player who plays as a midfielder for West Ham United. Faubert made his debut for the French national team on August 16, 2006, against Bosnia and Herzegovina. He marked his first match by scoring in the final minute of the game to ensure France won 2-1. On Saturday June 23, 2007, it was reported in French sports newspaper L'Équipe that Faubert was on the verge of a €6.5 million (£4.3 million) transfer to Rangers.
- Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (March 7, 1915-November 10, 2000) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. Jacques Chaban-Delmas was born Jacques Delmas; in the resistance underground, his final pseudonym was "Chaban", and, after World War II, he formally changed his name to "Chaban-Delmas". General of a brigade in the resistance, he took part in the Parisian insurrection of August 1944.
- Marc Planus
Marc Planus (born 7 march, 1982 in Bordeaux) is a French football midfielder, currently playing for FC Girondins de Bordeaux.
- Ausonius
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (ca. 310-395), was a Greco-Roman poet and rhetorician, born at Burdigala (Bordeaux).
- Pierre Ducasse
Pierre Ducasse (born May 7, 1987 in Bordeaux) is a French football midfielder currently playing for FC Girondins de Bordeaux in the French Ligue 1.
- Bertrand Cantat
Bertrand Cantat is a French singer and songwriter. He is the leader of the rock band Noir Désir. At the helm of Noir Désir, he became one of the most prominent figures of French music in the 90s. His left leaning political views saw him take position against globalisation, desertification of urban areas in Bordeaux and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He married Kristina Rady in 1997. Bertrand is the father of 2 children with Kristina.
- Bruno Cheyrou
Bruno Cheyrou (born May 5, 1978 in Suresnes, France) is a professional football player for Rennes of the Ligue 1.
- Albert Riera
Albert Riera Ortega (born April 15, 1982 in Manacor) is a Spanish footballer who currently plays for RCD Espanyol. Riera, a left sided midfielder, started his career in 2000 with RCD Mallorca, winning a Copa del Rey medal in 2003. In the summer of 2003 he moved to Bordeaux, where he was a first team regular for two seasons. In 2005 he moved to RCD Espanyol, but was unable to establish himself in the first team, and in January 2006 he moved on loan to Manchester City, …
- Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse (pseudonym of Alexis Léger, also Alexis Saint-Legér Léger was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."
- Philippine de Rothschild
Baroness Philippine Pascale de Rothschild is the owner of the French winery Chateau Mouton-Rothschild. She also has acted under the stage name "Philippine Pascale". daughter of the famous vintner, Baron Philippe de Rothschild. When she was just ten she witnessed the Gestapo arrest her mother, Elisabeth de Rothschild, who later died at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
- Mathieu Valverde
Mathieu Valverde is a French footballer who plays goalkeeper for Bordeaux. After the departure of second-choice keeper Frédéric Roux, Valverde was given the #1 shirt and will serve as understudy to French international Ulrich Ramé. While Roux was at the club, Valverde made only two league appearances in three years.
- Anne-Sophie Lapix
Anne-Sophie Lapix is a French journalist and television presenter. She is the current host of "Zone Interdite" and "12:50" on M6, and will move to TF1 in September 2006. After gaining a degree from the IEP of Bordeaux, Lapix has worked for Bloomberg and La Chaîne Info. She has two children and is considered somewhat a sex symbol in her country, having been voted the 55th most sexy women in the world by the readers of FHM France.
- Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon was a Symbolist painter and printmaker, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. At age 15, he began formal study in drawing but on the insistence of his father he switched to architecture. His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris’ École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, …
- Emile Peynaud
Émile Peynaud was a notable French oenologist who revolutionized Bordeaux winemaking in the latter half of the 20th century. As a lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, author of nearly three hundred research papers, and consultant to over one hundred wineries in Bordeaux and around the globe, he had a profound impact on the world of wine.
- Michel Pavon
Michel Pavón is a former French football midfielder. He is currently working at FC Girondins de Bordeaux. The former midfielder and captain of Bordeaux was known as a rough player during his footballer career. He played his first match on November 7th, 1986 with Toulouse FC against Paris Saint-Germain. On October 24th 2003 Michel Pavón became head coach at FC Girondins de Bordeaux to replace Élie Baup, who whad been fired.
- Florent Serra
Florent Serra (Born February 28, 1981 in Bordeaux, France), is a French male tennis player. In January 2006, he won his second ATP tour title in Adelaide, Australia, at the Next Generation Adelaide International. He defeated Michael Llodra,Tommy Robredo, Jarkko Nieminen, and Dominik Hrbaty on the way to the final, where he defeated Xavier Malisse 6-3,6-4. As of June 26, 2006, he is ranked #36 in the world, the highest he has ever been ranked.
- Albert Frère
Albert Frère is a Belgian businessman and the richest man in Belgium. Frère grew up as a son of a nail merchant and helped in the business since an early age. His father died when Frère was 17; Frère had to leave school and run the family business by himself. At the age of 30, he started investing in Belgian steel factories and by the end of the 1970s he practically controlled the whole steel industry in the region of Charleroi.
- Marco Caneira
Marco António Simões Caneira in Sintra, Portugal, (pron.), is an international Portuguese football defender. He is on loan to Sporting from Valencia. He has previously played for Sporting, SL Benfica, Bordeaux, Valencia, and other teams. He was selected for the national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- David Sommeil
David Sommeil is a French footballer who plays as a defender for English Football League Championship club Sheffield United.
- Pierre Palmade
Pierre Palmade is a French actor and comedian. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began his career in stand-up comedy, and featured in two shows with Michèle Laroque more recently. The shows were called "Ils s'aiment" and "Ils se sont aimés." He sometimes writes for other artists, for example, Muriel Robin. He has done dubbing for the films, "Pédale douce" and "Pédale dure". He is known for playing unpleasant characters in his sketches.
- Lewis Trondheim
Lewis Trondheim is an extremely prolific French cartoonist and one of the founders, in 1990, of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic "La Mouche" and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons. He explained his choice of pseudonym after the Norwegian city of Trondheim as follows: "As a last name I wanted to use a city's name, but Lewis Bordeaux or Lewis Toulouse didn't sound so good.
- Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 - October 3, 1987) was a French dramatist.
- Pierre Molinier
Pierre Molinier (April 13, 1900 - March 3, 1976) was a painter, photographer and "maker of objects". He was born in Agen (France) and lived his life in Bordeaux (France). He began his career by painting landscapes, but his work turned towards a fetishistic eroticism early on. Molinier began to take photographs at the age of 18. When Molinier's sister died in 1918, he had sex with her corpse when he was left alone to photograph it. "'Even dead, she was beautiful.
- Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet (born May 5, 1943, Redondela (Galicia) is a Spanish journalist and writer. He is the editor-in-chief of "Le Monde diplomatique" since 1991. An editorial published by Ramonet on December 1997 resulted in the launching of ATTAC. In addition, Ramonet is one of the founders of the NGO Media Watch Global, and currently he is president of this organization.
- Juan Pablo Francia
Juan Pablo Francia is an Argentine football striker. He was born on December 3 1984, in the city of San Francisco in the Córdoba Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Bordeaux of Ligue 1 in France. Francia played his first games for Sportivo Belgrano in the regional leagues in Córdoba.
- Serge Lama
Serge Lama (b. February 11 1943 in Bordeaux) is a French singer. His most famous song is "Je suis malade".