- Hellé Nice
Hellé Nice (b. Mariette Hélène Delangle 15 December, 1900 in Aunay-sous-Auneau, Eure-et-Loir, France; d. 1 October, 1984 in Nice, France) was a French model, dancer, and a Grand Prix motor racing driver.
- Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. Alba rose to prominence with the television series Dark Angel, then expanding her résumé to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy. Alba appears frequently on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted AskMen.com's number one on their list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007.
- Margaret Morse Nice
Margaret Morse Nice (December 6, 1883 - June 26, 1974) was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the sparrow and was author of "Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow" (1937). Nice was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1906 and M.A. in biology from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1915.
- Joe Nice
Joe Nice is a 30-year-old Baltimore Dubstep DJ. The most famous American DJ playing Dubstep, Nice founded New York's irregular Dub War club night, which has hosted performances by prominent British Dubstep artists such as Hatcha, Youngsta, Kode9, Mala, and Loefah. He performs regularly in New York, London (including at scene pillar DMZ), and elsewhere. He first heard Dubstep in 2002, at the Baltimore venue Starscape, and began playing it in 2003.
- Harry Nice
Harry Whinna Nice (December 5, 1877 - February 25, 1941), a member of the United States Republican Party, was the 50<sup>th</sup> Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1935 to 1939. Harry Nice was born in Washington D.C., but was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He later attended Baltimore City College, Dickinson College and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1899. He was married to Edna Viola Amos in 1905, with whom he had two sons, Harry Jr, …
- Pete Nice
Pete Nice, also called "Prime Minister Pete Nice" was born Peter J. Nash. Nash is most noted for his role in the hip hop music group 3rd Bass. After graduating from Bishop Ford High School in 1985, Nash went on to Columbia University, where he hosted a hip-hop radio show. That led to the creation of the rap group "3 The Hard Way", …
- Carter Nice
Carter Nice is an American orchestra conductor and music director. For more than two decades, Carter Nice has been music director and conductor at the annual Bear Valley Music Festival in Alpine County, California. Also a guest conductor who has appeared with orchestras around the world, Nice was from 1979 to 1992 the music director of the Sacramento Symphony in Sacramento, California.
- Gary Nice
Gary Nice founded the Buffalo Rapids (now Silverbacks) in 2005. The franchise has since been bought by Dan Robbie and Todd Wier.
- Alexandra Nice
Alexandra Nice (born Aleksandra Groth on October 31, 1976 in Gdynia, Poland) is an adult film star, active in the industry from 1995-2004. Comeback in 2006.
- Chuck Nice
Chuck Nice is a comic and radio personality from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nice was heard on "The Radio Chick", a comedic show formerly on 92.3 Free FM in New York. He is a frequent contributor to VH1’s "Best Week Ever". Chuck performs regularly at the HA! Comedy Club, NYC. He has been featured in a commercial for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. He is also a fan of heavy metal music, and once wrestled an alligator.
- Joi Ito
Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd.
- Christian Estrosi
Christian Estrosi is a French politician and is Secretary of State in charge of the French Overseas, under Michèle Alliot-Marie, minister of the interior. His is also President of the general council for the Alpes-Maritimes "département". He is a supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy. Estrosi is also a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His nickname is "the Motodidact", because he has no diploma.
- Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (September 30 1905 - February 19 1990) was a British film director, renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger which produced a series of classic British films. Powell was born in Bekesbourne, Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and then at Dulwich College.
- Gilles Simon
Gilles Simon is a French professional tennis player. He was born on December 27 1984 in Nice. He turned pro in 2002 and his highest ranking ever, as of 2007 is 38th. In 2006 he reached the final of the Valencia Open. In 2007 he won the Marseille Open, his first ATP Tour title.
- Mark Allen
Mark Allen (born 1957 or 1958) is a triathlete, and as of 2006 he is one of two athletes to have won the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii six times. Allen became a triathlete in 1982, after seeing Julie Moss fall, while leading the Ironman race meters short of the finish line and crawl across after being overtaken. He cites her example as what led him to train for the event. Before his first win in the Ironman in 1989, …
- Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate. He was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the son of a well-beloved physician and 'Medizinalrat', Hermann Hirschfeld. In 1887-1888 he studied in Breslau Philosophy and Philology, then from 1888-1892 Medicine in Strasbourg, Munich, Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1892 he took his doctoral degree. After his study he traveled through the U.S.A. for eight months, …
- Jean Médecin
Jean Médecin was a French lawyer and politician. He was Mayor of Nice, France from 1928 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1965, and the father of Jacques Médecin, whom succeeded him as mayor until 1990.
- Hugo Lloris
Hugo Lloris (born 26 December, 1986 in Nice) is a French football (soccer) goalkeeper. He currently plays for OGC Nice.
- Jacques Peyrat
Jacques Peyrat is a right-wing French politician and lawyer who has been mayor of Nice since 1995 and senator from the Alpes-Maritimes since 1998. Jacques Peyrat came from a military family that settled in Nice in 1946 where he studied law and letters. In 1947 at the age of 16 he joined the RPF (Rassemblement du peuple français) the political party that General de Gaulle created that year. In 1953 Peyrat enlisted in a parachute battalion of the French Foreign Legion.
- Simone Veil
Simone Veil, DBE (born 13 July 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Constitutional Council of France.
- Margaret Wise Brown
Margaret Wise Brown (23 May 1910 - 13 November 1952) was a United States author of children's literature, which include "Goodnight Moon" and "The Runaway Bunny", both illustrated by Clement Hurd. Brown was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and she attended boarding school in 1923 in Switzerland while her parents were in India. She later attended Dana Hall in 1926, where she did well in athletics.
- Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 - October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Vigo was born on April 26, 1905, to Emily Clero and the prominent militant anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, (who adopted the name Miguel Almereyda - an anagram of "y'a la merde", …
- Jean-Louis Beffa
Jean-Louis Beffa (born in 1941, in Nice, France) is a French businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of Saint-Gobain.
- Nicole Farhi
Nicole Farhi (born July 25, 1946) is a French fashion designer and sculptor of Algerian descent who was born in Nice in France and is now based in London. She started her career in Paris doing freelance work, before moving to London in the 1970s to work with Stephen Marks on his French Connection label. Their professional relationship resulted in a personal relationship, and they had a daughter before separating. In 1983, she created her own eponymous fashion label, …
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 - June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified Italy. He has been dubbed the "Hero of the Two Worlds" in tribute to his military expeditions in South America and Europe.
- Camille Pin
Camille Pin is a French tennis player. As of January 15, 2007, she is ranked No. 62 on the WTA Singles Tour. Pin plays right-handed and is 164 cm, or 5' 3¾" tall. Camille's 2006 season was rather successful, for a player ranked lower than the top 100 in the women's tour. After a second-round loss to Serena Williams in the Australian Open, she made 3 ITF tour event finals, taking one of the titles at Lexington.
- David Bellion
David Bellion (born 27 November 1982 in Paris, France) is a French footballer who currently plays for Bordeaux.
- Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe was a prominent French actor. Born in Cannes, as a teenager Philipe took acting lessons before going to Paris to study at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art. At age 19, he made his stage debut at a theater in Nice and the following year his strong performance in the Albert Camus play, "Caligula", brought an invitation to work with the "Théâtre national populaire" (T.N.P.) in Paris and Avignon, whose festival, founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, …
- 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.
- Bradley McGee
Bradley ("Brad") McGee is a professional cyclist from Australia, who started cycling in 1986 at ten years of age. He is a member of Professional cycling Team, Française des Jeux, and also of the Parramatta Cycling Club. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France. His greatest success as a road cyclist has been 1st in the 2003 Prologue of the Tour de France, and holding the race leaders yellow jersey (Maillot jaune) for three days in 2003.
- Pablo Correa
Pablo Correa is currently manager of AS Nancy in Ligue 1. Correa himself, played up front for Nancy with Tony Cascarino and became a hit with the fans. In 2004, Correa got Nancy promoted into Le Championnat after six years in Ligue 2. In 2005, Correa guided Nancy to the Coupe de la Ligue final against Nice. Nancy came back from behind to win 2-1, giving them a place in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup.
- Francis Lai
Francis Lai (born April 26, 1932 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a composer noted for his film scores. While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene. In 1965 he met filmmaker Claude Lelouch and was hired to help write the score for the film, "Un homme et une femme" ("A Man and A Woman"). Released in 1966, the film was a major international success, …
- Lionel Letizi
Lionel Letizi (born May 28, 1973 in Nice, France) is a French professional football goalkeeper currently with OGC Nice, joining the club in the most recent (January 2007) transfer window after being released by Scottish Premier League club Rangers.
- Max Gallo
Max Gallo is a French writer, historian and politician. The son of Italian immigrants, Max Gallo's early career was journalism. At this time he was a Communist (until 1956). In 1974, he joined the Socialist Party. On April 26, 2007, the French Academy recorded his candidacy for its Seat 24, formerly held by the late Jean-François Revel. He was elected to the French Academy on 31 May 2007.
- Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennac is a French writer. After studying in Nice he became a teacher. He began to write for children and then wrote his book series "La Saga Malaussène", that tells the story of Benjamin Malaussène, a scapegoat, and his family in Belleville, Paris. His writing can be full of humor and imagination like in "La Saga Malaussène", but he can also write "Comme un roman", a pedagogic essay. His Comic "Débauche", written jointly with Jacques Tardi, …
- Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music.
- Priscilla
Priscilla, or Prissou is a French child and teenage singer. She was discovered in a TV show "Drôles de petits champions" when she was 11 years old, and has since released four successful albums. She is also a popular TV performer.
- Michèle Laroque
Michèle Laroque is a French actress, comedian and humorist. She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Damien Gregorini
Damien Gregorini (born March 21979 in Nice, France is a French professional football (soccer) player, currently with AS Nancy.He is tall 1.94 meters and weighs 90 kg.
- Just Fontaine
Just Fontaine is a former French football player. He holds the record for most goals scored in a single FIFA World Cup finals tournament, with thirteen in 1958. He has also scored the third most goals of any player in the world cup finals overall, beaten only by: Gerd Müller who scored fourteen goals (in two World Cup tournaments) and Ronaldo who scored fifteen goals (in four World Cup tournaments, though he only played in three).