- Lew Syn Pau
Lew Syn Pau was a former Member of Parliament in Singapore as a People's Action Party politician. Since 2002, he has been President of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association (SMA). In 2005, he was charged under the Companies Act for corruption, but was acquitted in August 2006.
- François Bayrou
François Bayrou is a French politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998, and a candidate in the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round, he received 18.5% of votes, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race. (Only the top two candidates participated in the runoff election, which was held on May 6). A former Member of the European Parliament, …
- Paul Pau
Paul Marie Cesar Gerald Pau, (November 29, 1848- August 22, 1932) was a French General, a commander of an army at the beginning of World War I. When war broke out in 1914 French commander in chief General Joseph Joffre recalled General Pau from retirement to command the "Army of Alsace" to participate in attacks called for by the doomed French Plan XVII.
- Manuel De Oms Y De Santa Pau
Manuel de Oms y de Santa Pau, primer marqués de Castelldosrius (* 1651, Barcelona, † 24 April 1710, Lima), was a Spanish diplomat, man of letters, and colonial official. From July 7, 1707 to April 22, 1710, he was viceroy of Peru.
- Petra Pau
Petra Pau (born 9 August 1963) is a member of the Left Party.PDS in the German parliament, the Bundestag. From 1998 - 2005 she was one of just two party representatives, having been directly elected as the representative of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, a working-class area of east Berlin. She used to be a leader of the East German pioneers and an art teacher.
- Peter Pau
Peter Pau is a Hong Kong-based cinematographer, best known to western audiences as the cinematographer in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", for which he won the Best Cinematographer Oscar in 2000. Pau is a member of the HKSC. The asteroid 34420 Peterpau was named in his honour in early 2006.
- 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."
- Imanol Harinordoquy
Imanol Harinordoquy (born 20 February 1980) is a French rugby union player who typically plays as a number 8 for France internationally and Biarritz at club level. Before signing with Biarritz for the 2004-05 season, he played club rugby at Pau. Despite his relative youth, he is generally regarded as one of the top number eights in international rugby union today.
- Damien Traille
Damien Traille (born 12 June, 1979 in Pau, France) is a French rugby union footballer. His usual position is in the centres or at fly-half. He currently plays for Biarritz Olympique in the Top 14 club competition in France. Traille has played for France, including at the 2003 Rugby World Cup as well as France's Six Nations victories in 2002, 2004 and 2006. He played for Section Paloise from the late 1990s through to 2004, when he moved to his current club, Biarritz.
- Pedro Lamy
Pedro Lamy was the son of a second-hand car dealer. He started competing in motocross when young before moving into kart racing and winning the Portuguese title in 1988. The following year he raced in Formula Ford in Portugal and then in 1990 moved to the GM Lotus Euroseries. The following year he joined Draco Racing, succeeding Rubens Barrichello in the drive, won the European title and was recruited to drive for the WTS team in German Formula 3.
- Alain Lamassoure
Alain Lamassoure (born 10 February 1944 in Pau) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. He is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, …
- Nicolas Brusque
Nicolas Brusque (born 7 August, 1976 in Pau, Aquitaine) is a French rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Biarritz Olympique in the top level of French rugby, the Top 14 competition. He has also represented France, and has played for the national team, including being a part of their 2003 Rugby World Cup squad. He usually plays at fullback. He made his international debut for France in a match against Romania in Lourdes in 1997.
- Pippa Funnell
Pippa Funnell MBE (born 7 October 1968) is a world class equestrian sportswoman. She competes in three-day eventing. Funnell was born in Crowborough, East Sussex in 1968. She became "European Young Rider Champion" in 1987 after successfully competing on "Sir Barnaby" at Bialy Bor, Poland. In 1999 she became European Champion at Luhmühlen riding "Supreme Rock" and again on the same horse in 2001 at Pau.
- Jean-Pierre Wimille
Jean-Pierre Wimille (February 26, 1908 - January 28, 1949) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Born in Paris, France to a father who loved motor sports and was employed as the motoring correspondent for the Petit Parisien newspaper, Jean-Pierre Wimille developed a fascination with racing cars at a young age. He was 22 years old when he made his Grand Prix debut, …
- Charly Mottet
Charly Mottet (born December 16 1962) is a French former professional cyclist (1983 to 1994). He was one of the best French road cyclists of his era, Mottet won a total of 67 races, including the Tour de Romandie in 1990, and has 8 participations in the Tour de France. His best results in the Tour de France were the 4th positions in 1987 and 1990.
- Nathalie Cardone
Nathalie Cardone is a French actress and singer from Pau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She was born to a Sicilian father and a Spanish mother.
- Cedric Gracia
Cedric Gracia (born 23 July 1978 in Pau, France) is a French mountain biker. He races in downhill and four cross(4X), and is ranked 5th and 3rd respectively in the UCI World Rankings (as of January 2006). Gracia rode for the Rainer-Wurz Siemens Cannondale team between 1999 and 2005, before joining the Commencal team in 2006. In 2003 Cedric won the Red Bull Rampage, a massive freeride competition.
- Kenneth White
Professor Kenneth White (born April 28, 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a poet, academic and writer.
- André Courrèges
André Courrèges is a French fashion designer, known for his ultra-modern designs. Born in Pau in 1923. At the age of 25, after studying to be a civil engineer, he went to Paris to work at Geanne Lafaurie fashion design house. A few months later he went over to Balenciaga, the renowned Spanish designer. Courrèges, "the lord of the miniskirt," gave women freedom of body and comfortartable simplicity. He built his dresses rather than designed them.
- Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg
Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg is a French politician. He was born in Pau.
- Khalid Zoubaa
Khalid Zoubaa is a French long-distance runner. He finished fifth in the 5000 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and sixth at the 2006 IAAF World Cup. His personal best time is 13:11.97 minutes, achieved in June 2006 in Huelva. In 2007 Zoubaa was found guilty of EPO doping. The sample was delivered on 27 January 2007 in an in-competition test in Pau, France. He received an IAAF suspension from February 2007 to February 2010.
- Olivier Sourgens
Olivier Sourgens is a French rugby union player. He plays at. Sourgens has played six times for France A and played club rugby for Bordeaux-Bègles, Stade Montois and Pau before joining Bourgoin. With Pieter de Villiers, Sylvain Marconnet and Olivier Milloud, all unavailable, Sourgens received an international call-up for France's two Test tour of New Zealand. Sourgens made his Test debut at the age of 35 against the All Blacks in Wellington in June 2007.
- Julien Cardy
Julien Cardy (born 29 September, 1981 in Pau) is a French football midfielder, currently playing for FC Metz.
- Gerard Labuda
Gerard Labuda (born December 28, 1916, Nowa Huta by Kartuzy) is a Polish historian of the Middle Ages and of the Western Slavs; from 1950, a professor at Poznań University; rector 1962-1965; from 1951 a member of the Polish Academy of Learning ("PAU"), and from 1964 of the Polish Academy of Sciences ("PAN"); and from 1959 to 1961, director of the Western Institute ("Instytut Zachodni") in Poznań.
- Sébastien Chabbert
Sébastien Chabbert is a French Footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for RC Lens of Ligue 1. He was born on the 15 May 1978, in Pau, France.
- Tadeusz Banachiewicz
Tadeusz Banachiewicz was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and geodesist. He was educated at Warsaw University. In 1905, after the closure of the University by the Russians, he moved to Göttingen and in 1906 to the Pulkowa Observatory. He also worked at the Engel'gardt Observatory at Kazan University from 1910-1915; in Russian his last name was written Банахевич. In 1919, after Poland regained her independence, Banachiewicz moved to Kraków, …
- Arnaud Geyre
Arnaud Geyre (born April 21, 1935 in Pau) is a retired cyclist from France who represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There he won the gold medal in the Men's Team Road Race, alongside Michel Vermeulin and Maurice Moucheraud, and the silver in the Men's Individual Road Race. Geyre was a professional from 1958 to 1963.
- Charles Denis Bourbaki
Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki was a French general. He was born at Pau, the son of Greek colonel Constantin Denis Bourbaki, who died in the War of Independence in 1827. He was educated at the Prytanée National Militaire, entered St Cyr, and in 1836 joined the "Zouaves", becoming lieutenant of the Foreign Legion in 1838, and "aide-de-camp" to King Louis Philippe. It was in the African expedition that he first came to the front.
- Léon Delagrange
Léon Delagrange was a French aviator; also a sculptor. He was born at Orléans and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. As a sculptor, he is known for several notable works, especially "Florentine Page", "A Templar", "Love and Youth", "A Huguenot", and "Girl Dancers." In September, 1908, a year after his first flight in an aëroplane, he established a record of 15.2 miles in 29 minutes, 53 seconds, …
- Édouard Cissé
Édouard Cissé is a french football player who plays for Beşiktaş J.K. in Super League, the top league in Turkish football. He was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, southwest France and wears the number eight shirt for PSG. He is a midfielder, 1.86 metres tall. He previously played for Monaco in France and West Ham in the English Premiership.
- Al Charron
Al Charron (born on July 27, 1966 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian rugby union footballer. He played at back-row forward and was capped 80 times for the Canadian national team, the Canucks. He played club rugby for Ottawa, Bristol and Pau and Dax. Charron was a favourite with the supporters of many of the European clubs he played for.
- Martin Earley
Martin Earley (born June 15, 1962 in Dublin, Ireland) is a former Irish professional road bicycle racer. He turned professional in 1985 with the Fagor team which whom he stayed until 1987. In 1986 he won the the fourteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia and the second stage of the Tour of the Basque country. In 1987, he was part of the small successful Irish team at the world road race championships that ended up with a win by Stephen Roche.
- Joe Lloyd
Joseph "Joe" Lloyd (1864-?) was an English professional golfer who won the third U.S. Open Championship at the Chicago Golf Club in 1897. Lloyd grew up playing at Hoylake. He was the first golf professional in France, being hired in 1883 at the Pau Golf Club in Pau, France, by Englishmen spending their winters there. From 1895 to 1909, he spent his summers as the club professional at the Essex County Club, in Manchester, …
- Dornford Yates
Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer (August 7 1885 - March 5 1960). Born at Walmer, Kent, he lived in Pau, France from 1922 to 1940, and in Umtali, Rhodesia, (now Mutare, Zimbabwe) from 1946 until his death.
- Jean de Gassion
Jean, Count of Gassion (1609 Pau - 1647 Lens) was a redoutable Gascon military commander for France, prominent at the battle of Rocroi (1643), who reached the rank of Marshal of France at the age of thirty-four. He served Louis XIII and Louis XIV and died of wounds at the siege of Lens. Cardinal Richelieu called him "la Guerre" ("War") and commandeered his services which had proved valuable to Gustavus Adolphus, …
- Gastón de Peralta marqués de Falces
Gastón de Peralta, Marquis of Falces was born in Pau, Navarre (now in France) and died in Valladolid, Spain. He was viceroy of New Spain from October 16, 1566 to March 10, 1568.
- Marian Kukiel
Marian Włodzimierz Kukiel pseudonym: Marek Kąkol, Stach Zawierucha was a Polish general, historian, social and political activist. One of the founders of Związek Walki Czynnej in 1908 and prominent member of Związek Strzelecki; he fought in the Polish Legions in First World War. Kukiel became from 1919 until 1920 Deputy Head of Section III of the Polish General Staff and took part in the Polish-Soviet War.
- Pierre Clement de Laussat
Pierre Clement de Laussat was a French politician, and the last French governor of Louisiana. De Laussat was born in the town of Pau. After serving as "receveur général des finances" in Pau and Bayonne, he was imprisoned during the Terror, but was released and recruited in the "armée des Pyrénées". On April 17 1797 was elected in the Council of Ancients. After the coup of 18 Brumaire, he entered in the Tribunat on December 25 1799.
- Pierre Langlais
Pierre Charles Albert Marie Langlais (born December 2, 1909) was the ad-hoc commander of the French garrison at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Langlais was born at Pontivy, in Morbihan. During his third tour of Indochina, he fought at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and was captured. By 1966, Langlais had been promoted to Brigadier General, and commanded the French 20th Airborne Brigade at Pau.
- Stefan Mazurkiewicz
Stefan Mazurkiewicz (born September 25 1888 in Warsaw, then Russian Empire - died June 19 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland) was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning ("PAU"). His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Saks, and Antoni Zygmund.