Editing Eure-et-Loir (section)

==Notable people==

=== Middle Ages ===
* [[Hugues Capet]] (c. 939 – 996), [[King of the Franks]], deceased near [[Voves]]
* [[Fulbert de Chartres]] (952-970 – 1028), bishop founder of [[School of Chartres]]
* [[Bernard of Tiron]] (1046 - 1117), founder of the monastic [[order of Tiron]] and of the abbey of [[Thiron-Gardais]]
* [[John of Salisbury]] (1115 - 1180), student of [[Abélard]] and of [[Fulbert de Chartres]]. British intellectual, friend of [[Thomas Becket]]. Bishop of Chartres from 1176 to 1180.
* [[Philippe VI of France]] (1293 – 1350), died at the Abbey of Notre-Dame of [[Coulombs, Eure-et-Loir|Coulombs]], near [[Nogent-le-Roi]]
* [[Jean II of France]] (1319 – 1364), who signed the [[Treaty of Brétigny]] during the [[Hundred Years War]] at [[Sours]], a village near Chartres

=== Renaissance ===
* [[Joan of France, Duchess of Berry]] (1464 - 1505), born in [[Nogent-le-Roi]], wife of [[Louis XII of France]], canonised by the Pope [[Pius XII]] in 1950.
* [[Diane de Poitiers]] (1499 - 1566), favourite of [[Henry II of France]]
* [[Rémy Belleau]] (1526 - 1577), poet of the [[Pléiade]]
* [[Henri IV of France]] (1553 - 1610), crowned in [[Chartres Cathedral]]
* [[Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette]] (1554 – 1642), Duc d'Épernon, minion of [[Henri III of France]].
* [[Maximilien de Béthune]] (1559 - 1641), duke of [[Sully-sur-Loire]] died at the [[Villebon]] château, buried at [[Nogent-le-Rotrou]])

=== 19th and 20th century ===
*[[Émile Zola]] (1840 – 1902), who was inspired by [[Romilly-sur-Aigre]] for his novel ''[[La Terre]]''
*[[Marcel Proust]] (1871 – 1922) spent time during his youth in the town [[Illiers-Combray]] where his aunt lived
*[[Paul-Félix Armand-Delille]] (1874 – 1963), bacteriologist
*[[Chaïm Soutine]] (1893 – 1943), painter
*[[Simone Segouin]] (1925 -  ), also known by her ''nom de guerre'' Nicole Minet, is a former French Resistance fighter who served in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans group.
*[[Lolita Lempicka]] (1954 - ), fashion designer and perfumer who lives in [[Berchères-sur-Vesgre]]