Editing Le Mans (section)

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of 24 Hours of Le Mans fatalities}}

Le Mans was the birthplace of:
[[File:Basile Moreau CSC.jpg|thumb|150px|Basil Moreau around 1860]]
* [[Elijah ben Menahem Ha-Zaken]], born 980
* [[Henry II of England]], born 1133
* [[Geoffrey of Anjou|Geoffroy V d'Anjou]], born 1113
* [[Geoffrey de Goreham]] or Gorron, became [[Abbot of St Albans]], Hertfordshire, UK in 1119
* [[John II of France]], born 1319
* [[Louis Le Pelletier|Dom Louis Le Pelletier]], born 1663, linguist of the [[Breton language]] 
* [[Gilles-François de Beauvais]], born 7 July 1693, Jesuit writer and preacher
* [[Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle]] (1748–1835), engineer, scientist and pioneer of ballooning
* [[Basil Moreau]], born 1799, priest of Le Mans, founded the [[Congregation of Holy Cross]], beatified in Le Mans in 2007
* [[Léon Bollée]], born 1870, car manufacturer and inventor
* [[Henri Fournier]], born 1871, racing driver
* [[Christine and Lea Papin]], whose murder (1933) of their employers inspired [[Jean Genêt]]'s ''[[The Maids]]''
* [[Jean Françaix]], born in 1912, composer
* [[Jean Lucas (racing driver)|Jean Lucas]], born 1917, racing driver
* [[Anny-Charlotte Verney]], born 1943, racing driver
* [[François Migault]], born 1944, racing driver
* [[Jean Rondeau (racing driver)|Jean Rondeau]], born in 1946, racing driver and constructor
* [[Gérard Tremblay (racing driver)|Gérard Tremblay]], born 1950, racing driver
* [[Jean-Yves Empereur]] born 1952, archeologist
* [[Bertrand Lançon]], born 1952, Roman history scholar
* [[François Fillon]], born in 1954, former Prime Minister of France
* [[Yves Jumeau]], born in 1955, visual artist
* [[François Vallejo]], born 1960, novelist
* [[Sylvie Tolmont]], born 1962, politician
* [[Lionel Robert]], born 1962, racing driver
* [[Sabine Toutain]], born in 1966, violist
* [[Doan Bui]], born in the 1970s, journalist
*[[Amaelle Landais-Israël]], born 1977, climatologist
* [[Emmanuel Moire]], born 1979, French singer
* [[Sébastien Bourdais]], born 1979, race car driver
* [[Julien Canal]], born 1982, race car driver
* [[Jo-Wilfried Tsonga]], born 1985, professional tennis player
* [[Guillaume Loriot]], footballer
* [[Leslie (singer)|Leslie]], born 4 February 1985, French singer
* [[Louis Rossi]] born 1989, Grand Prix motorcycle racer
* [[Emma Mackey]], born 1996, French-British actress

Notable residents include:
* [[Gilles Villeneuve]], lived temporarily in Le Mans in 1973.
* [[Gérard Genette]], literary theorist, lived and taught in Le Mans from 1956 to 1963. 
* [[Jacques Derrida]], philosopher, lived and taught in Le Mans in 1959–1960. 
* [[David Jason]], English actor, lived in Le Mans between 1965–1968 and 1999–2001.
* [[Andy Wallace (racing driver)|Andy Wallace]], born 1961, racecar driver.

Died in Le Mans:
* [[Liborius of Le Mans]] (c. 348–397), [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Mans|bishop of Le Mans]]
* [[André d'Arbelles]] (1767–1825), journalist and historiographer
*[[Lawrence Aubrey Wallace]] (1857–1942) British Colonial Administrator