Editing Poitiers (section)

==Notable people==
This is a list of people of interest who were born or resided in Poitiers:
* [[Oklou]] (born 1993), musician, singer, music producer, DJ, composer and actress
* [[Hilary of Poitiers]] (c300–367), elected bishop of [[Bishopric of Poitiers|Poitiers]] around the year 350, exiled and returned to die there
* [[Saint Radegonde]] or [[Radegund]] ({{Circa|520}} to 587), Thuringian princess and queen of France, founded an abbey in Poitiers and performed miracles there
* [[Charles Martel]], French general who defeated the Muslim [[Umayyad]] army in the [[Battle of Tours]] in 732
* [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]], queen consort of France (1137-1152) and England (1152-1204), was born, periodically lived, and died in Poitiers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Eleanor of Aquitaine|access-date= 23 June 2017|periodical=Encyclopedia Britannica Online|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eleanor-of-Aquitaine}}</ref>
* [[François Rabelais]], [[Renaissance]] writer and [[humanist]]
* [[Pope Clement V]]
* [[St. Venantius Fortunatus]], 6th-century [[Latin]] poet and [[hymnodist]] and Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church
* [[Marie Louise Trichet]] (1684–1759)
* [[William Longchamp]], buried at the abbey of Le Pin, 1197
* [[René Descartes]] studied law at the University of Poitiers
* Saint [[Louis de Montfort]]
* [[Michel Aco]] (1680–1702), explorer, was born in Poitiers<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896 | publisher=[[Marquis Who's Who]] | year = 1967}}</ref>
* [[Ribar Baikoua]] (born 1991), basketball player
* [[Jehnny Beth|Camille Berthomier]] (born 1984), singer in English rock band [[Savages (band)|Savages]], actress
* [[Antoine Brizard]], born in Poitiers in 1994, member of the France men's national volleyball team.
* [[Susann Cokal]], novelist, lived in Poitiers in mid-1980s and based her first novel ''Mirabilis'' on the geography of the city
* [[Lionel Charbonnier]] (born 1966), footballer (goalkeeper), World Cup winner for France. Played most notably for AJ Auxerre and Rangers. 
* [[Romain Édouard]] (born 1990), chess player and [[grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]
* [[Éric Élisor]] (born 1971), former professional footballer
* [[Maryse Éwanjé-Épée]] (born 1964), athlete
* [[Monique Éwanjé-Épée]] (born 1967), athlete
* [[Fernand Fau]], born in Poitiers in 1858, illustrator and cartoonist 
* [[Michel Foucault]] (1926–1984), philosopher
* [[Marie-France Garaud]], born in Poitiers in 1934, politician
* [[Hélène Grémillon]], (born 1977), writer, winner of the 2011 [[Prix Emmanuel Roblès]]
* [[Camille Guérin]], born in Poitiers in 1872, discovered a vaccine against tuberculosis with [[Albert Calmette]] in 1924
* [[Bruce Inkango]] (born 1984), footballer
* [[Yassine Jebbour]] (born 1991), footballer
* [[Brian Joubert]] (born 1984), [[ice skating]] champion
* [[Natan Jurkovitz]] (born 1995), French-Swiss-Israeli basketball player for [[Hapoel Be'er Sheva]] of the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]]
* [[Hervé Lhommedet]] (born 1973), footballer
* [[Frédéric Mémin]] (born 1979), footballer
* [[Blanche Monnier]] (1849–1913), socialite, known for being falsely imprisoned by her mother for 25 years
* [[Mahyar Monshipour]] (born 1975), [[World Boxing Association]] super bantamweight champion from 2003 to 2006
* [[Francis N'Ganga]] (born 1985), footballer
* [[Elsa N'Guessan]] (born 1984), swimmer
* [[Simon Pagenaud]], race car driver
* [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]] (born 1948), politician and senator for [[Vienne (department)|Vienne]], former [[prime minister of France]] (2002–2005)
* [[Joël Robuchon]], born in Poitiers in 1945, French chef and restaurateur
* [[Paul Rougnon]] (1846–1934), composer and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris
* [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]], born in Poitiers in 1956, French author
* [[Louis Vierne]] (1870–1937), organist & composer, eventually at the Notre Dame cathedral, Paris
* [[Romain Vincelot]] (born 1985), footballer