Editing Montpellier (section)

== Notable people ==
{{Main category|People from Montpellier}}

Montpellier was the birthplace of:
* [[Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne]] ({{Circa|1110}}–1179), [[rabbi]] and author of the ''[[halakha|halakhic]]'' work ''Ha-Eshkol.''
* [[Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier]] (circa the 13th century), Jewish philosopher and [[Talmudist]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Solomon ben Abraham |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/solomon-ben-abraham |website=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref>
* [[James I of Aragon]] (1208–1276) [[King of Aragon]] and [[Lord of Montpellier]] from 1213 to 1276.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= James I. of Aragon | volume= 15 | pages = 141&ndash;142 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Nicholas of Poland]] ({{circa|1235|1316}}), Dominican healer.
* [[Saint Roch]] (1295–1327), pilgrim to Rome, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Roch, St | volume= 23 |last1= Delehaye |first1= Hippolyte |author1-link= Hippolyte Delehaye | page = 425 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Guillaume Rondelet]] (1507–1566), French physician and naturalist.
* [[Pierre Magnol]] (1638–1715), botanist, founder of the concept of plant families.
* [[Charles Bertheau]] (1660–1732), French pastor.
* [[Francois Chicoyneau]] (1672–1752), court physician and member of the French Academy of Sciences
* [[Jean Raoux]] (1677–1734), painter.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Raoux, Jean | volume= 22 | page = 898 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Louis Bertrand Castel]] (1688–1757), mathematician, entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Castel, Louis Bertrand | volume= 5 | page = 469 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Pons Augustin Alletz]] (1703–1785), agronomist<ref>Louis-Gabriel Michaud, ''Bibliographie universelle, ancienne et moderne'', 1811, tome I, pp. 592–593 [https://books.google.com/books?id=trFUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Biographie%20universelle%20(Michaud)%20ancienne%20et%20moderne%20pons%20augustin&pg=PA592]</ref>
* [[Joseph-Marie Vien]] (1716–1809), painter.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Vien, Joseph Marie | volume= 28 | page = 50 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Étienne-Hyacinthe de Ratte]] (1722–1805), mathematician and astronomer.
* [[Suzanne Verdier]] (1745–1813), writer.
* [[Cyrille Rigaud]] (1750–1824), poet.
* [[Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]] (1753–1824), lawyer and statesman, author of the [[Napoleonic Code|Code Napoléon]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Cambacérès, Jean Jacques Régis de | volume= 5 |last= Rose | first= John Holland |author-link= John Holland Rose | pages = 80&ndash;81 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas]] (1753–1837), military leader.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Dumas, Guillaume Mathieu, Count | volume= 8 | page = 657 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Louis-Sébastien Lenormand]] (1757–1837), chemist, physicist, inventor, the world's first modern parachuting pioneer
* [[Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet]] (1761–1807), naturalist, contributed primarily to botany.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Broussonet, Pierre Marie Auguste | volume= 4 | page = 656 |short= 1}}</ref> 
* [[Pierre Daru|Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte de Daru]] (1767–1829), soldier, statesman, historian and poet.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Daru, Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Count | volume= 7 |last= Rose | first= John Holland |author-link= John Holland Rose | pages = 839&ndash;840 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès]] (1784–1838), writer and spouse of French general [[Jean-Andoche Junot]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Junot, Laure | volume= 15 |last= Rose | first= John Holland |author-link= John Holland Rose | page = 561 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Frédéric Bérard]] (1789–1828), physician and philosopher.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bérard, Joseph Frédéric | volume= 3 | page = 763 |short= 1}}</ref> 
* [[Auguste Comte]] (1798–1857), a founder of the discipline of sociology.
* [[Antoine Jérôme Balard]] (1802–1876), [[chemist]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Balard, Antoine Jerôme | volume= 3 | page = 239 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Émile Saisset]] (1814–1863), philosopher.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Saisset, Émile Edmond | volume= 24 | page = 53 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Charles Bernard Renouvier]] (1815–1903), philosopher.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Renouvier, Charles Bernard | volume= 23 | page = 102 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Édouard Albert Roche]] (1820–1883), astronomer.
* [[Alfred Bruyas]] (1821–1876), art collector.
* [[Alexandre Cabanel]] (1823–1889), painter.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Cabanel, Alexandre | volume= 4 | page = 913 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Renaud de Vilbac]] (1829–1884), composer, organist.
* [[Paul Joseph Barthez]] (1734–1806), physician.
* [[Frédéric Bazille]] (1841–1870), Impressionist painter.
* [[Eugène Baudouin]] (1842–1893), painter.
* [[Paul Ferrier]] (1843–1920) dramatist, he also provided libretti for several composers.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Ferrier, Paul | volume= 10 | page = 288 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Henri Chantavoine]] (1850–1918), writer and Professor of Rhetoric.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Chantavoine, Henri | volume= 5 | page = 847 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Henri-Charles Puech]] (1902–1986), historian of religion.
* [[Léo Malet]] (1909–1996), crime novelist.
* [[Henri Carol]] (1910–1984), French composer and [[organist]].
* [[Adèle Charvet]] (born 1993), operatic mezzo-soprano.
* [[Jeanne Demessieux]] (1921–1968), organist, pianist, composer, and [[Teacher|pedagogue]].
* [[Monique de Bissy]], member of the [[Resistance during World War II]] (1923–2009)
* [[Juliette Gréco]] (1927–2020), singer and actress.
* [[Jean-Luc Dehaene]] (1940–2014), Prime-Minister of Belgium.
* [[Henri Joyeux]] (born 1945), oncologic surgeon, nutrition specialist and writer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mercier-Laurent |first=Eunika |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OVE1CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 |title=The Innovation Biosphere: Planet and Brains in the Digital Era |date=2015-06-15 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-84821-556-6 |pages=36 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Didier Auriol]] (born 1958), rally driver, 1994 [[World Rally Championship|World Rally Champion]].
* [[Rémi Gaillard]] (born 1975), famous French prankster.
* [[Sophie Divry]] (born 1979), writer, winner of the 2014 [[Prix Wepler]].
* [[Victor Aviat]] (1982–2025), oboist and conductor.

Other notable inhabitants include:
* [[François Rabelais]] (1493–1553), student at the [[University of Montpellier]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Rabelais, François | volume= 22 |last1= Saintsbury |first1= George |author1-link= George Saintsbury | pages = 769&ndash;773 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Nostradamus]] (1503–1566), student at the [[University of Montpellier]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Nostradamus | volume= 19 | page = 822 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Iacob Heraclid]] (1527–1563), [[List of Moldavian rulers|ruler]] of [[Moldavia]] from 1561 to 1563.
* [[Pierre-Joseph Amoreux]] (1741–1824), zoologist.
* [[Elisabeth Coste]] (1748–1794), French cloth merchant and resistor.
* [[Adamantios Korais]] (1748–1833), Greek humanist scholar and a major figure in the [[Greek Enlightenment]], studied at the [[University of Montpellier]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Coraës, Adamantios | volume= 7 | page = 131 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Louis Michel (fencing)|Jean-Louis Michel]] (1785–1865), fencing master, who lived in Montpellier from 1830 onwards.
* [[Agénor Azéma de Montgravier]] (1805–1863), deputy director of ''l'Ecole d'Artillerie de Montpellier'', died in Montpellier.
* [[Gaston Darboux]] (1842–1917), mathematician.
* [[Josias Braun-Blanquet]] (1884–1980), botanist.
* [[Jean Moulin]] (1899–1943), famous French resistant during WWII, studied and worked in Montpellier.
* [[Alexander Grothendieck]] (1928–2014), mathematician.
* [[Nikola Karabatić]] (born 1984), handball player.
* [[Paul Valéry]] (1871–1945), French poet, essayist, and philosopher who studied at the [[University of Montpellier]].
* [[Enver Hoxha]] (1908–1985), student at the [[University of Montpellier]].
* [[Grégory Vignal]] (born 1981), [[Birmingham City F.C.]] full-back.
* [[Taha Hussein]] (1889–1973), student at the [[University of Montpellier]].
* [[Michel Marcel Navratil|Michel Navratil]] (1908–2001), survivor of the sinking of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']].
* [[Guy Delisle]] (born 1966), Canadian-born cartoonist, animator and author.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/languedoc-roussillon/2015/01/31/le-dessinateur-montpellierain-guy-delisle-va-passer-du-cocon-familial-la-tchetchenie-645069.html | title = Le dessinateur montpelliérain Guy Delisle va passer du cocon familial à la Tchétchénie | publisher=[[France3]] | date=January 31, 2015 | access-date=May 14, 2015 | author=[[France3]] and [[Agence France-Presse|AFP]] }}</ref>
* [[Simon Billy]] (born 1991), [[Speed skiing|Speedskier]].