Editing Cherbourg (section)

==Personalities linked to the commune==
===Natives of Cherbourg===
[[File:JeanHamon.jpg|thumb|{{center|Jean Hamon.}}]]
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* [[Masseot Abaquesne]] ({{circa|1500}}–1564), ceramicist
* [[Jean Nicolet]] (1598–1642), explorer of New France
* [[Philippe Mius d'Entremont]] (c.&nbsp;1601 – c.&nbsp;1700), Baron of Pobomcoup and coloniser
* [[Jean Hamon (doctor)|Jean Hamon]] (1618–1687), medical doctor and [[Solitaires of Port-Royal|solitaire of Port-Royal]] ;
* {{Ill|Nicolas d'Orange des Roches|fr}} (1626–1705), brigadier of the Armies of the King under [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]], Governor of the Hôtel des Invalides
* {{Ill|Gilles Le Hédois|fr}}, known as ''Du Bocage'' ({{abbr|b.|born}}&nbsp;1658), French corsair then vice-admiral of Brazil
* [[Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de Beauvais|Jean Baptiste de Beauvais]] (1731–1790), preacher and representative to the [[Estates General of 1789]]
* {{Ill|Louis Vastel|fr}}, (1746–1819), lawyer at the [[Parlement de Normandie|Parlement of Rouen]], and author of works of law
* [[Amable Troude]] (1762–1824), General of the Empire
* {{Ill|Pierre-Adrien de La Chapelle|fr}} (1780–1854), botanist
* {{Ill|François Leconte|fr}} (1791–1872), sailor
* [[Lizinska de Mirbel]] (1796–1849), miniaturist
* {{Ill|Alfred Charles Ernest Franquet de Franqueville|fr}} (1809–1876), engineer
* {{Ill|Allyre Bureau|fr}} (1810–1859), politician, musician
* {{Ill|Hippolyte Vallée|fr}} (1816–1885), founder of the ''Fondation Vallée'', for mentally retarded children in [[Gentilly, Val-de-Marne|Gentilly]]
* [[Joachim Menant]] (1820–1899), [[Assyriology|Assyriologist]]
* [[Emmanuel Liais]] (1826–1900), astronomer and mayor of Cherbourg
* [[Alfred-Alexandre Quentin]] (1827–1895), trombonist
* {{Ill|Alfred Rossel|fr}} (1841–1926), songwriter in the [[Norman language]]
* [[Georges Sorel]] (1847–1922), political thinker
* {{Ill|Louise Rousseau (writer)|fr|Louise Rousseau|lt=Louise Rousseau}} (b.&nbsp;1854), writer
* [[Henry Moret]] (1856–1913), painter of the [[Pont-Aven School]]
* {{ill|Charles-Émile Bertin|fr}} (1871–1959), colonel, eminent specialist in [[Meiji period]] Japan
* [[Victor Grignard]] (1871–1935), Nobel chemist laureate of the Nobel Prize in 1912
* [[Lortac]] (1884–1973), writer and French pioneer of animated cartoons
* [[Joseph Noyon]] (1888–1962), compositeur, arrangeur (''{{Interlanguage link|Hymne à la nuit|fr}}'' [Hymn to the night], ''[[Il est né le divin enfant]]'' [He is born the divine child])
* {{Ill|Louis-Amédée Lefèvre|fr}} (1890–1968), [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabat|Archbishop of Rabat]]
* [[Félix Amiot]] (1894–1974), aircraft builder and creator of [[Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie]] (CMN)
* {{Ill|Paul-Auguste Halley|fr}} (1907–2002) and [[Paul-Louis Halley]] (1934-2003), founders of the [[Promodès]] Group
* {{Ill|Louis Gallien|fr}} (1908–1976), biologist and zoologist
* {{Ill|André Defrance|fr}} (1908–1952), member of the Resistance
[[File:Jean Marais by van Vechten, 1947.jpg|thumb|{{center|Jean Marais.}}]]
* [[Jean Marais]] (1913–1998), actor and stuntman
* [[Roland Barthes]] (1915–1980), [[Semiotics|semiologist]]
* [[Jean-Charles Tacchella]] (b.&nbsp;1925), filmmaker, author of ''[[Cousin Cousine]]'' (1975) ;
* {{Ill|Maurice Séveno|fr}} (b.&nbsp;1925), journaliste, former television news presenter, and politician
* [[Annie Saumont]] (b.&nbsp;1927), writer, laureate of the {{Ill|Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle|fr}} in 1981
* [[Jacques Rouxel (animator)|Jacques Rouxel]] (1931–2004), animator, creator of ''[[Les Shadoks]]''
* [[Michel Besnier]] (b&nbsp;1945), writer
* {{Ill|Billy Bridge|fr}} (1945–1994), singer who has imported the [[madison (dance)|madison]] into France in the 1960s
* {{Ill|Patrick Thuillier|fr}} (b.&nbsp;1951), poet
* {{Ill|Daniel Lacotte|fr}} (b&nbsp;1951), writer
* {{Ill|Halvard Mabire|fr}} (b&nbsp;1956), sailor
* [[Élisabeth Ballet]] (b&nbsp;1957), sculptor
* {{Ill|François Galgani|fr}} (b&nbsp;1958), oceanographer
* {{Ill|Joseph de Metz-Noblat|fr}} (b&nbsp;1959), Bishop of Langres
* [[Rosette (actress)|Rosette]] (b&nbsp;1959), film actress
* {{Ill|Olivier Thiébaut|fr}} (b&nbsp;1963), writer and illustrator
* [[Wilfried Gohel]] (b&nbsp;1968), footballer
* [[Laurent Leflamand]] (b&nbsp;1968), rugby player
* [[Françoiz Breut]] (b&nbsp;1969), singer
* {{Ill|Julie Raynaud|fr}} (b&nbsp;1971), television presenter
* [[Émilie Loit]] (b&nbsp;1979), tennis player
* {{Interlanguage link|Julie Quéré|fr}} (b&nbsp;1982), comedian
* [[Amaël Moinard]] (b&nbsp;1982), cyclist
* [[Élodie Godin]] (b&nbsp;1985), basketball player
* [[Lise de la Salle]] (b&nbsp;1988), pianist
* [[Ernst Umhauer]] (b&nbsp;1989), actor

===Natives of Octeville===
* {{Interlanguage link|Édouard Lebas|fr}} (1897–1975), prefect and French politician.

===Died in Cherbourg===
* {{Interlanguage link|Jean-Baptiste Auguste Digard de Lousta|fr|3=Jean-Baptiste Auguste Digard de Lousta|lt=Jean-Baptiste Digard de Lousta}} (1803–1879), historian and poet.
* [[Prosper Payerne]] (1806–1886), physician, scientist and inventor.
* [[Armand Le Véel]] (1821–1905), statue sculptor.
* {{Interlanguage link|Alexandre Marie du Crest de Villeneuve|fr}} (1813–1892), Rear Admiral.
* [[Jean-Charles-Alexandre Sallandrouze de Lamornaix]] (1840–1899), Admiral, Commander in Chief of the Squadron of the North, died in harbour on the battleship [[French ironclad Formidable|''Formidable'']].
* [[Louis Corbière]] (1850–1941), botanist.
* [[Heinz Hellmich]] (1890 – 17 June 1944) German General who served in the [[German Army (Wehrmacht)|Wehrmacht]] during [[World War II]].
* {{Interlanguage link|Jean Simon (general)|fr|Jean Simon|lt=Jean Simon}} (1912–2003), one of the negotiators of the [[Évian Accords]] for the abandonment of French Algeria
* {{Interlanguage link|Louis Darinot|fr}} (1925–2006), politician, deputy mayor of Cherbourg

===Others linked to Cherbourg===
[[File:Napoleon a Cherbourg bordercropped.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of Napoleon at Cherbourg.]]

The work of the seawall and the military port in Cherbourg led many soldiers and engineers, for whom this step was often an important moment in their career. Thus, [[Charles François Dumouriez]] (1739–1823), Governor of Cherbourg who was responsible for the first work, at the dawn of the French Revolution, [[Joseph Cachin]] (1757–1825), engineer assigned by [[Napoleon]] to the general direction of the maritime work of Cherbourg in 1804. For twenty years, he realised the improvement of the commercial port, and the digging of the docks of the [[Cherbourg Naval Base|military port]], constituting the New Arsenal. [[Henri Rieunier]] (1833–1918) who was twice major of the Navy in Cherbourg (1872/1875) and [[Louis-Émile Bertin]] (1840–1924) who lived in Cherbourg from 1863 to 1879, and is buried in the cemetery of [[La Glacerie]]. [[Charles-Eugène Delaunay]] (1816–1872), Director of the [[Paris Observatory]], drowned while visiting the harbour. Among the engineers of the [[DCNS (company)|Directorate of construction and naval weapons]], included [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]] (1789–1857) and also [[Maxime Laubeuf]]. Under the [[Ancien Régime]], the safeguarding of the Château de Cherbourg was already the task of illustrious figures of the Kingdom, such as {{Interlanguage link|Pierre des Essarts|fr}}, the {{Interlanguage link|House of Goyon|fr|3=Maison de Goyon|lt=family of Matignon}} and {{Interlanguage link|Jacques de Callières|fr}} ({{abbr|d.|died}}&nbsp;1697). At the origin of the military port, [[Napoleon]] (1769–1821), who visited the city in 1811, ''"Revient"'' in Cherbourg in 1840 during the [[Retour des cendres|return of his remains]] to France, aboard [[French ship Belle Poule (1834)|''La Belle Poule'']], before being taken to [[Les Invalides]].

A transatlantic port of the 20th century, Cherbourg saw Hollywood stars arrive, such as [[Charlie Chaplin]], who organised his disembarkation in 1952 to a press conference in the ''gare maritime'', critical of the [[McCarthyism|McCarthyist]] America that he left. The port saw a lot of famous people, including businessman [[Benjamin Guggenheim]] (1865–1912) for his fatal voyage on the [[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]. Cinema then gave Cherbourg another lasting reputation, through the images of [[Jacques Demy]] (1931–1990) and music by [[Michel Legrand]] (1932-2019), in ''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]''. Earlier, [[Frida Boccara]] (1940–1996), knew great success in 1961 with her song ''Cherbourg avait raison''. The letters were not left with [[Académie française|academician]] [[Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente|Georges Grente]] (1872–1959), superior of the Saint-Paul Institute, and [[Ernest Psichari]] (1883–1914), soldier and writer, whose garrison stay in Cherbourg in 1914 with the 2nd colonial artillery regiment inspires ''L'Appel des armes''.