Editing Avignon (section)

=== Public service & the Church ===
* [[Pope Gregory XI]] (ca.1329 – 1378), the seventh and last Avignon pope.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Gregory (Popes)/Gregory XI | volume= 12 | page = 574 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Francis Lambert]] (ca.1486 – 1530), a Protestant reformer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Lambert, Francis | volume= 16 |last= Pollard |first= Albert Frederick |author-link= Albert Pollard | page = 107 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Georges d'Armagnac]] (ca.1501 – 1585), humanist, patron of arts, Cardinal and diplomat 
* [[Alexandre de Rhodes]] (1591–1664), [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[missionary]].<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Alexandre De Rhodes|noicon=x}}</ref>
* [[Chevalier de Folard]] (1669–1752), soldier and military theorist, championed [[Column (formation)|infantry columns]]
* [[Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, 1st Duke of Mahón|Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon]] (1717–1796), [[Captain general of the Army]]. 
* [[Étienne-Antoine Boulogne]] (1747–1825), cleric, [[List of bishops of Troyes|Bishop of Troyes]], 1809–1825.
* [[Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas]] (1771–1839), antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat 
* [[Joseph Agricol Viala]] (1778–1793), child hero in the [[French Revolutionary Army]], killed aged 15 
* [[John Stuart Mill]] (1806 – 1873 in Avignon), an English philosopher, political economist and MP; he is buried in the local cemetery.{{sfn|Girard|1958|p=356}}
* [[Édouard Daladier]] (1884–1970), politician and 3 x pre-war [[Prime Minister of France]]
* [[Bernard Kouchner]] (born 1939), politician and doctor, co-founded [[Médecins Sans Frontières]]
* [[Edmond Alphandéry]] (born 1943), politician, public-sector company executive
* [[Muriel Casals i Couturier]] (1945–2016), a Catalan economist and academic