Editing Cherbourg (section)

===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