Editing Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (section)

== Notable people ==

=== People born in Pau ===
[[File:Musée national du Château de Pau - Portait d'Henri IV en Mars - Ambroise Dubois P 81 20 1.jpg|thumb|[[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]], King of France]]
[[File:Nordgren - Portrait de Charles Jean Bernadotte, roi de Suède.jpg|thumb|[[Charles XIV John of Sweden|Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte]], King of Sweden and Norway]]
[[File:André Courrèges.jpg|thumb|[[André Courrèges]], 1985]]
*[[Francis Phoebus of Navarre|François Phébus]] (1467–1483), Count of Foix and Viscount of Béarn from 1479 to 1483
*[[Gastón de Peralta, 3rd Marquis of Falces]] (1510–1587), viceroy of [[New Spain]] from 1566 to 1568
*[[Jeanne d'Albret]] (1528–1572), Queen of [[Navarre]] from 1555 to 1572
*[[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]] (1553–1610), [[King of France]] from 1589 to 1610 and Navarre from 1572 to 1610.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Henry IV. of France |volume = 13 |last= |first= |author-link= |pages=292-293 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Porthos]] (1617), [[musketeer]]
*[[Jean de Gassion]] (1609–1647), Marshal of France under [[Louis XIII of France|Louis XIII]] and [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]]
*[[Pierre Clément de Laussat]] (1756–1835), politician
*[[Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte]] (1763–1844), [[Marshal of France]] and later [[Monarch of Sweden|King of Sweden]] and [[King of Norway|Norway]] as [[Charles XIV John of Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Charles XIV. |volume=5|last= Bains |first=Robert Nisbet  |author-link=Robert Nisbet Bain |pages=931-932|short=1}}</ref>
*{{Ill|Guillaume Latrille de Lorencez|fr}} (1772–1855), general of the armies of the Republic and the Empire
*[[Charles-Denis Bourbaki]] (1816–1897), general of Greek descent.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Bourbaki, Charles Denis Sauter |volume = 4 |last= |first= |author-link= |pages=324-325 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Maurice de Mirecki]] (1845–1900) musician
*{{Ill|Philippe Dauzon|fr}} (1860–1918), politician, grandson of the hellenist [[Philippe Le Bas]] and great-grandson of the conventional [[Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas|Philippe Le Bas]]
*{{Ill|Adrien Pozzi|fr}} (1860–1939), politician and surgeon
*[[Paul-Jean Toulet]] (1867–1920), poet and writer
*{{Ill|Charles François-Saint-Maur|fr}} (1869–1949), politician
*{{Ill|Ernest Gabard|fr}} (1879–1957), sculptor, painter, watercolorist
*[[Pierre Henri Cami]] (1884–1958), writer, humorist, actor, journalist, illustrator and cartoonist
*[[Fernand Forgues]] (1884–1973), former international [[Rugby union]] footballer, [[France national rugby union team|French international]] player
*[[André Moulonguet]] (1887–1983), physician, otolaryngologist and member, [[Académie Nationale de Médecine]]
*[[Jean Jules Verdenal]] (1890–1915), friend and correspondent of [[T. S. Eliot]]
*[[Georges Loustaunau-Lacau]] (1894–1955), military, personality of the [[Far-right politics|extreme right]] in the 1930s, resistant
*[[Bertrand d'Astorg]] (1913–1988), writer, poet, winner of the 1980 [[Prix de l'essai]]
*[[Louis Auriacombe]] (1917–1982), conductor
*{{Ill|Georges Laplace|fr}} (1918–2004), prehistorian
*{{Ill|Henriette Bidouze|fr}} (1921–1989) resistant, Communist and feminist activist
*[[Yvon Bourges]] (1921–2009), son of a colonel, Gaullist resistant, sub-prefect of [[Erstein]] (Bas-Rhin), Minister of defence in 1975, Mayor of [[Dinard]], MP and Senator RPR of the arrondissement of [[Saint-Malo]]
*[[André Courrèges]] (1923–2016), couturier. In 1965, his collection contributed to the success of the [[miniskirt]]
*{{Ill|René-Marie Castaing|fr}} (1924), artist painter (Premier Grand [[Prix de Rome]])
*[[Robert Massard]] (1925), baritone from the Paris Opera
*{{Ill|André Labarrère|fr}} (1928–2006), associate of history ([[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]), doctor of letters, Mayor of Pau, Minister, MP and Senator
*[[Donald O'Brien (actor)|Donal O'Brien]] (1930–2003), actor
*[[Francis Mer]] (1939), industrialist and politician
*{{Ill|Guy Penaud|fr}} (1943), historian, senior honorary police Commissioner
*[[Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg]] (born 1943), politician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/deputes/fiche/OMC_PA2713|title=M. Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg – Mandat clos – Val-de-Marne (3e circonscription) – Assemblée nationale|first=Assemblée|last=Nationale|website=www2.assemblee-nationale.fr}}</ref>
*[[Alain Lamassoure]] (1944), politician
*{{Ill|Francis Lassus|fr}} (1961), musician
*[[Yves Camdeborde]] (1964), chef
*[[Bertrand Cantat]] (1964), singer and actor
*{{Ill|Éric Gonzalès|fr}} (1964), writer
*{{Ill|Jean-Marc Laurent|fr}} (1965), man of radio and television, host (France-Bleu, NRJ, RFI), TV presenter (Loto, Odyssée, Matin-Bonheur)
*{{Ill|Ariane Massenet|fr}} (1965), television host
*[[Frédéric Lopez]] (1967), television host
*[[Nathalie Cardone]] (1967), singer
*[[Philippe Rombi]] (1968), composer
*[[Éric Piolle]] (1973), engineer and politician, mayor of [[Grenoble]]
*[[Nicolas Cazalé]] (1977), actor and model
*[[Fabienne Carat]] (1979), actress
*[[Isabelle Ithurburu]] (1983), television presenter
*[[William Buzy]] (1989), writer and journalist

====Sport (born in Pau)====
*[[René Léonard]] (1889–1965), racing driver
*[[Victor Fontan]] (1892–1982), cyclist who led the 1929 [[Tour de France]]
*[[Marguerite Broquedis]] (1893–1983), professional tennis player
*[[Robert Haillet]] (1931–2011), tennis player
*[[Éric Cayrolle]] (1962), racing driver
*[[Philippe Bernat-Salles]] (1970), former international rugby union footballer, French player
*[[Jérôme Garcès]] (1973), international rugby union referee
[[File:Tony Estanguet.jpg|thumb|[[Tony Estanguet]], triple Olympic slalom champion]]
*[[Patrice Estanguet]] (1973), sportsman, bronze medal in canoeing (slalom) at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996
*[[Stéphane Augé]] (1974), cyclist
*[[Walter Lapeyre]] (1976), shooter
*[[Emmanuelle Sykora]] (1976), former football player, who played for [[Olympique Lyonnais (Ladies)|Olympique Lyonnais]] (to 2005) and France's football team (to 2004, 81 CAPs)
*[[Jean Bouilhou]] (1978), Rugby Union footballer
*[[Édouard Cissé]] (1978), professional footballer
*[[Tony Estanguet]] (1978), Olympic champion slalom canoeist in 2000, 2004 and 2012, President of the [[2024 Summer Olympics|Paris 2024]] Olympic Organizing Committee
*[[Sébastien Chabbert]] (1978), footballer
*[[Cédric Gracia]] (1978), [[mountain biking|mountain biker]]
*[[Laurent Cazenave]] (1978), racing driver
*[[Lucas Lasserre]] (1978), racing driver
*[[Damien Traille]] (1979), Rugby Union player
*[[Julien Cardy]] (1981), footballer
*[[Mathieu Ladagnous]] (1984), cyclist
*[[Mike Parisy]] (1984), racing driver
*[[Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet]] (1984), professional Rugby Union player
*[[Jérémy Chardy]] (1987), tennis player
*[[Alexandra Lacrabère]] (1987), handball player
*[[Edwin Jackson (basketball)|Edwin Jackson]] (1989), professional basketball player
*[[Luc Louves]], basketball player

=== People who died in Pau ===
[[File:Henri d'Albret.jpg|thumb|[[Henry II of Navarre]], 1550]]
*[[Henry II of Navarre]] (1503–1555), nicknamed ''Sangüesino'', the King of Navarre from 1517.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Henry II. of Navarre |volume = 13 |last= |first= |author-link= |page=293 |short=1}}</ref>
*{{Ill|Guillaume Dauture|fr}} (1770–1820), general of the armies of the Republic and the Empire
*[[Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk]] FRS FRSE (1771–1820), a Scottish peer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of |volume = 24 |last= |first= |author-link= |pages=611-612 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Jean-Jacques Ampère]] (1800–1864), philologist and man of letters.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Ampère, Jean Jacques |volume = 1 |last= |first= |author-link= |page=879 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Sir James Outram]] (1803–1863), British officer
*[[Eugène Devéria]] (1805–1865), painter
*[[Pierre Lanfrey]] (1828–1877), historian and politician.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Lanfrey, Pierre |volume = 16 |last= |first= |author-link= |pages=170-171 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Caroline Duprez]] (1832–1875), soprano
*[[Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso]] (1838–1908), a Spanish politician, president of the [[First Spanish Republic]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Salmeron y Alfonso, Nicolas |volume = 24 |last= |first= |author-link= |pages=81-82 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre]] (1842–1909), occultist
*[[Philippe Tissié]] (1852–1935), medical officer of health
*[[Mrs. Patrick Campbell]] (1865–1940), English actress
*Princess [[Zekiye Sultan]] (1872–1950), daughter of Ottoman sultan [[Abdulhamid II]]
*[[Muhammad VII al-Munsif|Moncef Bey]] (1881–1948), former [[List of Beys of Tunis|Bey of Tunis]] (1942–1943)
*{{Ill|André Labarrère|fr}} (1928–2006), politician
*{{Ill|Geneviève Immè|fr}} (1929–2012), [[Contemporary Latin]] poet, honored by the [[Académie française]] as winner of the {{Interlanguage link|Prix Théophile-Gautier|fr}} in 1992
*{{Ill|Pierre Tucoo-Chala|fr}} (1924–2015), historian

=== Others ===
[[File:EmirAbdelKader.jpg|thumb|The emir [[Abd el-Kader]], Algerian political and military leader]]
*The emir [[Abdelkader El Djezairi|Abd el-Kader]] (1808–1883), was imprisoned in the castle of Pau in 1848
*[[Mary Todd Lincoln]] (1818–1882), lived in Pau between 1876 and 1880. She was the widow of American President [[Abraham Lincoln]].
*[[Henry Russell (explorer)|Henry Russell]] (1834–1909), buried there
*[[Comte de Lautréamont|Isidore Ducasse]], Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), (author of ''[[Les Chants de Maldoror]]'') studied there
*{{Interlanguage link|Louis Guédy|fr}} (1847–1926), French painter, settled here during the end of the 19th century
*[[Louis Barthou]] (1862–1934), politician, lived in Pau
*[[Saint-John Perse]] (1887–1975), real name Alexis Saint-Léger lived here from 1899 to 1906, where he was a student at [[Lycée Louis-Barthou]]
*[[Dornford Yates]] (1885–1960), pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer lived here from 1922 to 1940
*[[Joseph Peyré]] (1892–1968), winner of the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1935, native of [[Aydie]], educated at the Lycée de Pau (1900–1907), taught there, and was lawyer for a time at the bar of Pau
*{{Interlanguage link|Hubert Dubedout|fr}} (1922–1986), Mayor of [[Grenoble]] between 1965 and 1983, lived there
*[[Pierre Bourdieu]] (1930–2002), sociologist, who studied there
*[[Guy Debord]] (1931–1994), (author of ''[[The Society of the Spectacle]]'') lived there in the 1940s
*[[Djamila Boupacha]] (1938), FLN combatant, imprisoned there in 1962 shortly before Independence was reached in Algeria<ref>Simone de Beauvoir and Giséle Halimi, Djamila Boupacha: The Story of the Torture of a Young Algerian Girl Which Shocked Liberal French Opinion, trans. Peter Green, First American Edition (New York: The Macmillian Company, 1962)</ref>
*[[Henri Emmanuelli]] (1945), politician, studied there
*[[François Bayrou]] (1951): municipal councillor of the city of Pau from 1983 to 1993 and then from 2008 to 2014, as well as president of the {{Interlanguage link|Conseil départemental des Pyrénées-Atlantiques|fr}} from 1992 to 2001. Bayrou is the current mayor of Pau, his birthplace was [[Bordères]]
*[[Daniel Balavoine]] (1952–1986), native of [[Bizanos]], studied there
*[[Léopold Eyharts]] (1957), astronaut, studied there
*[[Jean-Michel Aphatie]] (1958), reporter for [[Canal+ (French TV channel)|Canal+]] and [[RTL (French radio)|RTL]] holds a master's degree from the Law University of Pau.
*[[Frédéric Beigbeder]] (1965), spent part of his childhood in Pau, living in the ''Villa Navarra'', the family home was sold in 2002<ref name="Pays basque" />
*{{Interlanguage link|Wilfrid Lupano|fr}} (1971), [[comic book]] writer, lives in Pau
*[[Léo Quievreux]] (1971), comic book writer, lives in Pau as of 2022<ref name=hb>{{cite web | title=Léo Quievreux – Spécimens – Exhibition | website=Huberty & Breyne | date=25 February 2022 | url=http://hubertybreyne.com/en/exhibitions/presentation/502/specimens | access-date=16 June 2022}}</ref>
*{{Interlanguage link|Michaël Gregorio|fr}} (1984), spent his childhood in Pau