Editing Saint-Omer (section)

==Notable people==
* Omer, ou Audomarus ou Audemer{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} (600 – † 670), monk, named bishop of Therouanne, canonised under the name of Saint Omer
* Lambert (late 11th – early 11th century), canon of Saint-Omer, author of the ''Liber floridus''
* [[Godfrey de Saint-Omer]], founding member of the Knights Templar in 1118<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barber |first=Malcolm |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26807179 |title=The new knighthood : a history of the Order of the Temple |date=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-42041-5 |location=Cambridge [England] |oclc=26807179}}</ref>
* [[Charles Blondin]] (28 February 1824 – 22 February 1897), tightrope walker and acrobat
* [[Hippolyte Carnot]] (1801–1888), statesman
* [[Antoine Davion]] (c. 1664–1726), Mississippi missionary, 1698–1725
* [[Joseph Liouville]] (1809–1882), mathematician
* [[Robert Parsons (Jesuit)|Robert Parsons]] (1546–1610), Jesuit founder of the English Jesuit College of Saint-Omer<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767817698930|title='The strictest, orderlyest, and best bredd in the world': Students at the English Jesuit College at Saint-Omer, 1593–1762|first=Maurice|last=Whitehead|date=July 1, 2017|journal=Cahiers Élisabéthains|volume=93|issue=1|pages=33–49|via=SAGE Journals|doi=10.1177/0184767817698930|s2cid=194448630}}</ref>
* [[Jean Titelouze]] (c. 1562/3–1633), organist and composer, first composer of the [[French organ school]]
* [[Claude Dausque]] (1566–1644), humanist, scholar and canon of Tournai, considered one of the most erudite men of his time
* {{Ill|Françoise de Saint-Omer|fr}} (1581–1642), founder of the religious order of reformed Capucins
* [[Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny]] (1729–1817), composer
* [[Daniel Carroll]] (22 July 1730 in Upper Marlboro – 4 May 1796 in Rock Creek, Maryland), one of the founders of the United States; he was one of the only Catholics to sign the Constitution of the United States. He had studied at the English Jesuit College of Saint Omer.
* [[John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)|John Carroll]] (born 8 January 1735 in Upper Marlboro, England – 3 December 1815 in Baltimore), an American Jesuit priest who had studied at the English Jesuit College in Saint Omer. He was the 1st bishop in the United States (the diocese of Baltimore) and he founded Georgetown University.
* [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]] (19 September 1737 – 14 November 1832), delegate to the Continental Congress, senator from Maryland. He was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. Like his cousins, he also studied at the Jesuit College in Saint Omer.
* {{Ill|Albert Louis Valentin Taviel|fr}} (1767–1831), born in Saint-Omer, died in Paris, he was a general of the French Revolution and of the Empire.
* [[Pierre Alexandre Joseph Allent]] (1772–1837), born in Saint Omer, he was a general of the French Revolution and of the Empire.
* {{Ill|Martin Charles Gobrecht|fr|Martin Gobrecht}} (1772–1845), born in Cassel (Flanders) and died in Saint-Omer, he was a general of the French Revolution and of the Empire.
* {{Ill|Eustache-Louis-Joseph Toulotte|fr}} (1773–1860), French revolutionary and writer
* {{Ill|Eugène Casimir Lebreton|fr}} (1791–1876), born in Saint Omer, he served in the French army under the 1st Empire and later became a politician.
* [[Joseph Bienaimé Caventou]] (born 1795 in Saint-Omer, died 1887 in Paris), chemist, pharmacist, co-discoverer of quinine
* Émile Lefranc (27 August 1798 – 18..), born in Saint-Omer. Historian, geographer and author of school books. He was an associate professor at the university and also translated from ancient Greek into French and wrote in Latin.
* [[Hippolyte Carnot|Lazare Hippolyte Carnot]] (6 April 1801 – 16 March 1888 in Paris), French politician, born in Saint-Omer.
* [[Louis Noël]] (9 February 1807 in Saint-Pierre-lez-Calais – 18 February 1875 in Saint-Omer), sculptor
* {{Ill|Alfred Frédéric Philippe Auguste Napoléon Ameil|fr}} (8 November 1807 – 27 March 1886 in Versailles), major general in the French army, born in Saint-Omer.
* {{Ill|Louis Martel (politician)|fr|Louis Martel (homme politique, 1813-1892)}} (13 September 1813 in Saint-Omer – 4 March 1892 in Évreux), president of the Senate in France, minsute of Justice
* Louis-François-Joseph Deschamps de Pas (25 June 1816 in Saint-Omer – 1 March 1890 in the same city), engineer and archaeologist. He published several important works concerning the archaeology in and around Saint Omer.
* [[François Chifflart]] (25 March 1825 in Saint-Omer – 19 March 1901 in Paris), painter, illustrator and etcher
* [[Alphonse de Neuville]] (31 May 1836 – 18 May 1885), painter. He was a student of Delacroix.
* [[Alexandre Ribot]] (7 February 1842 in Saint Omer – 13 January 1923 in Paris), statesman, four times [[List of Prime Ministers of France|prime minister]]
* [[Tanguy Malmanche]] (7 September 1875 – 20 March 1953), French writer involved in the revival of Breton culture
* [[Éric Morena]] (27 October 1951 – 16 November 2019)[1], French singer. He was born in Saint-Omer and was made famous by his 1987 hit "Oh ! Mon bateau".
* [[Raoul Castex]]  (27 October 1878 in Saint-Omer – 10 January 1968 in Villeneuve-de-Rivière), French Navy admiral and a military theorist. Founder of the IHEDN (Institut des hautes études de défense nationale).
* [[Germaine Acremant]] (1889–1986), writer, notable for her work ''Ces dames aux chapeaux vert''
* Robert Ficheux (ro) (1898–2005), French historian and geographer, born in Saint-Omer. Les Palmes Académiques (17 October 1998).
* {{Ill|Jean-Pierre Évrard|fr}}, photographer, born in 1936 in Saint Omer, whose works ar notable for being exclusively in black and white<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jp-evrardfoto.com/bio|title=Jean-Pierre Evrard Photographe|website=www.jp-evrardfoto.com}}</ref> on paper
* [[Max Méreaux]], composer, born in Saint Omer in 1946<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musimem.com/mereaux.htm|title=Max Méreaux|website=www.musimem.com}}</ref>