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Here a list (nonexhaustive) of personalities born or having passed a notable part of their life with Turns.

François Rabelais
Ronsard (1524-1585).
Honorat de Bueil, marquis de Racan (1589 - 1670).
Alfred de Vigny
A.D.G. (Alain Fournier known as), novelist of Black series , born in Tours on December 19th, 1947.
Frederic the Clerk (1810-1891), author of the Texas and his revolution , doctor-in-chief of the hospital of Turns, wire of Louis-Rene-Luc Leclerc, but raised by Pierre Bretonneau.
Honore de Balzac was born to with it the May 29th 1799.
Georges Courteline was born to with it the June 25th 1858.
Rene Boylesve was born with $the Hague - Descartes the April 14th 1867, and attended the Lycée Descartes Turns.
Red Jacques-Marie, folklorist, conservative-assistant of the public library before 1940.
Yves Bonnefoy, poet born in Tours in 1923.
Philippe Néricault Destouches, dramatic author, born in Tours in 1680, died in * Villiers-in-Beer in 1754.
Philippe de Trobriand, author and general during the American Civil War, born in Tours in 1816, died in 1897.
Bernard of Turns, philosopher and poet, born in Tours about 1147, died before 1178).
Michel-Georges Micberth, born in Tours the August 12th 1945, editor, lampoonist and writer.
Henri Bergson, philosopher French (Paris 1859 - 1941), Nobel Prize Literature 1927, lived in Touraine.
Francis Hurdy-gurdy-Griffin, writer, born with Norfolk in 1863, died in Bergerac in 1937.
Paul-Louis Courier
Anatole France
Jules Romans
Paul Nizan

Sinclair Singer born in Tours the July 19th 1970.
Rubin Steiner
Nâdiya, French singer, who was born and lived her childhood with Tours.
Francis Poulenc, type-setter French (Paris 1899 - 1963), lived in Touraine, Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours.
Gerard Blanchard
Amel Bent, French singer

Victor Laloux, architect who built the station of Orsay (become Musée of Orsay), the Gare of Turns, the Town hall of Turns, the basilica Saint Martin's day (style néo-Byzantine) and the Grand Theater of Turns.
Michel Dove, French sculptor (Berry or Bourbonnais v. 1430 - Turns v. 1513).
Jean Fouquet, painter and miniaturist French (Turns, v. 1415/1420 - Turns, between 1478/1481); Master of the School of Turns.
Alexander Calder, American sculptor (Philadelphia 1898 - New York 1976), who worked much with Saché.
Abraham Bump, engraver and theorist of French art, born in Tours in 1604, died in Paris in 1676).
François Clouet, painter born with Turns about 1515.
Olivier Debré, painter
Louise of Vallière, favorite of Louis XIV, 1644-1710

Bernard Lama, former footballer, born in the Saint-Symphorien-on-Loire (Turns) in 1963.
Alphonse Joseph Alexis Baugé, racing cyclist, publicity agent, journalist, sport director, was born to with it in 1873.
Woodland Mickaël French international footballer, evolves/moves in Manchester United (GB)
Stephan and Wilfried Dalmat, both footballers professional
Patrick Vieira attended the benches of the Grandmont college before integrated football club of turns, professional, world champion 1998, champion of Europe 2000.
Xavier Gravelaine
Michael Milon, karate expert
Frederic Magné, racing cyclist
Jerome Clavier, pole vaulter

Felix Dujardin (Turns 1801 - Rennes 1860): French naturalist, it in particular described the cellular Cytoplasme.
Armand Bracing (1838-1906), architect, in particular creative of the station from Lyon to Paris.
Gabriel Lamé, mathematician born in Tours in 1795, died in 1870.
Yves Chauvin, Nobel Prize of chemistry in 2005.

Pierre Bretonneau, doctor-in-chief of the hospital of Turns.
Louis-Rene-Luc Leclerc, doctor-in-chief of the hospital of Turns.
Alfred Louis Armand Velpeau (1797 - 1863).
Armand Trousseau was born to with it the November 15th 1850.
Frederic the Clerk (1810-1891), was born in Tours.
Philippe Maupas (1939 - 1981) and his team of the Medical college of Turns discovered the vaccine of the Hépatite B in 1975.

Julien Roy, clock and watch maker of the XVIIIe century, born in Tours in 1686. It improved the compensator of the pendulums and invented public the clocks known as " horizontales".

Emile Delahaye, car manufacturer, founder of the mark Delahaye, born in Tours in 1843, died in 1905.
Family Mame, printer.

Holy Martin, (Hungary, v 315 - Candes, Indre-et-Loire, 397), bishop of Turns in 370 or 371, founder of many monasteries of which Ligugé and Marmoutier, owner of France.
Gregoire de Tours, saint, prelate and historian French (Clermont-Ferrand v 538 - Turns v. 594), Bishop of Turns (573-594), played a great part in the political life of the Gaulle; celebrate by its Histoire of the Francs .
Alcuin, erudite Anglo-Saxon monk (York v. 735 - Turns 804) one of the palatine schoolmasters founded by Charlemagne; founder with the abbey Saint Martin's day de Tours of an academy of philosophy and called theology “mother of the University”.
Berenger of Turns, theologist born in Tours in 999, died in Tours in 1088.
Marie of the Incarnation, born in Tours the October 28th 1599.
Andre Vingttrois, Archbishop of Paris since February 11th, 2005, old

Archbishop of Turns (1999-2005), born in 1942 in Paris.

François Pallu, born in Tours in 1626, one of the three founders of the Foreign missions of Paris.

Dominique Bussereau, born in Tours the July 13rd 1952, Secretary of State to transport.
Didier Migaud (1952-), born with Tours, deputy PS of Isere
Camille Chautemps, former mayor of Turns, former president of the Council.
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, city council man of Turns since 2001, former minister for the Culture and the Communication.
Alexandre Gouin (1792 - 1872), banker and politician French, deputy of Turns under the Monarchy of July and the Second Empire, then senator, Minister for Agriculture and the Trade in the second ministry Thiers (1840).
Jean Royer, former mayor of Turns (1959-1995), former minister.
Guillaume Peltier, number 2 of MPF
German Jean

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