Artists

• Jack Beng-Thi, sculptor
• Olivier Appollodorus, artist, designer
• Serge Huo-Chao-Si
  Serge Huo-Chao-Si
  Serge Huo-Chao-Si is a contemporary artist and comic book creator.-Early life:Serge Huo-Chao-Si studied in Saint-Denis, Réunion and in Lille, and graduated in mechanical engineering from high school on his native island....
  
  , artist, designer, engineer
• Jace, artist
• Li-An, artist
• Renaud Mader, artist
• Blanche Pierson, artist
• Henri Malliot-Rosély, artist
• Enzo Mayo, artist
• Antoine Roussin, artist
• Alain Séraphine, artist
• Téhem, artist
• Wilhiam Zitte, multi-media artist
• Gilbert Clain, sculptor
• Helne Cor, multi-media artist
• Mickael Elma, painter
• Dominique Ficot, painter and multi-media artist
• Francois Giraud, artist
• Jean-Marc Grenier, photographer
• Alain Louis Padeau, multi-media artist
• Eric Pongerard, sculptor
• Raymond Barthes, photographer
• Jack Damien Beng-Thi, multi-media artist

Musicians

• Maxime Laope
• Léon Céleste
• Henri Madoré
• Ti Fock
• Abou
• Aim'a nou, musical group
• Alain Peters
• Apolonia
• Baster
  Baster
  The Basters are the descendants of Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous African women. They largely live in Namibia and are similar to Coloured or Griqua people in South Africa....
  
  
• Canasuc
• Créolie
• Cyclon
• Danyel Waro
• Ekzeko
• El Diablo
• Fenoamby
• Firmin Viry
• Free Jam
• Gondwana, musical group
• Granmoun Lélé
• Jules Arlanda
• Kayambe
• Kiltir, Creole-cultured musical group
• Kom'Zot
• Kultur Bourbon
• Leilla Negrau
• Luc Donat
• Mafane
• Manleo
• Maperine
• Marlene
  Marlene
  Marlene may refer to:* Marlene * Marlene * Marlene , people with the given name Marlene* "Marlene", a song by Todd Rundgren from the album Something/Anything?...
  
  
• Mascareignas
• Message Roots, musical group
• Naessayé
• Nathalie Natiembe
• Natty Dread Reunion
• Olivier Rebecca
• Patrick Persee
• Paykan
  Paykan
  ]The Paykan was an automobile produced by the Iranian company Iran Khodro Industrial Group. The car was very popular in Iran from the late 1960s to the late 1990s...
  
  
• Progression
  Progression
  Progression may refer to:In mathematics:* Arithmetic progression, sequence of numbers such that the difference of any two successive members of the sequence is a constant...
  
  , musical group
• Racine Des Iles, musical group
• Raggastyle

• Ravan'
• René Lacille
• Rob's Phil
• Sabiah
• Salem Tradition, musical group
• Tapok
• Ti Fred
• Tonton David
  Tonton David
  Tonton David is a French Reggae singer born in Réunion with a turbulent childhood in a suburb of Paris. He left his family at 14, and managed to make a career in music with powerful and political lyrics.-References:...
  
  
• Vyin Bougé
• Zantak
• Zarboutan
• Ziskakan, musical group
• Gilbert Aubrey, musician, poet
• Gérald De Palmas
  Gérald De Palmas
  Gérald De Palmas is a French singer.-Early life:His father was a land surveyor from Britanny, France and his mother was a French teacher from Réunion. At the age of 10, De Palmas' family left Réunion, to live in Aix-en-Provence, France...
  
  
• Georges Fourcade
• Célimène Gaudieux
• Thierry Gauliris
• Anne-Laure Girbal
• Granmoun Bébé
• Françoise Guimbert
• Gilbert Pounia
• Davy Sicard
• Benoite Boulard
• Loulou Pitou
• Faf Larage
• Idjeyd
• Olivier Ker Ourio
  Olivier Ker Ourio
  Olivier Ker Ourio is a jazz musician of Breton ancestry known for playing Chromatic harmonica. He has worked with Bruce Arnold, Franck Amsallem and David Kikoski among others. He has also shown an interest in Creole music and Celtic music.-References:...
  
  
• Shurik'N
• Ousanousava, musical group
• Benjam
• Pat' Jaunes
• Joel Manglou
• Pierrot Vidot, composer

Poets

• Chante Albany
• Jean Albany
• Jean-Henri Azéma
• Jacques Baratier
• Antoine Bertin
• Alain Bled
• Pierre Chassagne
• Léon Dierx
  Leon Dierx
  Léon Dierx was a French poet born in the island of La Réunion in 1838. He came to Paris to study at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures and subsequently settled there, taking up a post in the education office. He became a disciple of Leconte de Lisle and one of the most distinguished of...
  
  
• Agathe Eristov
• Boris Gamaleya
• François Hennequet
• Daniel Honoré
• Danny Jacot
• Claire Karm
• Auguste Lacaussade
• Daniel Lauret
• Marius et Ary Leblond
• Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
• Christian Millot
• Évariste de Forges de Parny
  Évariste de Forges de Parny
  Évariste Desiré de Forges, vicomte de Parny in Paris) was a French poet.- Biography :...
  
  
• Jean Valentin Payet
• Sonny Rupaire
• Claude Schratzenberger
• Patrice Treuthardt

Politicians

• Louis Henri Hubert Delisle, politician
• Gilbert Annette, politician
• Bertho Audifax, politician
• Raphaël Babet, politician
• Huguette Bello
  Huguette Bello
  Huguette Bello is a politician from Réunion and a member of the Reunionese Communist Party .She is a deputy in the French National Assembly where she sits in the Gauche démocrate et républicaine parliamentary group, which includes the Greens, the French Communist Party and other left-wing...
  
  , politician
• Alain Bénard, politician
• Marcel Cerneau, politician
• Ibrahim Dindar
  Ibrahim Dindar
  Ibrahim David Dindar is a French politician from the island of Réunion. A Muslim, he is married to Nassimah Dindar, the president of the island's general council, and serves as its vice-president...
  
  , politician
• Nassimah Dindar, politician
• Jean Fontaine, politician
• Jean-Claude Fruteau
  Jean-Claude Fruteau
  Jean-Claude Fruteau is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "outre mer"...
  
  , politician
• Claude Hoarau, politician
• Élie Hoarau, politician
• Gélita Hoarau, politician
• Jean-Louis Lagourgue, politician
• Pierre Lagourgue, politician
• Auguste Legros, politician
• Léon de Lepervanche, politician
• François Césaire de Mahy, politician
• Monique Orphé, politician
• Anne-Marie Payet, politician
• Christophe Payet, politician
• Jean-Luc Poudroux, politician
• Camille Sudre, politician
• Michel Tamaya, politician
• André Thien Ah Koon, politician
• Laurent Vergès, politician
• Michel Vergoz, politician
• Pierre Vergès, politician
• Marie Adolphe Raymond Vergès, politician
• René-Paul Victoria, politician
• Alexis de Villeneuve, politician
• Jean-Paul Virapoullé, politician
• Wilfried Bertile, politician
• Pierre Lagourgue, politician
• Paul Demange, prefect of Reunion
• Roland Luc Béchoff, prefect of Reunion
• Pierre Philip, prefect of Reunion
• Jean François Pierre Perreau-Pradier, prefect of Reunion
• Alfred Diefenbacher, prefect
• Jean Vaudeville, prefect
• Paul Cousseran, prefect
• Claude Edmond Vieillescazes, prefect
• Robert Lamy, prefect
• Bernard Landouzy, prefect
• Jacques Seval, prefect
• Michel Francis Levallois, prefect
• Michel Blangy, prefect
• Jean Anciaux, prefect
• Daniel Constantin
  Daniel Constantin
  Daniel Auguste Constantin , is a French colonial administrator.He was the préfet of Réunion from 1989 until 1991 and the high commissioner of New Caledonia from 31 July 2002 until September 2005.-References:...
  
  , prefect
• Jacques Dewatre, prefect
• Hubert Fournier
  Hubert Fournier
  Hubert Fournier is a French retired footballer. He is currently managing Stade de Reims. He formerly managed FC Gueugnon in 2008 and was an assistant coach at Stade de Reims from 2009 to 2010.-External links:...
  
  , prefect
• Pierre Steinmetz
  Pierre Steinmetz
  Pierre Steinmetz is a member of the Constitutional Council of France since 2004.-External links:...
  
  , prefect
• Robert Pommies, prefect
• Jean Daubigny, prefect
• Gonthier Friederici, prefect
• Dominique Vian
  Dominique Vian
  Dominique Vian is a French overseas departments administrator. He was prefect of French Guiana from February 1997 to August 1999, prefect of Guadeloupe from August 2002 to July 2004, and prefect of Réunion since August 2004.-References:...
  
  , prefect
• Laurent Cayrel, prefect
• Pierre-Henry Maccioni, current prefect
• Gélita Hoarau, senator
• Paul Moreau, senator
• Georges Repiquet, senator
• Albert Ramassamy, senator
• Éric Fruteau, mayor
• Daniel Gonthier, mayor
• Monica Govindin, mayor
• Jean-Claude Lacouture, mayor
• Jean-Yves Langenier, mayor
• François Léa, mayor
• Roland Robert, mayor
• Teddy Soret, mayor
• André-Paul Técher, mayor
• Daniel Tholozan, mayor
• Yvon Virapin-Kichenin, mayor
• Anatole Cabolémol, politician, mayor of l'Entre-Deux and Le Tampon
• Paul Vergès
  Paul Vergès
  Paul Vergès is a Réunionese politician. Vergès founded the Communist Party of Réunion in 1959, a party which he led until he retired in 1993...
  
  , regional president
• Margie Sudre
  Margie Sudre
  Margie Sudre is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "Outre-mer"....
  
  , politician

Writers

• Raphaël Barquisseau, writer, poet
• Eugène Dayot
• Hippolyte Foucque
• Georges Fourcade, writer, musician
• Axel Gauvin
• Alain Gili
• Jules Hermann, writer, poet
• Michel Houellebecq
  Michel Houellebecq
  Michel Houellebecq , born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1958—or 1956 —on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker and poet. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire;...
  
  , novelist
• Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
• Jean-Baptiste Renoyal de Lescouble
• Yves Manglou
  Yves Manglou
  200px|right|thumb|Yves Manglou, [[Paris]] 2006.Yves Manglou is a Réunionese writer who writes in both French and Réunion Creole.-Biography:...
  
  
• Daniel Vaxelaire
• Ambroise Vollard
  Ambroise Vollard
  Ambroise Vollard is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century...
  
  

Other notable people

• Keiiti Aki
  Keiiti Aki
  was a professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , seismologist, author and mentor. He co-authored with Paul G. Richards, "Quantitative Seismology: theory and methods".Aki was born in Yokohama, Japan...
  
  , professor, seismologist, author and mentor
• Edmond Albius
  Edmond Albius
  Edmond Albius was an important figure in the cultivation of vanilla. At the age of 12, he invented a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably. Albius's technique revolutionized the cultivation of vanilla and made it possible to profitably grow vanilla beans away from their...
  
  , slave who discovered how to fertilize vanillia
• Bao Vang
  Bao Vang
  Prince Bảo Vang of Vietnam, also known as Yves Claude Vinh-San, is the illegitimate son of Emperor Duy Tân. He was born in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island, April 8, 1934.-Nguyễn dynasty:...
  
   (Yves Claude Vinh-San), son of Emperor Duy Tân
• Valerie Berger, dancer and choreographer
• Roland Garros, war hero
• Gilbert Aubry
  Gilbert Aubry
  Gilbert Guillaume Marie-Jean Aubry is the Réunionnais Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion. Aubry has served as the Bishop of the diocese, which is based in the city of Saint-Denis, Réunion, since his appoinment on November 20, 1975.A native of Réunion, Aubry was...
  
  , Bishop of St-Denis
• Georges Guibert, Bishop of St-Denis
• Laurent Robert
  Laurent Robert
  Laurent Robert is a former French footballer. He was a left winger, and has played for the French national football team....
  
  , footballer
• Florent Sinama Pongolle, footballer

External links

• Afromix.org - Reunion Island: Music