operatic singer, actress, playwright and dancer. Albert Guille (1854-1914), operatic tenor Marie Grisier-Montbazon (1859−1922), a French actress and singer. Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), composer, organist, and ornithologist Jean-Claude Malgoire (1940–2018), oboist and later conductor. Mireille Mathieu (born 1946), singer Christophe Rousset (born 1961), harpsichordist and conductor of Baroque music Peste Noire (formed 1982), a black metal band Science & Business Procopius Waldvogel (15th C.), a medieval printer and silversmith by trade. Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632–1712), geographer and cartographer Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/1640 – 1710), fur trader and explorer Esprit Pézenas (1692–1776), Jesuit astronomer, hydrographer and mathematician Honoré Blanc (1736–1801), gunsmith, pioneered the use of interchangeable parts. Yves Delage (1854–1920), zoologist, worked on invertebrate physiology and anatomy. Christine Ourmières-Widener (born 1964), CEO of TAP Air Portugal. Public service & the Church Pope Gregory XI (ca.1329 – 1378), the seventh and last Avignon pope. Francis Lambert (ca.1486 – 1530), a Protestant reformer. Georges d'Armagnac (ca.1501 – 1585), humanist, patron of arts, Cardinal and diplomat Alexandre de Rhodes (1591–1664), Jesuit missionary. Chevalier de Folard (1669–1752), soldier and military theorist, championed infantry columns Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon (1717–1796), Captain general of the Army. Étienne-Antoine Boulogne (1747–1825), cleric, Bishop of Troyes, 1809-1825. Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas (1771–1839), antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat Joseph Agricol Viala (1778–1793), child hero in the French Revolutionary Army, killed aged 15 John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873 in Avignon), an English philosopher, political economist and MP; he is buried in the local cemetery. Édouard Daladier (1884–1970), politician and 3 x pre-war Prime Minister of France Bernard Kouchner (born 1939), politician, co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières Edmond Alphandéry (born 1943), politician, public-sector company executive Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945–2016), a Catalan economist and academic Writing Bertran Folcon d'Avignon (fl. 1202–1233), a Provençal nobleman, troubadour and poet Abraham Farissol (ca.1451 – ca.1525), a Jewish-Italian geographer, cosmographer, scribe and polemicist. Marianne-Agnès Falques (1720-1785), author of romance novels and other topical writing Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890), journalist, critic and man of letters. Henri Bosco (1888-1976), writer, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Pierre Boulle (1912-1994), author of the novels: The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes René Girard (1923–2015), polymath, historian, literary critic and philosopher of social science Daniel Arsand (born 1950), writer and publisher Mazarine Pingeot (born 1974), writer, journalist and associate Professor of philosophy at the Paris 8 University and daughter of former French President