Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is a region with a strong scientific and industrial culture. Many famous people were born or lived in the region, often the origin of a powerful industry.
Some examples:
- Adolphe and Eugène Schneider, appointed head of the company “Schneider frères et Cie métallurgiste du Creusot” in 1936
- Armand Peugeot, born in Valentigney in 1849, industrial
- Auguste and Louis Lumière, born in 1862 and 1864 in Besançon, inventors in the fields of photography and cinema
- Colette, born in 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, writer
- Claude Lorius, born in 1932 in Besançon, glaciologist
- Claudie Haigneré, born in 1953 in Creusot, doctor, biologist and astronaut
- Eugène Péclet, born in 1793 in Besançon, physicist
- Frédéric Japy, born in 1749 near Montbéliard, in Beaucourt, clockmaker
- Gustave Eiffel, born in Dijon in 1832, engineer-builder
- Hilaire de Chardonnet, born in Besançon in 1839, scientific and industrial engineer, inventor of artificial silk
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, born in 1768 in Auxerre, mathematician and physicist
- Lazare Carno, born in Nolay in 1753, mathematician, physicist, general and French politician
- Louis Vuiton, born in 1821 in Chabouilla in the Jura, engineer designer
- Nicéphore Niepce, born in 1765 in Chalon-sur-Saône, inventor of photography
- Louis Pasteur, born in Dole in 1822, biologist
- Pierre Vernier, born in 1580 in Ornans, mathematician
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, born in 1809 in Besançon, sociologist and philosopher
- Paul Bert, born in 1833 in Auxerre, doctor, physiologist and politician
- Paul-Emile Victor, born in the Jura in 1907, polar explorer
- Sébastien Vauban, born in 1633 in Saint-Léger-de-Foucheret, architect and engineer
- Victor Hugo, born in Besançon in 1802, novelist
- and many others …..