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Arnulf of Valenciennes, lord of the fort of Valenciennes •
Louis Auvray (1810–1890), sculptor •
Louis Bailly (1881–1974), French-Canadian violist and music educator •
Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172–c.1205), first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople •
Yves Balmer (born 1978), French and Swiss composer •
Charles Barbier (1767–1841), inventor of several forms of
shorthand •
Émile Basly (1854–1928), trade unionist •
André Beauneveu (c.1335–c.1400), sculptor and painter •
Jean-Baptiste Bélanger (1790–1874), mathematician •
Yassin Ben Balla (born 1996), footballer •
Martin Berteau (1691–1771), cellist and composer •
Benjamin Berton (born 1974), writer •
Jean-Louis Borloo (born 1951), politician •
Alfred-Alphonse Bottiau (1889–1951), sculptor •
Eugène Bozza, (1905–1991), composer and violinist •
Hubert Cailleau (1526–1590), painter •
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875), sculptor, painter and tutor •
Louis Cattiaux (1904–1953), philosopher, painter and poet •
William Chambers (1809–1882), Welsh politician •
Bruno Chérier (1817–1880), decorative painter •
Bernard Chiarelli (born 1934), footballer •
Alphonse Chigot (1824–1917), historical painter, soldier and art tutor, particularly associated with the city of Valenciennes •
Eugène Chigot (1860–1923), post impressionist painter and official painter for the
Marine Nationale •
Gustave Crauck (1827–1905), sculptor and painter •
Louise d'Épinay (1726–1783), writer •
Jean d'Oisy (1310–1377), architect •
Philippe d'Outreman (1585–1652), Jesuit writer •
Gérald Darmanin (born 1982), politician •
Felipe-Emmanuel de Bette (1677–1742), soldier and noble from the Spanish Netherlands •
Philippe III de Croÿ (1526–1595), Stadtholder of Flanders •
Charles de Gaulle (1837–1880), poet •
Emanuel Philibert de Lalaing (1557–1590), noble and army commander •
Charles de Lannoy (c.1487–1527), soldier and statesman •
Giovanni de Macque (1548/1550–1614), composer •
Abel de Pujol (1785–1861), painter •
Jennifer de Temmerman (born 1977), politician •
Herman de Valenciennes, 12th-century poet •
Marc Antoine René de Voyer (1722–1787), diplomat and politician •
Patrick Defossez (born 1959), Belgian composer and pianist •
Laurent Degallaix (born 1965), politician •
Grégoire Delacourt (born 1960), advertiser and writer •
Marine Deleeuw (born 1994), model •
Bruno Deletré (born 1961), banker •
Jules Delsart (1844–1900), cellist •
Léon Delsarte {1893–1963), gymnast •
Yohan Demont (born 1978), footballer •
Béatrice Descamps (born 1951), politician •
Hyacinthe François Joseph Despinoy (1764–1848), general •
Félix-Alexandre Desruelles (1865–1943), sculptor •
Collingwood Dickson (1817–1904), British Army officer •
Arthur Dinaux (1795–1864), journalist •
Isabelle Dinoire (1967–2016), first person to undergo a partial face transplant •
Louis Dorus (1812–1896), classical flautist •
Pierre Dubois (born 1945), author •
Michel Duchaussoy (1938–2012), film actor •
Julie Dufour (born 2001), footballer •
Léon Dumont (1837–1877), psychologist and philosopher •
Geordan Dupire (born 1993), footballer •
Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel (1774–1846), soldier and entomologist •
François-Joseph Duret (1729–1816), sculptor •
Christophe Dussart (born 1976), footballer •
Victor Duvant (1889–1963), gymnast •
Martine Duvivier (born 1953), middle distance runner •
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720–1778), painter and engraver •
François Eisen, painter and engraver •
Lara Escudero (born 1993), ice hockey player •
Léon Fagel (1851–1913), sculptor •
Denis Flahaut (born 1978), road cyclist •
Henry of Flanders (c.1178–1216), Latin emperor of Constantinople •
Jean Froissart (1337–1405), historian and poet •
Albert Gazier (1908–1997), trade union leader and politician •
Bernard Gérard (born 1953), politician •
Jacques Gestraut (born 1939), cyclist •
Alfred Mathieu Giard (1846–1908), zoologist •
Valérie Gomez-Bassac (born 1969), politician •
Pierre Gossez (1928–2001), jazz musician •
René Guilleré (1878–1931), lawyer •
Isabella of Hainault (1170–1190), Queen of France as the first wife of
King Philip II •
Philippa of Hainault (1310/1315–1369),
Queen of England •
Marie of Hainaut (1280–1354), daughter of John II, Count of Holland and Philippa of Luxembourg •
Henri Harpignies (1819–1916), painter and watercolourist •
John Hay Drummond Hay (1816–1893), United Kingdom's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Morocco •
Henry VII (c. 1273–1313), Holy Roman Emperor •
Ernest-Eugène Hiolle (1834–1886), sculptor •
Georges Huisman (1889–1957), historian and politician •
Jérémie Janot (born 1977), footballer •
Jean-Baptiste Janson (1742–1803), cellist and composer •
Fabrice Jaumont, author, educator, advocate for
dual-language bilingual education •
Éric Joly (born 1972), footballer •
Catherine Kamowski (born 1958), politician •
Marie Kubiak (born 1981), footballer •
Edmond Marin la Meslée (1912–1945), fighter pilot in World War II •
Sofian Laidouni (born 1995), kickboxer •
Charles Joseph Lambert (1804–1864), explorer and engineer •
Bruno Lanvin (born 1954), business academic •
Joseph Layraud (1834–1912), painter •
Claude Le Jeune (1528 to 1530–1600), Franco-Flemish composer •
Olivier Le May (1734–1797), painter and engraver •
Jean-René Lecerf (born 1951), politician •
Violette Leduc (1907–1972), writer •
Jean Lefebvre (1919–2004), film actor •
Julien Leghait (born 1994), footballer •
Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire (1798–1880), sculptor •
Rosalie Levasseur (1749–1826), soprano •
Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin (1797–1873), entomologist •
Nathalie Lupino (born 1963), judoka •
Hélène Mannarino (born 1990), journalist, television, and radio presenter •
Julien Masson (born 1998), footballer •
Rudy Mater (born 1980), footballer •
Edma Morisot (1839–1921), artist •
Éric Mouquet (born 1960), musician •
Sarah Moussaddak (born 2000), kickboxer •
Freeman Murray (1804–1885), British Army general •
Christian Nau (1944–2022), land sailor and writer •
Frédéric Nihous (born 1967), politician •
Cécile Nowak (born 1967), judoka •
Charles Nungesser (1892–1927), ace pilot and adventurer •
Henri Parent (1819–1895), architect •
François Paris (born 1961), composer •
T. J. Parker (born 1984), basketballer •
Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736), painter •
Vendémiaire Pavot (1883–1929), sculptor •
Raymond Pech (1876–1952), composer •
Sylvie Pétiaux (1836–1919), feminist and pacifist •
Jane Pierny (1869–1913), soprano •
Marcel Pinte (1938–1944), member of the French Resistance •
Arnauld Pontier, writer •
Jacob Farrand Pringle (1816–1901), Canadian judge, soldier, and politician •
Joris Jansen Rapelje (1604–1662/63), member of the
Council of Twelve Men •
André Renard (1911–1962), Belgian trade union leader •
Léon Renard (1836–1916), politician •
Véronique Renties (born 1960), middle distance runner •
Pierre Richard (born 1934), actor, film director and screenwriter •
Léon Richet (1843–1907), landscape painter •
Dominique Riquet (born 1946), surgeon and politician •
Auguste Désiré Saint-Quentin (1838–1906), painter •
Jacques Saly (1717–1776), sculptor •
Rémi Sénéca (born 1995), rugby union player •
Elinor Sneshell, English
barber-surgeon •
Fred Soyez (born 1978), field hockey coach •
Jean Stablinski (1932–2007), cyclist •
Clément Tainmont (born 1986), footballer •
Fabien Thiémé (1952–2019), politician •
Théophile Tilmant (1799–1878), violinist •
Renier of Trit, knight from Trith-Saint-Léger, Hainaut •
Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737), Flemish-French painter •
Julia Wagret (born 1999), ice dancer •
Henri-Alexandre Wallon (1812–1904), historian and statesman •
Mallory Wanecque (born 2006), actress •
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), painter •
Louis Joseph Watteau (1731–1798), painter •
Robert Witchitz (1924–1944), volunteer soldier in the French liberation force •
Bruno Wojtinek (born 1963), racing cyclist •
Marguerite Porete (born 1258-1310), author of The Mirror of the Simple Souls. Considered heretical her book was burned in the Place d’Armes in Valenciennes in 1306. ==Sport==