Brignoles

Personalities

• Antoine Albalat, writer specialising in French literature.
• Saint Louis of Toulouse, bishop of Toulouse.
• François d'Arbaud de Porchères, poet born in Brignoles in 1590, died in Senevoy in 1640. Writer of numerous poems, he was made, in 1634, the first Immortel of the Académie française, to occupy seat 19.
• Louis Paul Baille, baron de Saint-Pol et de l'Empire, French soldier of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Amy Cissé, retired international basketball player.
• Manu Diaz, retired rugby union player.
• François Granet, man of letters.
• François Guisol, poet and author.
• Fabrice Hadjadj, philosopher and dramatist, teacher at the Lycée Sainte Jeanne d'Arc since 2002.
• Jean-Jacques Jauffret, French film director.
• Joseph-Louis Lambot, the inventor of ferro-cement which led to the development of reinforced concrete. His first construction was a boat made of cement which he tested on the lake at Besse-sur-Issole in 1848. The original prototype is preserved in the museum at Brignoles. This boat was patented on January 30, 1855 and presented at the 1855 World's Fair in Paris.
• Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer.
• Catherine Matausch, French journalist.
• Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor.
• René Morizur, French musician, died and buried in Brignoles.
• Victor Nicolas, French sculptor who created many monuments in the departments of Var and Alpes Maritimes.
• Joseph Parrocel, French painter.
• Christian Philibert, French film director and screenwriter.
• François-Juste-Marie Raynouard, writer born in Brignoles in 1761. A bust of him by the sculptor Victor Nicolas, is in the Place Saint Pierre and the Lycée de Brignoles carries his name.
• Adolphe Rossollin, poet.
• Patrick Valéry, retired footballer.

  Twin towns and sister cities

• Bruneck, Italy
• Groß-Gerau, Germany
• Szamotuły, Poland
• Tielt, Belgium