People from Albi

Albert Rieux (6 October 1914 – 15 April 1983) was a French stage and film actor.

Admiral Constant Louis Jean Benjamin Jaurès (3 February 1823 – 13 March 1889) was a French Navy officer and politician. Born in Albi, Tarn, he was a senator for life and active in Japan during the 1863 Shimonoseki campaign and the Boshin War. He became Minister of the Navy and Colonies on 22 February 1889, in the government of Pierre Tirard. The famous French politician, Jean Jaurès, was his nephew.

Gérard Onesta (born 5 August 1960) is a French politician and was Member of the European Parliament for the South West of France.
He is a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens, part of the European Greens. On 20 July 2004 he was re-elected a Member of the European Parliament, and he was elected four times one of its Vice-Presidents. His successor is José Bové.
In March 2010 regional election, he is the leader of Europe Écologie–The Greens in Midi-Pyrénées.
Onesta defines himself as a European federalist, with strong proclivities for regionalism.