People from Fontenay-le-Comte

Jules Allix (9 September 1818 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée – 1st September 1903 in Paris) was a feminist, socialist, political activist and eccentric inventor. A communard, he was mayor of the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

Jamy Gourmaud (French pronunciation: [ʒami ɡuʁmo], born 17 January 1964) is a journalist well known from the educational TV show C'est pas sorcier that he presented with Frédéric Courant and Sabine Quindou and was produced by the channel France 3 from 1993 until 2014.
He was born in Fontenay-le-Comte and graduated from the Institut Pratique de Journalisme in 1988. A year later, he travelled the countries of Eastern Europe with his camera to shoot documentaries and news reports including one on maternity wards in Romania which, upon his return to France in 1989, earned him the prize of the Young Reporter Festival d'Angers. After working in print media and radio, he joined the team of "Fractales" on the channel France 3 in 1992. From September 1993 until 2014 he was author and presenter of the science magazine C'est Pas Sorcier. In 1998, he designed and presented the 26' d'arrêt.
Since September 2000 he has been a columnist on the scientific program "Pourquoi ? Comment ?" on France 3 and analyzes the news on the show Focus. In 2008 Jamy worked with specialists on topics such as memory or sleep and co-presented Le Lauréat de l’Histoire with Stéphane Bern on the channel France 3 and primetime Incroyables Expériences with Tania Young on France 2.Asteroid 23877 Gourmaud was named after him.

Michel Crépeau (30 October 1930, Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée – 30 March 1999, Paris) was a French centre-left politician.
Born in 1930, barrister, he joined the Radical Party. When it split in 1972, he founded the Movement of Left Radicals (MRG) which chosen the alliance with the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party. Elected Mayor of La Rochelle in 1971, and Member of French National Assembly representing of Charente Maritime département in 1973, he kept these terms until his death in 1999.
MRG candidate in the 1981 presidential election, he obtained 2.2% of votes in the first round, then he called to vote for François Mitterrand in the second round. He became his Environment Minister from 1981 to 1983, then his Trade and Craft Industry Minister from 1983 to 1986. When Robert Badinter was nominated President of the Constitutional Council, in February 1986, he succeeded him as Justice Minister but the Left lost the legislative election one month later and, consequently, he was forced to resign.
Michel Crépeau died in Paris on 30 March 1999, after a heart attack which had arisen few days earlier during a parliamentary session of the National Assembly.