1954 births

Gilles Savary (born 6 December 1954 in Oradour-sur-Vayres, Haute-Vienne) is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France.

Patrice Franceschi (born December 18, 1954, in Toulon) is a French adventurer.
Franceschi is also a writer, a documentary & film maker, a sailor and a pilot. He has been awarded several medals and distinctions. Patrice Franceschi was also at the origins of many humanitarian missions in war zones (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kurdistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc.). He is former chairman of the Société des Explorateurs Français, and former chairman and co-founder of Solidarités International.
Franceschi is the captain of the 3-masted schooner La Boudeuse, aiming at scientific expeditions related to social evolutions and climate change matters. He is most famous for being the first man to carry a solo around-the-world flight in an Aviasud Sirocco ultralight aeroplane from September 26, 1984, to March 26, 1987. Following this tour of 2+1⁄2 years (562 hours of flight, across 33 countries), he wrote a book recounting his expedition: La folle équipée.He also took part in many expeditions, including the project The Spirit of Bougainville, whose first ship La Boudeuse (a Chinese junk, thirty meters long), sank 130 miles east of Malta.
He is the author of numerous books and has directed several films from his expeditions.

Philippe Manœuvre (born 19 June 1954) is a French music journalist.
He has been a radio and television presenter, specialized in rock music. He has been editor-in-chief for the magazine Métal Hurlant and was the editor-in-chief of the music monthly Rock & Folk. from 1993 to 2017. Since 2008, he was member of the jury of a reality show called Nouvelle Star on M6.

Philippe Manœuvre (born 19 June 1954) is a French music journalist.
He has been a radio and television presenter, specialized in rock music. He has been editor-in-chief for the magazine Métal Hurlant and was the editor-in-chief of the music monthly Rock & Folk. from 1993 to 2017. Since 2008, he was member of the jury of a reality show called Nouvelle Star on M6.

Thierry Jonquet (French: [tjɛʁi ʒɔ̃kɛ]; 19 January 1954 – 9 August 2009) was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as Tarantula in 2005 (Serpent's Tail). He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
Jonquet died aged 55 in hospital in Paris.Tarantula was filmed by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, under the title The Skin I Live In, which was entered in competition in May 2011 for the Cannes Film Festival.

Odile Jacob is a French publisher who founded Les Éditions Odile Jacob in the middle of the 1980s. She is also a trained scientist, studying the workings of the brain, the mind and thought. She is a member of Le Siècle.

Daniel Goossens, born 16 May 1954 in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône is a French comics artist.

Frédéric Cottier (born 5 February 1954) is a French equestrian and Olympic medalist. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He won a bronze medal in show jumping at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Groupe SEB.

Jocelyne Béroard (born 12 September 1954) is a Martinican singer and songwriter. She is one of the lead singers of the Zouk and Compas band Kassav'. As a solo artist, she helped create zouk Beton, a music genre originated by the seminal Martinican Creole band Kassav' from Paris, the main members of which are from Guadeloupe and Martinique.