People from Lons-le-Saunier

Salomé Stévenin (born 29 January 1985) is a French actress. She began her acting career at the age of 3 when she appeared alongside her father in the film Peaux des Vaches ("Thick Skinned") in 1989. Her recent appearances include the 2002 television film Clara cet été là (Clara's Summer) and Douches froides (Cold Showers) in 2005 for which she won the La Ciotat Film Festival Best Actress award.
She is the daughter of Jean-François Stévenin, and the sister of actors Sagamore Stévenin, Robinson Stévenin and Pierre Stévenin.
In 2015, she created a foundation Les merveilles du monde (The wonders of the world) working in India and Mexico to promote peace, joy, love, childhood and spiritual development (« la paix, la joie, l’amour, l’enfance, le développement spirituel et le soin »).

Sylvain Curinier (born 15 March 1969 in Lons-le-Saunier) is a French slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a silver medal in the K1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Curinier also won a silver medal in the K1 team event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Mezzana.

René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (29 May 1878, Lons-le-Saunier – 24 November 1949) was a French botanist and mycologist. His major work was the Flore de l'Afrique du Nord in 16 volumes published posthumously in 1953. He collected plants from Algeria, Morocco, France, and Mali for the herbarium of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium.

Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet (16 November 1925 – 3 October 2017) was a French neuroscientist and medical researcher.
His works, and those of his team, have brought about the discovery of paradoxical sleep (a term he coined) and to its individualisation as the third state of functioning of the brain (1959), to the discovery of its phylogenesis, of its ontogenesis and its main mechanisms. Jouvet was the researcher who first developed the analeptic drug Modafinil.

Guy Canivet (born 23 September 1943 in Lons-le-Saunier) is a French judge.
As of 2005, he is president of the Court of Cassation and as such is the highest judge in France.
On 22 February 2007, Jean-Louis Debré, president of the French National Assembly, appointed Guy Canivet to the Constitutional Council of France, replacing Jean-Claude Colliard.

Jean-François Stévenin (French: [stevnɛ̃]; 23 April 1944 – 27 July 2021) was a French actor and filmmaker. He appeared in 150 films and television shows since 1968. He starred in the film Cold Moon, which was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

Robert Lynen (24 May 1920 in Nermier, France – 1 April 1944 in Karlsruhe, Germany) was a French actor. A child star of French cinema, he joined the French Resistance during his country's occupation during World War II, was arrested and deported to Germany, and shot by a Nazi firing squad after repeated escape attempts.

Jean-Claude Romand (born 11 February 1954) is a French spree killer and impostor who pretended to be a medical doctor for 18 years before killing his wife, children and parents in January 1993 when he was about to be exposed.
Heavy suspicions also weigh around the death of his father-in-law, Pierre Crolet, who fell from a staircase on 23 October 1988. Jean-Claude Romand is the only witness to the alleged accident.