People from La Roche-sur-Yon

Adlène Guedioura
Adlène Guedioura is an Algerian international footballer who plays as a midfielder.He currently plays for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Alexandre Bonnet
Alexandre Bonnet (born October 17, 1986 in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée) is a French football midfielder currently playing for Le Havre AC in the French Ligue 2.

Aymeric Jeanneau
Aymeric Jeanneau is a French professional basketball player.

Benjamin Rabier
Benjamin Rabier (1864, La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée - 1939, Faverolles) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator.

Félicia Ballanger
Félicia Ballanger (born 12 June 1971 in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée) was a French racing cyclist.

Léon Pervinquière
Léon Pervinquière was a French geologist and paleontologist.

Mélodie Chataigner
Mélodie Chataigner (born March 28, 1988 in La Roche sur Yon) is a French pair skater.

Olivier Bobineau
Olivier Bobineau (born on 6 March 1972, La Roche-sur-Yon) is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion.

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry was a French painter.

Véronique Besse
Véronique Besse is a member of the National Assembly of France and represents the Vendée department.

Yvan Craipeau
Yvan Craipeau (24 September 1911, La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée - 13 December 2001) was a French Trotskyist activist.

Émile Faguet
Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.

Éric Chevillard
Éric Chevillard, (born 1964 in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée) is a French novelist.