Bouches-du-Rhône is a department in southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and largest city is Marseille; other important cities include Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Martigues and Aubagne.
Mady Mesplé was a French opera singer who was considered the leading coloratura soprano of her generation in France, and sometimes heralded as the successor to Mado Robin, with Lakmé by Delibes becoming her signature role internationally.
Mireille Best was a French author, known for her works of fiction featuring lesbian characters and themes.
Isabelle Autissier is a French sailor, navigator, writer, and broadcaster. She is celebrated for being the first woman to have completed a solo world navigation in competition. Based in La Rochelle since 1980, she is also a writer and honorary president of WWF-France.
Suzanne Chaigneau was a French violinist and chamber musician, and a noted violin teacher.
Camille du Gast was one of a trio of pioneering French female motoring celebrities of the Belle Epoque, together with Hélène de Rothschild and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart the.
Camille Lecointre is a French sailor.
Ysaora Jennifer Thibus is a French right-handed foil fencer, 2022 individual world champion, three-time Olympian, and 2020 team Olympic silver medalist.
Élise Delzenne is a French former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2013 and 2017 for the Bourgogne–Pro Dialog, Velocio–SRAM and Lotto–Soudal Ladies teams. She was the winner of the 2013 French National Road Race Championships. In 2015, she finished second in individual pursuit and points race at the European Track Championships.
Marie-Rose Gaillard was a Belgian racing cyclist. She won the Belgian national road race title in 1966.
Back to Mom's is a 2016 French comedy film directed by Éric Lavaine.
Hélène Defrance is a French former sailor, who won a bronze medal in the women's 470 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also won the 2010 470 European Championships race, and the 2016 470 World Championships. Defrance is a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite.
Stéphanie Gicquel is a French athlete, M&A lawyer, author and speaker born in Carcassonne on July 9, 1982, ultra-distance runner and French 24-hour champion in 2018 and 2022, vice-European 24-hour champion in 2022, holder of the French athletics record in the 24-hour discipline and vice-world champion in the 100 km with the French athletics team. She is also an explorer and since 2015 has held the record for the longest cross-country skiing expedition carried out by a woman in Antarctica without using sled dogs nor kites. She is also a writer, author of several books on her expeditions and on running. A figure of adaptation in extreme conditions, she participates in work with experts and scientists on the capacity of the human body to adapt to environmental stresses in a context of global warming, the impact of movement and nutrition on the well-being and performance.
Sarah Soilihi is a French athlete, politician, and political spokesperson. A victory at the World Traditional Kickboxing Association in 2015 made her a competitive kick-boxing champion, and the following year she was a French national champion in semi-contact karate. Beginning in 2012 she was an active member of the French Socialist Party, and she ran on socialist party lists in elections in 2014 and 2015 but did not obtain a seat. During the 2017 French presidential election, she was the main spokesperson for Jean-Luc Mélenchon as he led the new party La France Insoumise. In late 2018, she left La France Insoumise for the left unity party Génération.s, and in 2019 she affiliated herself with the movement Pôle radical et écologiste.
Cindy Perros is a French kickboxer and the current ISKA World super lightweight and light welterweight Freestyle kickboxing champion, as well as the former European light welterweight Freestyle champion.
Angélique Pitiot is a French retired kickboxer and Nak Muay. She is the former ISKA Muay Thai and K-1 light-welterweight world champion, three time FFSCDA kickboxing and one time muay thai champion, and the WPMF European welterweight champion.
Gémima Joseph is a French sprinter. She won a silver medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Martine Vassal is a French politician who has presided over the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis since 2018. A member of The Republicans (LR), she succeeded Jean-Claude Gaudin in office, who resigned to focus on his term as Mayor of Marseille.
Aloïse Retornaz is a French sailor.
Thaïs d'Escufon, born August 28, 1999 in Toulouse, is a French far right activist. She was spokesperson of Génération identitaire from 2018 to its dissolution by the French government in 2021.
