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Poets from Brittany

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Marie de France
medieval poet
Félicité de La Mennais
French priest, philosopher and political theorist (1782–1854)
Victor Segalen
French poet (1878–1919)
Charles Le Goffic
French poet, novelist and historian (1863-1932)
Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué
French writer (1815–1895)
Guy Ropartz
French composer and conductor
Roparz Hemon
Breton writer (1900–1978)
Auguste Brizeux
French artist
François-Marie Luzel
French writer (1821–1895)
Pêr-Jakez Helias
Breton author (1914–1995)
Théodore Botrel
French singer-songwriter
Abeozen
François Eliès, born Fañch Eliès and better known by the pseudonym Abeozen, (1896 Saint-Sauveur, Finistère – 1963 La Baule) was a Breton nationalist, novelist and dramatist who wrote in the Breton language. Abeozen was also a noted scholar of the Welsh language.
Pêr Denez
French linguist, lexicographer, scholar and writer (1921-2011)
Añjela Duval
French poet (1905–1981)
Glenmor
Glenmor was the stage name of Emile Le Scanf (1931–1996), a Breton protest singer and poet who sought to preserve the Breton language and adapt local traditions of folk singing to the radical culture of the 1960s and 70s. He is also known by the Breton name Milig Ar Skañv.
Youenn Gwernig
French writer (1925–2006)
François Jaffrennou
Breton language writer and editor, Breton nationalist and neo-druid bard
Erwan Berthou
French poet (1861–1933)
Jean-Pierre Calloc'h
writer (1888–1917)
Camille Bryen
French artist and poet (1907-1977)
Charles de Gaulle
French poet
Loeiz Herrieu
French historian (1879–1953)
Youenn Drezen
Breton nationalist (1899–1972)
Régis de l'Estourbeillon
French politician (1858–1946)
Gabriel Milin
French politician (1822-1895)
Danielle Collobert
French writer (1940–1978)
Jean Meschinot
French poet
Odile Caradec
French poet and writer (1925–2021)
Ronan Huon
French writer and editor (1922-2003)