Science

• Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901-2000), was a physicist of the French Academy. He lived in Alès in his early childhood.
• Jean-Baptiste Dumas ( 1800-1884), was a chemist and a politician.
• François Boissier de Sauvages (1706-1763), was a physician and a botanist.
• Antoine Depracieux ( 1703-1768), he was a mathematician born in Portes near Alès.
• René Temey is an inventor born in Alès on February 24th, 1947.

Arts subjects

• Alphonse Daudet, the famous writer, had a few-weeks-long stay in Alès when he was young and worked as a supervisor in the college of the town. This experience inspired him in his autobiographical “Petit Chose”.
• Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages ( 1710-1795), was a naturalist and a lexicographer. He wrote a bilingual Lengadocian-French dictionary.
• René Aberlenc, was a painter born in Alais in 1920. He died at Vallon Pont d’Arc in 1971.
• Jean-Pierre Chabrol is a writer born in 1925 in Chamborigaud.
• Maurice André is a trumpet player born in 1933 in Alès.
• Jean-Louis Benoît is a director born in 1947 in Alès.
• Alexandra Lamy is an actress born in Alès in 1975.
• Jean le Gac is a painter born in 1936 in Alès.
• Thierry Martin is a writer and an organist born in 1952.
• Jean-Jacques Bourdin is a broadcast journalist, born in Alès in 1949.
• Julien Doré is a singer born in Alès in 1982.
• Thierry Maulnier was a journalist and a writer born un Alais in 1909. He died at Marnes la Coquette in 1988.
• Francis Lacassin (1931-2008) was a journalist and a writer born in Saint-Jean-de-Valériscle.
• Nicolas Boisson is a scenarist(fil à Contresens a France 3 production).
• Pierre André Benoît was an Art publisher who gave his collection to Alès and to the National Library on the occasion of the creation of a library-museum named after him.
• Lionnel Astier is an actor and a stage director.

Sports

• Hassan El Lasshini, Kveni Paulsen, Thierry Pantel, are alesian athletes.
• Rousson soccer player, Laurent Blanc.
• Former high performance sportsmen from the Olympique d’Alès en Cévennes: Gérard Gili, Victor Da Silva, Olivier Dall’ Oglio, Sabri Lamouchi, James Debbah, Didier Monczuck, Didier Agathe, Franck Ribéry, José Pasqualetti, Bernard Bosquier, Christian Coste, Christophe Chaintreuil, Gilles Leclerc.
• Jean Philippe Gatien is a table tennis player of Salindres.
• Racing and F1 Drivers: Stéphane Sarrazin and Romain Dumas.
• Dominique André is a disabled sports athlete who holds medals from World and European Championships and from the Olympic Games.
• Raphaël Pujazon is an athlete who arrived first in the 3000 steeple European Championship in 1946 and in 1947.
• Valérie Gay is a disabled table tennis player. She is the French Champion, and the World Champion in team at the first world championships.

Others

• Pierre de Conty de La Mothe d’Argencourt (1575-1655) was an army engineer.
• General Edgard de Larminat (1895-1962)
• Rear-Admiral Gabriel Auphan (1894 -1982)