WLouis Alibert was a French linguist.
WJoseph Anglade (1868–1930) was a French philologist. He specialized in Romance languages, particularly Occitan, and studied the lyrics of the troubadours. He was instrumental in formalizing the term Occitan for the language of Provence.
WArnaud de Saleta was a cleric and Béarnese poet who served during the establishment of a Protestant state in the Kingdom of Navarra in the 16th century.
WAlbèrt Arnavièlha was an Occitan poet and journalist born in Alès on 22 July 1844. He died in Montpellier on 11 November 1927. He wrote both in French and Occitan and was a majoral of Frederic Mistral's Felibritge. He also was a royalist militant for Action française and a close friend of Charles Maurras's.
WFolco de Baroncelli-Javon, was a French writer and cattle farmer. As an influential gardian, he is an important figure in the traditional lifestyle and culture of the Camargue region of southern France.
WAntoinette de Beaucaire or Marie-Antoinette Rivière was an Occitan language writer. Her works include Li Velugo or "The Sparklets."
WLouis Bellaud also known as Bellaud de la Bellaudière (1543–1588) was an Occitan language writer and poet from Provence.
WJoan Francés Blanc is an Occitan writer and lexicographer.
WJoan Bodon, who was born in Crespin, Aveyron, Occitania (France) on December 11, 1920 and died on February 24, 1975 in Algeria, is an author who wrote exclusively in Occitan although he is credited as being called Jean Boudou in the French translations of his works. His mother was a contaira, or storyteller, from Rouergue and paved the way for his love and frequent use of traditional Langue d'Oc tales and figures. Together with Renat Nelli, Marcela Delpastre, Robèrt Lafont and Max Roqueta, Bodon ranks among the most prominent Occitan writers of the twentieth century.
WAlexandrine Élisabeth Brémond, known as Brémonde de Tarascon, was a well known poet from the south of France who wrote in the Occitan language. She was a member of the Félibrige, a society that tried to preserve the language and its literature.
WJoan de Cabanas was an Occitan language writer from Provence.
WCyprien Despourrins was an Occitan-language poet from Béarn and member of the Bigorre Parliament born in Accous in 1698.
WGuillaume de Salluste Du Bartas was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet. Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri de Navarre for most of his career. Du Bartas was celebrated across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe for his divine poetry, particularly L'Uranie (1574), Judit (1574), La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), and La Seconde Semaine (1584-1603).
WJean-Henri Fondeville was a Béarnese Occitan writer.
WFrancés de Corteta, also known as Corteta de Prades was a nobleman from the Agen province and an Occitan-language poet and baroque play writer.
WFrançois Toussaint Gros was an Occitan-language writer from Provence.
WJoan Francés Fulcònis was a mathematician born in Lieusola ca 1520 and who lived in Nice. He is the author of La Cisterna Fulcronica, a treaty of arithmetics written in Occitan language and printed in Lyon in 1562.
WAugièr Galhard was a 16th-century Occitan language writer from western Languedoc.
WEstève Garcin was an Occitan language writer from Provence.
WPey de Garros, was the most important Occitan poet of the Renaissance. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language.
WJean-Baptiste Germain was an 18th-century Occitan writer from Provence. He was also a French diplomat in Algeria at the service of the Compagnie Royale d'Afrique.
WFélix Gras was a Provençal poet and novelist.
WGuilhèm Adèr was an Occitan language writer from Gascony. He is the author of a book a maxims inspired from Cato and of an epic poem dedicated to Henry III of Navarre and IV France in 2690 alexandrines.
WJoan Giraud d'Astròs was an Occitan Language writer and a Catholic priest.
WRobèrt Lafont was a French intellectual from Provence. He was a linguist, an author, an historian, an expert in literature and a political theoretician. His name in French reads Robert Lafont.
WFrederic Mistral was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. Mistral received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist". He was a founding member of the Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille.
WJean-Joseph de Mondonville, also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoyed great success in his day. Pierre-Louis Daquin claimed: "If I couldn't be Rameau, there's no one I would rather be than Mondonville".
WJoan Claudi Peiròt was an occitan language writer from Millau in the province of Rouergue.
WÉtienne Pélabon was a Provençal Occitan-language writer from the 18th century. He is above all remembered for his play Maniclo.
WAntonin Perbòsc was a poet from Occitania, France. He was born in Labarthe, Tarn-et-Garonne in 1861 and died in 1944 in Montauban. His first job was as a primary school teacher in Comberouger, a small town 30km off Montauban, and later in Loze, near Villefranche-de-Rouergue. He'd teach his pupils about the region's traditions and cultural heritage and even formed a society for the more eager among them. The so-called societat tradicionista gathered 51 schoolgoers, both male and female, between 1900 and 1908.
WAlejo Peyret was a French-born Argentine writer, agronomist, colonial administrator, and historian. Emigrating to Argentina when he was 25, he became a prominent figure in the history of Entre Ríos Province.
WPierre Brechet is an Occitan teacher, scholar, and activist, living in Marseille. Since 2010 he is the president of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans.
WMarie Rouanet is an Occitan singer and writer.
WNicolas Saboly was a French poet, composer and choirmaster. He composed many Christmas carols in the Provençal dialect which form one of the monuments of poetry in that language and have been repeatedly republished until the present day.
WXavier Navarrot was an Occitan-language poet from Béarn.
WAdelina Yzac is an author who writes in both Occitan and French. She went to school in Sarlat and specialized in literature, Spanish and linguistics at the university of Montpellier. She's also a playwright and a story writer. Her style has always been heavily influenced by the literature of Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America.