Alain (given name)

Alain is widely used as a personal name and is the French form of Alan but also exists in English-speaking countries:

A

 * Alain Absire (born 1950), French writer
 * Alain Acard (1951–2023), French sprint canoeist
 * Alain Alivon (born 1965), French military and drill instructor
 * Alain Altamirano (born 1980), Mexican Neuroscientist
 * Alain Altinoglu (born 1975), French-Armenian conductor
 * Alain Ambrosino (born 1951), French rally driver
 * Alain Amougou (born 1973), Cameroonian footballer
 * Alain Anderton, British author of business studies and economics textbooks
 * Alain Anen (born 1950), Luxembourgian fencer
 * Alain Andji (born 1974), French pole vaulter
 * Alain André, Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec
 * Alain Anziani (born 1951), member of the Senate of France, representing the Gironde department
 * Alain Aoun (born 1971), Lebanese politician and nephew of President Michel Aoun
 * Alain Arroyo (born 1982), Spanish footballer and manager
 * Alain Aspect (born 1947), French physicist
 * Alain Akouala Atipault (born 1959), Congolese politician
 * Alain Attalah (born 1964), Egyptian basketball player
 * Alain Auderset (born 1968), Swiss Christian author of comic books
 * Alain Ayissi (born 1962), Cameroonian cyclist
 * Alain Ayroles (born 1968), French author, playwright, screenwriter, and translator

B

 * Alain Baclet (born 1986), French footballer
 * Alain Badiou (born 1937), French philosopher
 * Alain Bailey (born 1987), Jamaican long jumper
 * Alain Bancquart (1934–2022), French composer
 * Alain Baraton (born 1957), French gardener
 * Alain Baroja (born 1989), Venezuelan football goalkeeper
 * Alain Barrau (1947–2021), French politician
 * Alain Barrière (1935–2019), French singer
 * Alain Barudoni (born 1940), Swiss fencer
 * Alain Bashung (1947–2009), French singer, songwriter and actor
 * Alain Bauer, (born 1962), French criminologist
 * Alain Baumann (born 1966), Swiss footballer
 * Alain Baxter (born 1973), Scottish professional skier
 * Alain Beaulé (born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Alain Bédé (born 1970), Ivorian footballer
 * Alain Behi (born 1978), French-Ivorian football player
 * Alain Bejjani (born 1973), Lebanese businessman
 * Alain Bélanger, Canadian professional hockey player
 * Alain J. P. Belda, Chairman of the Board of Alcoa since January 2001
 * Alain Bellemare (born 1962), Canadian businessman
 * Alain Bellouis (born 1947), French cyclist
 * Jacques-Alain Bénisti (born 1952), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Benoit (born 1948), French physicist
 * Alain Bensoussan (born 1940), French mathematician
 * Alain Berbérian (1953–2017), French-Armenian film director and writer
 * Alain Bergala (born 1943), French film critic, essayist, screenwriter, and director
 * Alain Berger (born 1990), Swiss ice hockey player
 * Alain Berger, Swiss orienteering competitor
 * Alain Bergeron (born 1950), Canadian science fiction author and political scientist
 * Alain Berliner (born 1963), Belgian director best known for the 1997 film Ma vie en rose
 * Alain Bernard (born 1983), French swimmer from Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône
 * Alain Bernaud (1932–2020), French composer
 * Alain Bernheim (1922–2009), French-American film producer and literary agent
 * Alain Bernheim (1931–2022), French musician and Masonic researcher
 * Alain Berset (born 1972), President of the Swiss Council of States
 * Alain Billiet (born 1951), the alleged designer of the euro sign (€)
 * Alain Blanchard (died 1419), commander of the crossbowmen of Touent during the Hundred Years' War
 * Alain Blondel (born 1962), retired French decathlete
 * Alain Bocquet (born 1946), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Boghossian (born 1970), retired Armenian-French football player
 * Alain Boire (born 1971), Canadian politician
 * Yve-Alain Bois (born 1952), historian and critic of modern art
 * Alain Bombard (1924–2005), French biologist, physician and politician
 * Alain Bondue (born 1959), France cyclist
 * Alain Boublil, librettist who worked with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg
 * Alain Bouchard, Canadian businessman
 * Jean-Alain Boumsong (born 1979), Cameroonian professional football defender
 * Alain Bravo, French electrical engineer and entrepreneur
 * Alain Brunet, French scholar

C

 * Alain Cacheux (1947–2020), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Calmat (born 1940), French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician
 * Alain Cantareil (born 1983), French footballer
 * Alain Caron (1938–1986), Canadian professional ice hockey player
 * Alain Caron (born 1955), Canadian jazz musician and bass player
 * Alain F. Carpentier (born 1933), French heart surgeon
 * Alain Casanova (born 1961), football former goalkeeper and manager
 * Alain Cavalier (born 1931), French film director
 * Alain Caveglia (born 1968), French football retired striker
 * Alain Cayzac (born 1941), French advertising agent
 * Alain Chabat (born 1958), French Jewish actor and director
 * Alain Chamfort (born 1949), French singer of Breton origin
 * Alain Chapel (1937–1990), French Michelin 3 starred chef
 * Alain Chartier (1392–1430), French poet and political writer
 * Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière (1748–1822), seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada
 * Alain Chatillon (born 1943), member of the Senate of France
 * Alain Chevrier (born 1961), retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * Alain Claeys (born 1948), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Clark (born 1979), Dutch musician and producer
 * Alain Colmerauer (1941–2017), French computer scientist
 * Alain Connes (born 1947), French mathematician
 * Alain Corbin, French historian, specialist of the 19th century in France
 * Alain Corneau (1943–2010), French movie director and writer
 * Alain Côté (born 1957), professional ice hockey player for the Quebec Nordiques
 * Alain Côté (born 1967), former professional ice hockey player and Roller Hockey player
 * Alain Couriol (born 1958), former French football striker
 * Alain Courtois (born 1951), Belgian politician
 * Alain Cousin (born 1947), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Marie-Alain Couturier (1897–1954), French Dominican friar, designer of stained glass windows
 * Alain Cuny (1908–1994), French actor

D

 * Alain Daigle (born 1954), former professional ice hockey forward
 * Alain Daniélou (1907–1994), French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and convert to Shaivite Hinduism
 * Alain de Benoist (born 1943), French academic, philosopher, founder of the Nouvelle Droite
 * Alain de Boissieu (1914–2006), French general, son-in-law of general Charles de Gaulle
 * Alain de Botton, (born 1969), British writer and television producer
 * Alain de Cadenet (1945–2022), on-air personality for the SPEED Channel and ESPN
 * Alain de Changy (1922–1994), Belgian racing driver
 * Alain de Coëtivy (1407–1474), prelate from a Breton noble family
 * Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon (1646–1730), Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV
 * Alain Huetz de Lemps, French geographer and botanist
 * Alain de Lille (1128–1202), French theologian and poet
 * Alain de Mijolla (1933–2019), French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
 * Alain de Royer-Dupré (born 1944), French racehorse trainer
 * Alain de Solminihac (1593–1659), French Catholic religious reformer and bishop of Cahors
 * Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle (1951–2000), the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte
 * Alain Decaux (1925–2016), French historian
 * Alain Defossé (1957–2017), French novelist and translator
 * Alain Delon (born 1935), César Award-winning French actor
 * Alain Demurger, modern French historian, specialist of the history of the Knights Templar and the Crusades
 * Alain Deneef, Belgian businessman
 * Alain Desrosières, French statistician at the INSEE and a sociologist and historian of science at the EHESS
 * Alain Destexhe, Belgian liberal politician
 * Alain Desvergnes (1931–2020), French photographer
 * Alain Digbeu (born 1975), French professional basketball player
 * Étienne Alain Djissikadié (born 1977), Gabonese footballer
 * Pierre-Alain Donnier, Swiss journalist, died while reporting from Tchad in 1988
 * Alain Dorval (1946–2024), French voice actor born in Algiers
 * Alain Dostie (born 1943), Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter
 * Alain Dubuc, Canadian journalist and an economist
 * Alain Ducasse (born 1956), Monégasque chef
 * Alain Dufaut (born 1944), member of the Senate of France, representing the Vaucluse department
 * Alain Duhamel (born 1940), French journalist and political commentator

E

 * Alain Ehrenberg (born 1950), French sociologist
 * Alain Michel Ekoue, Cameroonian football player
 * Alain Elkann (born 1950), Italian novelist and journalist of Jewish descent
 * Alain Enthoven (born 1930), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965
 * Alain Escoffier (1949–1977), French anti-communist activist and martyr
 * Alain Etchegoyen (1951–2007), French philosopher and novelist
 * Alain Eyobo (born 1961), retired Cameroonian professional football forward
 * Alain Erlande-Brandenburg (1937–2020), French art historian and archivist

F

 * Jean-Alain Fanchone (born 1988), French footballer
 * Alain Fauconnier (born 1945), French politician and a member of the Senate of France
 * Alain Ferry (born 1952), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Ferté (born 1955), French professional racing driver
 * Alain Figaret, French luxury shirt brand launched in 1968 by Alain Figaret
 * Alain Finkielkraut (born 1949), French essayist, and son of a Jewish Polish artisan
 * Alain Fouché (born 1942), French politician and a member of the Senate of France
 * Alain Fournier (1943–2000), computer graphics researcher
 * Alain Frachon (born 1950), French journalist
 * Pierre-Alain Frau, (born 1980), French football forward

G

 * Alain Bernat Gallego (born 1971), Andorran politician
 * Alain Garant (born 1952), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
 * Alain Gaspoz (born 1970), Beninese football player who, is playing for FC Bagnes
 * Alain Geiger (born 1960), retired Swiss international football defender and current manager
 * Alain Gerbault (1893–1941), French aviator, tennis champion and sailor
 * Alain Gest (born 1950), French politician
 * Alain Gheerbrant (1920–2013), French writer, editor, poet and explorer
 * Alain Giletti (born 1939), French figure skater
 * Alain Giresse (born 1952), French professional football (soccer) midfielder
 * Alain Glavieux (died 2004), French professor in electrical engineering
 * Alain Goma (born 1972), former football player
 * Alain Goraguer (1931–2023), French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer
 * Alain Gouaméné (born 1966), former football goalkeeper from Côte d'Ivoire
 * Alain Gournac (born 1943), French politician and a member of the Senate of France
 * Alain Grandbois, CC (1900–1975), Quebecer poet born in Saint-Casimir, Quebec
 * Alain Guionnet (born 1954), French revisionist and a left-wing activist

H

 * Alain Haché (born 1970), experimental physicist and associate professor at the University of Moncton, Canada
 * Alain Hamer (born 1965), Luxembourgian football referee
 * Alain Héroux (born 1964), former professional ice hockey left winger
 * Alain Hertoghe (born 1959), Belgian journalist who worked for the French Catholic newspaper La Croix
 * Alain Houpert (born 1957), French politician and a member of the Senate of France
 * Alain Hutchinson (born 1949), Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament

J

 * Alain Jacquet (1939–2008), French artist representative of the American Pop Art movement
 * Alain Jessua (1932–2017), French film director and screenwriter
 * Alain Johannes (born 1962), guitarist and member of the band Eleven
 * Alain Johns, fictional gunslinger in Stephen King's Dark Tower series of novels
 * Alain Joly, French businessman
 * Georges-Alain Jones (born 1975), French singer
 * Alain Joyandet (born 1954), French politician
 * Alain Juppé (born 1945), French right-wing politician, Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997

K

 * Alain Kashama (born 1979), professional Canadian football player
 * Alain Muana Kizamba, goalkeeper from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * Alain Koffi (born 1983), French professional basketball player
 * Alain Koudou (born 1984), Ivorian football striker
 * Alain Krivine (1941–2022), leader of the Trotskyist movement in France

L

 * Alain Lamassoure (born 1944), French politician and Member of the European Parliament
 * Alain Lambert (born 1946), French politician
 * Alain Le Boulluec, contemporary French patristics scholar
 * Alain Le Bussy (1947–2010), prolific Belgian author of science fiction
 * Alain Le Vern (born 1948), French Socialist Senator, president of the Haute-Normandie region
 * Alain Lebas (born 1953), French sprint canoeist
 * Alain Paul Lebeaupin (1945–2021), French Archbishop
 * Alain Lefèvre (born 1962), Québécois pianist and composer
 * Alain Lemercier (born 1957), retired male race walker from France
 * Alain Lemieux (born 1962), retired ice hockey player
 * Alain Lequeux (1947–2006), French jockey
 * Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747), French novelist and playwright
 * Alain Lestié (born 1944), French painter and writer
 * Alain A. Lewis (born 1947), American mathematician
 * Alain Lipietz (born 1947), French engineer, economist, politician, member of the French Green Party
 * Alain Liri (born 1979), Côte d'Ivoire footballer
 * Alain Locke (1885–1954), American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts
 * Alain Lombard (born 1940), French conductor

M

 * Alain Mabanckou (born 1966), author and journalist
 * Alain Maca, retired American soccer defender, President of the JFK International Air Terminal
 * Alain Madelin (born 1946), French politician and former minister
 * Alain Mafart, French military officer
 * Alain Mamou-Mani, French film producer and writer
 * Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706), French cartographer and engineer
 * Alain Marc (born 1957), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Marion (1938–1998), French flautist
 * Alain Marleix (born 1946), Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from 2007 to 2008
 * Alain Marty (born 1946), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Masudi (born 1978), Congolese football player
 * Alain Maury, French astronomer
 * Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o (born 1957), Cameroonian political figure
 * Alain Menu (born 1963), Swiss racing driver
 * Alain Merchadier (born 1952), French retired professional football defender
 * Alain Mesili, political activist in France during the 1968 disturbances
 * Alain Meslet (born 1950), French professional road bicycle racer
 * Alain Meunier (born 1942), French cellist
 * Alain Mikli (born 1955), French designer of high-end handmade eyeglasses and accessories
 * Jacques-Alain Miller, prominent French Lacanian psychoanalyst
 * Alain Milon (born 1947), member of the Senate of France
 * Alain Mimoun (1921–2013), French Olympic marathon champion
 * Alain Moizan (born 1953), French retired professional football midfielder
 * Alain Moka (born 1954), Congolese politician
 * Alain Moyne-Bressand (born 1945), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Pierre-Alain Muet (born 1945), member of the National Assembly of France

N

 * Alain Nasreddine (born 1975), professional ice hockey defenceman
 * Alain Ndizeye (born 1986), Burundian football defender
 * Alain Ndjoubi Ossami, Gabonese politician and economist
 * Alain Nef (born 1982), Swiss football defender
 * Alain Néri (born 1942), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Ngalani (born 1975), Cameroonian two-time Muay Thai kickboxing world champion
 * Alain Nkong (born 1979), Cameroonian football midfielder

O

 * Alain Junior Ollé Ollé (born 1987), Cameroonian professional footballer

P

 * Alain Paquet (born 1961), Canadian politician, teacher and economist
 * Alain Pasquier (born 1942), French art historian specialising in ancient Greek art, museography and conservation
 * Alain Passard (born 1956), French chef and owner of the three star restaurant L'Arpège in Paris
 * Alain Payet (1947–2007), French director of Nazi exploitation and chic porn movies
 * Alain Pellegrini (born 1946), French général de Division
 * Alain Perrin (born 1956), French football manager and former footballer
 * Alain Peyrefitte (1925–1999), French scholar and politician
 * Alain Poher (1909–1996), French centrist politician
 * Alain Poiré (1917–2000), French film producer and screenwriter
 * Alain Pons (born 1995), Gibraltarian footballer
 * Alain Pompidou (born 1942), French scientist and politician
 * Alain Portes (born 1961), French handball player
 * Alain Portmann (born 1981), Swiss football goalkeeper
 * Alain Prost (born 1955), French racing driver; Four Time Formula One World Champion
 * Alain Provost, French Landscape Architect

Q

 * Marc-Alain Ouaknin (born 1957), French rabbi and philosopher

R

 * Alain Raguel (born 1976), French football player
 * Alain Rakotondramanana (born 1970), Malagasy footballer
 * Alain Ramadier (born 1958), French politician
 * Alain Rayes (born 1971), Canadian politician
 * Alain Razahasoa (born 1966), Malagasy long-distance runner
 * Alain Rémond (born 1946), French humor columnist
 * Alain Resnais (1922–2014), French New Wave film director
 * Alain Rey (1928–2020), French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality
 * Alain Rey (born 1982), Swiss ski mountaineer
 * Alain Richard (born 1945), French politician
 * Alain Richard (born 1985), Swiss ski mountaineer
 * Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008), French writer and filmmaker
 * Alain Robert (born 1962), French rock and urban climber
 * Alain Robidoux (born 1960), Canadian snooker player
 * Alain Roca (born 1976), retired volleyball player from Cuba
 * Alain Rochat (born 1983), Swiss footballer
 * Alain Roche, former French football defender
 * Alain Rohr (born 1971), Swiss athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles
 * Alain Rolland (born 1966), former Irish rugby union footballer and current international referee
 * Alain Romans (1905–1988), French jazz composer
 * Alain Rousset (born 1951), the Socialist president of the Aquitaine region of France

S

 * Alain Sailhac, Executive Vice President and Dean Emeritus at the French Culinary Institute in New York City
 * Alain Saint-Ogan (1895–1974), French comics author and artist
 * Alain Sarde (born 1952), French film producer and actor
 * Alain Sars (born 1961), retired French professional football referee
 * Alain Savary (1918–1988), French Socialist politician
 * Alain Schmitt (born 1983), French judoka
 * Alain Schultz (born 1983), Swiss association footballer
 * Alain Senderens, leading French chef credited as one of the founders of Nouvelle Cuisine
 * Alain Sergile, Haitian swimmer who lived in Roswell, Georgia
 * Alain Silver, US film and music producer, and reviewer, historian and writer on film topics, especially film noir and horror films
 * Alain Simard (businessman), President and CEO of L'Équipe Spectra since its inception in 1977
 * Alain Soral (born 1958), French sociologist, essayist, and film maker, as well as being the author of several polemical essays
 * Alain Souchon (born 1944), French singer, songwriter and actor
 * Alain Suguenot (born 1951), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Suied (1951–2008), French poet and translator
 * Alain Supiot, French legal scholar
 * Alain Sutter (born 1968), Swiss football player
 * Alain Sylvestre (born 1979), professional Canadian kickboxer
 * Alain Succar (born 1990), professional F&B consultancy

T

 * Alain Tabourian, Lebanese politician of Armenian origin
 * Alain Tanner (1929–2022), Swiss film director
 * Alain Taravella (born 1948), French billionaire
 * Alain Tardif (born 1946), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
 * Alain Touraine (1925–2023), French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer
 * Alain Touwaide (born 1953), Belgian historian of medicine and sciences currently researching at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.
 * Alain Traoré (born 1988), Burkinabé football (soccer) midfielder
 * Alain Trudel (born 1966), Canadian musician, composer and conductor
 * Alain Turnier, Haitian historian

V

 * Alain Vanzo (1928–2002), French opera singer and composer
 * Alain Vasselle (born 1947), member of the Senate of France representing the Oise department
 * Alain Vasseur (born 1948), French professional road bicycle racer
 * Alain Viala (1947–2021), professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and the University of Paris III
 * Alain Vidalies (born 1951), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Alain Vigneault (born 1961), the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL
 * Alain Vivien (born 1938), French Socialist Party (PS) politician

W

 * Alain Weill (born 1946), French art critic, expert in graphic design and advertising
 * Alain Wertheimer (1949), French businessman who owns a controlling interest in the House of Chanel with his brother Gerard
 * Alain Whyte (pronounced Alan) (born 1967), English guitarist, singer, and songwriter
 * Alain Wicki, Swiss skeleton racer
 * Alain Williams (born 1954), British sprint canoeist

Y

 * Alain Bédouma Yoda (born 1951), Burkinabé politician and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation

Z

 * Alain Zoubga (born 1953), medical doctor and politician in Burkina Faso

Other

 * Alain, bishop of Auxerre (died 1185), Cistercian abbot and bishop of Auxerre from 1152 to 1167
 * Alain I of Albret (1440–1522), powerful French aristocrat
 * Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier, French author and soldier

Fictional characters

 * Alain, recurring character in the Pokémon anime series
 * Alain, a recurring character in tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ghost
 * Alain van Versch, a fictional character played by Matthias Schoenaerts in Rust and Bone