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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Dieppe
|commune status         = [[Subprefectures in France|Subprefecture]] and [[Communes of France|commune]]
|image                  = 2022-07-09 12-19-07 - Dieppe - Vue générale.jpg
|caption                = A view of the centre of Dieppe in July 2022
|image coat of arms     = Blason Dieppe.svg
|arrondissement         = Dieppe
|canton                 = [[Canton of Dieppe-1|Dieppe-1]] and [[Canton of Dieppe-2|2]]
|INSEE                  = 76217
|postal code            = 76200
|mayor                  = Nicolas Langlois<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=6 June 2023|language=fr}}</ref>
|party                  = [[French Communist Party|PCF]]
|term                   = 2020&ndash;2026
|intercommunality       = [[Communauté d'agglomération de la Région Dieppoise|CA Région Dieppoise]]
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|elevation min m        = 5
|elevation max m        = 70
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'''Dieppe''' ({{IPA|fr|djɛp}}; {{langx|nrf|Dgieppe}}; {{tooltip|prob.|probably}} {{etymology|ang|{{lang|ang|dēōp}}}} or [[Old Norse]] {{lang|non|djúpr}} {{gloss|deep}})<ref name="Beaurepaire">{{Cite book |language=en |first=François |last=de Beaurepaire |title=Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Seine-Maritime |publisher=A. et J. Picard |location=Paris |year=1979 |pages=180 |isbn=2-7084-0040-1 |oclc=6403150}}</ref> is a coastal [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Seine-Maritime]] [[departments of France|department]], [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]], northern [[France]].

Dieppe is a [[seaport]] on the [[English Channel]] at the mouth of the river [[Arques (river)|Arques]]. A regular ferry service runs to [[Newhaven, East Sussex|Newhaven]] in England.

Famous for its [[scallop]]s, Dieppe also has a popular [[Shingle beach|pebbled beach]], a 15th-century castle and the churches of [[James, son of Zebedee|Saint-Jacques]] and [[Saint Remigius|Saint-Remi]]. The mouth of the river [[Scie (river)|Scie]] lies at [[Hautot-sur-Mer]], directly to the west of Dieppe.

The inhabitants of the town of Dieppe are called {{lang|fr|Dieppois}} ({{abbr|m|masculine}}) and {{lang|fr|Dieppoise}} ({{abbr|f|feminine}}) in French.

==History==
First recorded as a small [[fishing]] settlement in 1030, Dieppe was an important prize fought over during the [[Hundred Years' War]].

It housed [[Dieppe maps|the most advanced French school of cartography]] in the 16th century. Two of France's best navigators, Michel le Vasseur and his brother Thomas le Vasseur, lived in Dieppe when they were recruited to join the expedition of [[René Goulaine de Laudonnière]] which departed [[Le Havre]] for [[Florida]] on April 20, 1564. The expedition resulted in the construction of [[Fort Caroline]], the first French colony in the New World.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenewworld.us/narrative-of-le-moyne/2/ |title=Narrative of Le Moyne – TheNewWorld.us |date=24 September 2011 |publisher=TheNewWorld.us |access-date=2011-10-09 |archive-date=2011-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211164321/http://thenewworld.us/narrative-of-le-moyne/2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

Another expedition two years before, in which Goulaine de Laudonnière was under the command of [[Jean Ribault]], a local Huguenot captain, had resulted in the foundation of [[Charlesfort]], now in South Carolina. Dieppe was the premier port of the kingdom in the 17th century.

After [[Edward VI of England|King Edward VI]] died on 6 July 1553, putting a temporary end to [[Protestantism|Protestant]] rule in England, [[John Knox]] left England to evade the Catholic regime of [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. First, under the permission of his friends, he went back to his home country of [[Scotland]]. Then after he stayed in Dieppe for a few months, he continued on his tracks and stayed in [[Geneva]]. There he met one of his influences, [[John Calvin]].

On 23 July 1632, 300 [[Colonialism|colonists]] heading to [[New France]] departed from Dieppe. At the [[Revocation of the Edict of Nantes]] in 1685, Dieppe lost 3,000 of its [[Huguenot]] citizens, who fled abroad.

Dieppe was an important target in [[war]]time; the town was largely destroyed by an [[England|Anglo]]-[[Netherlands|Dutch]] naval bombardment in 1694. It was rebuilt after 1696 in a typical French classical style by Ventabren, an architect, who gave it its unique feature for a sea port. It was popularised as a [[seaside resort]] following the 1824 visit of the widowed [[Duchess of Berry]], daughter-in-law of [[Charles X of France|Charles X]]. She encouraged the building of the recently renovated municipal [[theatre]], the ''Petit-Théâtre'' (1825), associated particularly with [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]. The city  enjoyed  [[Mayor|Mayoral]] status at this point and  in  1787, the ''"[[Mayor|Maire]] de Dieppe"'' was N. Nile.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Assemblée Provinciale (ROUEN, Généralité de) |title=Procès-verbal des séances de l'Assemblée Provinciale de la ... |date=1787 |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-609ln4_f2YC&dq=maire+de+Dieppe+1787&pg=PA36 |access-date=12 October 2023 |quote=M.Nile - Maire de Dieppe.}}</ref>

During the later 19th century, Dieppe became popular with English artists as a [[beach resort]]. Prominent literary figures such as [[Arthur Symons]] loved to keep up with the latest fads of [[avant-garde]] France here, and during "the season" sometimes stayed for weeks on end.

===Second World War===
[[File:Dieppe Dawn 19 August 1942 stained glass Currie Hall.JPG|thumb|right|125px|Dieppe Dawn, 19 August 1942, memorial stained glass, [[Royal Military College of Canada]]]]

During the [[Second World War]] Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the [[fall of France]] in 1940. In order to allow a better defence of the coast against a possible [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] landing, the Germans destroyed the mauresque casino that was located near the beach area. The destruction of the casino had only begun at the time of the [[Dieppe Raid]].

The raid proved a costly lesson for the Allies. On 19 August 1942, Allied soldiers, mainly drawn from the [[2nd Canadian Infantry Division]], landed at Dieppe in the hope of occupying the town for a short time, gaining intelligence and drawing the ''[[Luftwaffe]]'' into open battle. The Allies suffered more than 1,400 deaths, 907 Canadian, and 1,946 Canadian soldiers were captured – more prisoners than the army lost in the 11 months of the [[Western Front (World War II)|1944–45 NW Europe campaign]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dieppe-raid |title=Dieppe Raid |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |date=15 August 2017 |first=Alex |last=Hard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510075030/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002292  |archive-date=2008-05-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, no major objectives were achieved. More recent research suggests the raid was a massive cover for an intelligence operation to capture German code machine components.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/a-new-look-at-the-dieppe-raid |title=A New Look at the Dieppe Raid - Canada's History |access-date=2021-05-08 |archive-date=2021-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509062135/https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/a-new-look-at-the-dieppe-raid |url-status=live }}</ref>

French soldiers from the region, captured in the fighting of 1940, were returned to the area after the Dieppe Raid as a reward by the German occupation authorities, who felt that the conduct of the French civilians in Dieppe had been correct and had not hindered the defence of the port during the battle.

The port remained garrisoned by German forces until the conclusion of the [[Operation Overlord|Battle of Normandy]]. When the [[First Canadian Army]] approached at the end of August, the garrison withdrew, not desiring to enter into battle for the port.

[[Operation Fusilade|Dieppe was liberated]] on 1 September 1944, by soldiers from the [[2nd Canadian Infantry Division]]. On 3 September, the entire division paused for reorganization, and a victory parade was held; contingents representing all major units of the 2nd Division marched 10 abreast behind the massed pipes and drums of the division's highland regiments. A memorial service was held in the nearby Canadian military cemetery to honour those killed in the Dieppe Raid.<ref>Stacey C. P., ''[[Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War]]'', Volume III ''The Victory Campaign''</ref>

===Post-war===
Starting on 10 June and ending on 11 June 1945, a soldier named Abd el Maleck, armed with a pistol, slew 15 people and wounded 9 others after getting drunk.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maniac Amok in Dieppe, Kills 14, Wounds Nine – Army News (Darwin, NT: 1941–1946) – 21 Jun 1945 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47719447 |access-date=2024-10-13 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title="Killer loose in Rouen; Drunken Maniac With Rifle Slays 14 in Two Days" |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/12/archives/killer-loose-in-rouen-drunken-maniac-with-rifle-slays-14-in-two.html}}</ref> He was captured on 11 June after being wounded. Maleck was court-martialed for murder and sentenced to death on 22 September 1945. He was executed by firing squad on 14 February 1946.<ref>{{Cite web |title=dieppe 1939-1949 l'aprés guerre |url=http://delamarejean.free.fr/dieppe_1944/apres.html |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=delamarejean.free.fr}}</ref>

[[Dieppe, New Brunswick|Dieppe]], a city in [[New Brunswick]], Canada, received its present name in 1946, in honour of the commemoration of the 913 Canadian soldiers killed in the Dieppe Raid. The majority of its inhabitants are of [[Acadian]] descent.<ref>[[:fr:Dieppe (Nouveau-Brunswick)]]</ref>

[[File:France.Dieppe.City.Panorama.July2011.jpg|thumb|700px|left|Panoramic view of Dieppe (taken from a hill close to the castle [[Château de Dieppe]])]]
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==Geography==
Dieppe belongs to the [[Pays de Caux]], lying along the [[Côte d'Albâtre|Alabaster Coast]] in the [[Regions of France|region]] of [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]].
It is located on the Channel coast, north of Rouen at the mouth of the river [[Arques (river)|Arques]] and lies east of the mouth of the river [[Scie (river)|Scie]].

==Climate==
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|Jan record high C = 16.4
|Feb record high C = 19.4
|Mar record high C = 23.8
|Apr record high C = 27.6
|May record high C = 31.9
|Jun record high C = 35.4
|Jul record high C = 40.1
|Aug record high C = 36.1
|Sep record high C = 32.7
|Oct record high C = 27.4
|Nov record high C = 21.0
|Dec record high C = 16.9
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|Feb high C = 7.9
|Mar high C = 10.3
|Apr high C = 12.3
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|Jul high C = 20.1
|Aug high C = 20.7
|Sep high C = 18.9
|Oct high C = 15.6
|Nov high C = 11.1
|Dec high C = 7.9
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|Jan mean C = 5.2
|Feb mean C = 5.2
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|Apr mean C = 9.1
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|Sep mean C = 15.4
|Oct mean C = 12.5
|Nov mean C = 8.5
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|Feb low C = 2.6
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|year low C = 8.0
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|Jul record low C = 5.8
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|Sep record low C = 1.2
|Oct record low C = −3.3
|Nov record low C = −8.0
|Dec record low C = −11.0
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|Nov humidity = 85
|Dec humidity = 85
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==Toponymy==
Mentioned as ''Deppae'' in 1015–1029, ''Dieppa'' in 1030, then in the 12th century: ''Deppa'', ''Deupa'' and ''Diopa''.<ref>François de Beaurepaire, ''Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Seine-Maritime'', éditions Picard 1979. p. 67.</ref>

From Old English ''dēop'' or Old Norse ''djúpr'' "deep", same meaning.<ref name="auto">Beaurepaire 67</ref> The Nominalization from an Old English or Norse adjective, being unusual, ''dēop'' / ''djúpr'' could be followed by the Old English word ''ǣ'' / ''ea'' or Old Norse ''á'' "stream, river" (cf. Djúpá, river in Iceland).<ref>Jean Renaud, ''Vikings et noms de lieux de Normandie'', OREP éditions, Cully, 2009, p. 40.</ref>

The same adjective can be recognized in other place-names like Dieppedalle (f. e. [[Saint-Vaast-Dieppedalle]]) and Dipdal in Normandy, which is the same as [[Deepdale]] in Great Britain.

The stream running through Dieppe was called ''Tella'' in [[Merovingian]] and [[Carolingian]] documents, before being called ''Dieppe'' in the 10th century. The name has stuck to the town, although the name of the stream changed again, to Béthune.<ref name="auto"/>

==Heraldry==
{{Blazon-arms
|img1=Blason Dieppe.svg
|legend1=Arms of Dieppe
|text=The arms of Dieppe are [[blazon]]ed:<br />''Per pale azure and gules, a 3-masted ship sails furled argent.''
}}

==Historical images of Dieppe==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Dieppe-port.jpg|View of Dieppe's ''Grand [[quay|quai]]''
File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Harbor of Dieppe - Google Art Project.jpg|[[J. M. W. Turner]], ''[[The Harbour of Dieppe]]'', 1826
File:The Basket Shop, Rue St Jean, Dieppe - Walter Richard Sickert - ABDAG000288.jpg|[[Walter Richard Sickert|Walter Sickert]], The Basket Shop, Rue St Jean, Dieppe, {{Circa|1911}} – 1912, [[Aberdeen Art Gallery]]
File:Boillot-ACF-GP1912.jpg|[[Georges Boillot]] winning the 1912 [[French Grand Prix]] in Dieppe
File:Carl Spitzweg 051.jpg|[[Carl Spitzweg]]'s painting ''Frauenbad in Dieppe III''
File:Frits Thaulow-Fra Dieppe med elven Arques.jpg|[[Frits Thaulow]]'s ''Fra Dieppe med elven Arques'' (''From Dieppe with the river Arques'')
File:Ernst Oppler - Beach.jpg|[[Ernst Oppler]] ''At the beach'' (c. 1912)
File:Nicolae Vermont - Plaja (la Dieppe).jpg|[[Nicolae Vermont]]'s painting ''View of Dieppe's beach'' (1929)
File:Flickr - …trialsanderrors - Old castle, Dieppe, France. ca. 1895.jpg|The castle in the 1890s
File:Dieppe 18 June 1945 RG373 AERIALFILM A6720 DN5852 OBL 067 01.jpg|Aerial photograph taken in June, 1945
File:Au Val Saint-Nicolas près Dieppe by Claude Monet.jpg|''Au Val Saint-Nicolas près Dieppe'' by Claude Monet. Painted 1897. Private collection.
</gallery>

==Population==
{{Historical populations
| align = none
| cols = 2
| percentages = pagr
| source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|11812|Dieppe}}</ref> and INSEE (1968–2017)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-76217#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924142750/https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-76217#ancre-POP_T1 |date=2022-09-24 }}, INSEE</ref>
| graph-pos = bottom
|1793 |25000
|1800 |20000
|1806 |18248
|1821 |16664
|1831 |16016
|1836 |16820
|1841 |16443
|1846 |16844
|1851 |17669
|1856 |19231
|1861 |20187
|1866 |19946
|1872 |19002
|1876 |20333
|1881 |22003
|1886 |23050
|1891 |22771
|1896 |22439
|1901 |22839
|1906 |23629
|1911 |23973
|1921 |24402
|1926 |24945
|1931 |25117
|1936 |25560
|1946 |21770
|1954 |26427
|1962 |30013
|1968 |30016
|1975 |39466
|1982 |35957
|1990 |35894
|1999 |34653
|2007 |33375
|2012 |30632
|2017 |29080
}}

==Sights==
The castle, [[Château de Dieppe]], which survived the 1694 bombardment, is now a museum and exhibition space, with a strong maritime collection. A rich collection of 17th- and 18th-century [[ivory]] carvings, including lacy folding fans, for which Dieppe was known, and the furnishings and papers of [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]. The castle's interior courtyard is picturesque.

At the Square du Canada, near the castle in a park at the western end of the Esplanade, there is a monument erected by the town commemorating the long relationship between Dieppe and [[Canada]]. The events recorded begin with the early 16th century, and culminate with the Dieppe Raid and the liberation of Dieppe by Canadians on 1 September 1944. The base of the monument is inscribed with the words "nous nous souvenons" ("we remember"). Above the monument, the [[Flag of Canada]] is flown side by side with that of France.

The [[Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel of Dieppe]] stands on the coast.

Some of the Canadian soldiers who were killed are buried in the [[Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery]], in the ''commune'' of [[Saint-Aubin-sur-Scie]] south-west of Dieppe.

<gallery mode="packed">
File:CastleDieppe.JPG|Château-musée de Dieppe
File:Château-musée de Dieppe.jpg|Château-musée
File:Dieppe.JPG|The harbour
File:Dieppe2.JPG|The waterfront
</gallery>

Various buildings and sights include:

*The small municipal theatre, reopened in 2002: the small municipal theater (1900) has been listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments since 1990. It has a Louis XV rockery with gilding style. Its Italian-style theatre, built by the engineer Frissard, was donated by the Duchess of Berry to the municipality in 1826. Rebuilt in 190{{clarification needed|date=September 2023}} and enlarged with a foyer facing the sea, it is contemporary with the Moorish casino and is one of the last vestiges of the time when Dieppe attracted the European aristocracy and upper middle class. Damaged during the Second World War, its facades were covered in cement in the 1960s. The theater was closed in 1961. The theater has been a source of political controversy, especially in 2007 when a rehabilitation project was proposed by the municipal majority at the time but fought by the local opposition.
*The casino, inaugurated in 1961 in the presence of [[Robert Buron]], Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism, succeeds the Moorish casino and the Art Deco casino of the 1930s. It is mainly located on the site of the former Villa Rachel which was demolished to allow its construction. It has a remarkable architecture.
*L'Estran Cité de la mer, an associative center for scientific and technical culture on the theme of the Upper Normandy coast, presents over 1,600 m2 of exhibition space, shipbuilding, fishing techniques, the coastal environment and fauna of the English Channel.
*The underground aqueduct, also called the aqueduct of the blue source, is a gravity aqueduct which was drilled in the 16th century by the engineer Toustain under the plateau of Janval. Over 6.7&nbsp;km, it once brought water from an abundant source located in Petit-Appeville to the city, and is still used in 2022 for the electricity and telecommunications networks.
*The water tower, in the Vertus district at the entrance to the city of Dieppe, was built in 1971 by the architect Herbelin. It has been decorated since 1973 with a polychrome fresco by Victor Vasarely, made up of orange and black diamonds on a blue background.
*A new seaside resort inaugurated on May 15, 2007, contains an outdoor seawater swimming pool, several indoor leisure pools and a thalassotherapy center.
*A Canadian military cemetery is present in Dieppe.

==Transport==
[[Dieppe station|Dieppe railway station]], operated by [[SNCF]], has frequent departures for [[Gare de Rouen Rue Verte|Rouen-Rive-Droite]]. SNCF operates also buses to [[Gisors]]-Embranchement through [[Serqueux, Seine-Maritime|Serqueux]].

Dieppe has a ferry port with direct services to the [[England|English]] town of [[Newhaven, East Sussex|Newhaven]], situated at the mouth of the [[River Ouse, Sussex|River Ouse]] in [[East Sussex]]. The twice-daily service to the [[Port of Newhaven]] is operated by [[DFDS Seaways France|DFDS Seaways]], under a concession subsidised by the French government. Services are operated using the [[MS Côte D'Albâtre]] and MS Seven Sisters.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ship Overview {{!}} Dieppe to Newhaven {{!}} DFDS |url=https://www.dfds.com/en-gb/passenger-ferries/onboard/newhaven-dieppe/ship-overview |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=DFDS A/S |language=en-GB}}</ref>

=== Current services ===
*[[DFDS Seaways France|DFDS Seaways]] (Newhaven: three sailings daily)

=== Former services ===
*[[Hoverspeed]] (Newhaven: three sailings daily). Withdrawn in 2004.
*P&O Stena Line (Newhaven: three sailings daily). Withdrawn in 1999.

==Administration==
The current mayor of Dieppe is Nicolas Langlois. A member of the [[French Communist Party]], he was elected in 2017, and re-elected in 2020.

==Economy==
Historically a major fishing hub, it is still home to a large [[ferry port]] and one of the [[List of busiest ports in Europe|busiest ports in Europe]]; in the 17th century the [[first French East Indies Company]] operated from the port. Until the mid-19th century the [[Ave Maria lace]], a hand-made lace manufacturer, was largely based in Dieppe. The town is now home to the [[Alpine Automobiles]] global headquarters.

==Sport==
The town is home to [[FC Dieppe]], one of the oldest [[association football|football]] clubs in the country having been founded in 1896.

==International relations==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}

Dieppe is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with
*{{flagicon|UK}}
*{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Dieppe, New Brunswick]], Canada

==Notable people==
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[[File:Jean Ribault.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Jean Ribault]]]]
[[File:Buste de Duquesne exposé au Musée de la Marine.jpg|thumb|right|130px|[[Abraham Duquesne]]]]
[[File:Albert Réville (1826-1906).jpg|thumb|130px|[[Albert Réville]]]]
[[File:Broglie Big.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Louis de Broglie]], 1929]]
[[File:Emmanuel Petit.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Emmanuel Petit]], 2005]]

*[[Jean Ango]] (1480–1551), ship owner, provided ships to [[Francis I of France]]
*[[Jean Parmentier (explorer)|Jean Parmentier]] (1494–1529), navigator, cartographer and poet
*[[Jean Cousin (navigator)|Jean Cousin]] (15th century), [[Normandy|Normand]] navigator
*[[Jean Ribault]] (1520–1565), French navigator and corsaire Protestant<ref>{{cite EB9 |wstitle = Jean Ribault |volume= XX |last=|first= |author-link=| pages=|short=1}}</ref>
*[[Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit]], (ca.1550–1603), naval and military captain and Huguenot trader at [[Honfleur]]
*[[Salomon de Caus]] (1576–1626), Huguenot engineer
*[[Isaac de Caus]] (1590–1648), landscaper and architect, worked in London
*[[Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan]] (ca.1600–1673), French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect
*St. [[Antoine Daniel]] SJ, (1601–1648), Jesuit missionary, martyr and saint
*[[Jan Asselyn|Jean Asselin]] (ca.1610–1652), a [[Dutch Golden Age painting|Dutch Golden Age]] painter and drawer
*[[Abraham Duquesne]] (1610–1688), general lieutenant of the French Navy<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Duquesne, Abraham |volume = 8 |last= |first= |author-link= |page=691 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Jean Crasset]] (1618–1692), Jesuit theologian and [[ascetical]] writer
*[[Jean Pecquet]] (1622–1674), physiologist, wrote on [[psychology]] and investigated the [[thoracic duct]]
*[[Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay]], (1626–1685), colonist of [[New France]], first lord of [[Longueuil]]
*[[Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]] (1638–1712), priest, biblical critic, orientalist and historian<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Simon, Richard |volume = 25 |last= |first= |author-link= |pages=130-131 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Jean Mauger]] (1648–1712), an ivory engraver and medallist
*[[Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière]] (1662–1746), polymath, map-writer and scientist
*[[Gabriel de Clieu]] (ca.1687–1774), naval officer and the governor of [[Guadeloupe]] 
*St. [[Jean de Lalande]] SJ, a 17th-century [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] brother, martyred by the [[Iroquois]] Indians in [[New York State]]
*[[Adrien de Pauger]] (died 1726), engineer and architect of the [[Vieux Carré]] at [[New Orleans]]
*[[Joseph Lavallée]] (1747–1816), poet, journalist and novelist
*[[François-Antoine-Henri Descroizilles]] (1751–1825), chemist
*[[Antoine Louis Albitte]] (1761–1812), Revolutionary politician
*[[Jean-Louis Albitte]] (1763–1825), politician, "Albitte the younger"
*[[Antoine Année]] (1770–1846), playwright and journalist
*[[Mary Anne Atwood]] (1817–1910), an English writer on [[hermeticism]] and spiritual [[alchemy]]
*[[Bruno Braquehais]] (1823–1875), photographer, worked in Paris
*[[Albert Réville]] (1826–1906), Protestant theologian with 'extremist' liberal views<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Réville, Albert |volume = 23 |last= |first= |author-link= |page=224 |short=1}}</ref>
*[[Victor Langlois (historian)|Victor Langlois]] (1829–1869), historian, archaeologist, professor, numismatist and orientalist
*[[Maude Valérie White]] (1855–1937), English composer and songwriter
*[[Emmanuel Louis Masqueray]] (1861–1917), Franco-American architect 
*[[Ernest Henri Dubois]] (1863–1930), sculptor
*[[Louis Valtat]] (1869–1952), painter and printmaker associated with the [[Fauvism|Fauves]]
*[[André Alerme]] (1877–1960), film actor from 1931 to 1952
*[[Louis de Broglie]] (1892–1987), [[Nobel Prize]]–winning physicist, contributed to [[Old quantum theory|quantum theory]]
*[[Simonne Vidal]] (1894–1944), wife and assistant of the historian [[Marc Bloch]]
*[[Mary Odette]] (1901–1987), silent film actress
*[[Yvonne Lephay-Belthoise]] (1914–2011), virtuoso violinist
*[[Valérie Lemercier]] (born 1964), actress, screenwriter, director and singer
*[[Olivier Frébourg]] (born 1965), journalist, writer and publisher
*[[Thomas Pesquet]] (born 1978), astronaut, aerospace engineer and pilot

=== Sport ===
*[[Albert Clément]] (1883–1907), motor racing driver
*[[Jean Rédélé]] (1922–2007), car racer and founder of the [[Alpine (automobile)|Alpine]] car factory
*[[Jéhan Le Roy]] (1923–1992), equestrian, team bronze medallist at the [[1960 Summer Olympics]]
*[[Jean-Paul Villain]] (born 1946), steeplechase runner
*[[Emmanuel Petit]] (born 1970), former footballer with 385 club caps and 63 with [[France national football team|France]]
*[[Laurent Capet]] (born 1972), volleyball player

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<!-- *[[Albert-Joseph Dupont]] (1851), architect -->
<!-- *[[Georges-Paul Vasselin]] (1855), ship owner -->
<!--*[[Adolphe-Félix-Auguste Chavatre]] (1860), politician -->
<!-- *[[Edmond Corue]] (1860–), ship owner -->
<!-- *[[Eugène Benet]] (1863–1942), sculptor -->
<!-- *[[Jules Marie Josse Hardy]] (1869), librarian -->
<!-- *[[Joseph-Marie-Fortuné Guedon]] (1873), sculptor -->
<!-- *[[Georges Marchand]] (1876), photographer -->
<!-- *[[Edmond Leveau]] (1876–1945), ship owner -->
<!-- *[[André Lebey]] (1877–), writer -->
<!-- *[[Auguste de La Force]] (1878–1961), historian -->
<!-- *[[Fernand Miellot]] (1882), architect -->
<!-- *[[Georges Guibon]] (1886), politician -->
<!-- *[[Achille Desjardins]] (1887), sport journalist -->
<!-- *[[Émile Giraud]] (1894), lawyer -->
<!-- *[[Georges Lebas]] (1934–), writer -->
<!-- *[[Marie Foubert]] (?–?), impressionist painter -->
<!-- *[[Thierry Gatinet]] (1957–), novelist -->
<!-- *[[Sophie Bassignac]] (born 1960), writer -->
<!-- *[[Laurent Lunoir]] (1976), singer, member of the bands Öxxö Xööx, Igorrr, Rïcïnn -->

==See also==
*[[Communes of the Seine-Maritime department]]
*[[Dieppe maps]]

==References==

===Notes===
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===Bibliography===
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*{{Citation |publisher=John Murray |location=London |title=A Handbook for Travellers in France |date=1861 |edition=8th |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/handbookfortrave1861john#page/n63/mode/2up |chapter=Dieppe |ol=24627024M}}
*{{Citation |publisher=Karl Baedeker |location=Leipsic |title=Northern France |date=1899 |oclc=2229516 |edition=3rd |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/northernfrance00karl#page/38/mode/2up |chapter=Dieppe |ol=24872324M}}
*{{cite book |last1=Cowsill |first1=Miles |last2=Hendy |first2=John |title=Newhaven-Dieppe: The Car Ferry Era |date=1994 |publisher=Ferry Publications |location=Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire |isbn=1871947200}}
*Pakenham, Simona. ''Pigtails and Pernod'', London: Macmillan, 1961.
*Pakenham, Simona. ''Sixty Miles from England: The English at Dieppe 1814-1914'', London: Macmillan, 1967.
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==External links==
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*A tragedy in Dieppe with Oscar Wilde [http://www.normandythenandnow.com/the-importance-of-being-sebastian-in-dieppe/ The importance of being Sebastian - in Dieppe - Normandy Then and Now]
*[http://www.dieppe.fr/ Dieppe Town Council website]
*[http://www.mainlymono.co.uk/dieppe Gare Maritime Photographs]
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