text: Dijon is home to Dijon FCO, a football club with a men's team competing in the Championnat National and a women's team competing in the Division 1 Féminine. Dijon has a its own (Pro A) basketball club, JDA Dijon Basket. The Palais des Sports de Dijon serves as playground for the team and hosted international basketball events such as the FIBA EuroBasket 1999 in the past. Dijon is home to the Dijon Ducs ice hockey team, who play in the Magnus League. To the northwest, the race track of Dijon-Prenois hosts various motor sport events. It hosted the Formula 1 French Grand Prix on five occasions from 1974 to 1984.
  Colleges and universities
  Dijon hosts the main campus of the University of Burgundy
  École nationale des beaux-arts de Dijon
  European Campus of Sciences Po Paris
  Agrosup Dijon
  Burgundy School of Business
  Population
  Personalities
  John the Fearless (1371–1419), Duke of Burgundy
  Philip the Good (1396-1467), Duke of Burgundy
  Isabella of Portugal (1397-1471), Duchess of Burgundy
  Charles the Bold (1433–1477), Duke of Burgundy
  Claude-Louis Navier, mechanical engineer & physicist
  Jean Le Fèvre (canon) (1493–1565), lexicographer
  Charles Poisot (1822–1904), musicologist
  Edmond Debeaumarché (1906–1959), hero of the French Resistance
  Christian Allard (b. 1964), Member of the Scottish Parliament
  Claude Balbastre (1724–1799), composer
  Cécile Bart (born 1958), artist
  Jean-Marc Boivin (1951–1990), extreme sports specialist
  Fabrice Brégier (born in 1961), businessman, Chief Operating Officer of Airbus
  Antoine Bret (1717–1792), French playwright
  Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), bishop and theologist
  Madjid Bougherra (b. 1982), Rangers F.C. footballer
  Thierry Caens (b. 1958), classical trumpeter
  Laurent Chambertin (b. 1966), volleyball player
  Jane Frances de Chantal (Jeanne–Françoise Frémiot, baronne de Chantal, 1572–1641), founder of the Visitation Order