title: Desportes
text: # Desportes
  
  Desportes is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Alexandre-François Desportes (1661–1743), French painter
  * Émile Desportes (1878–1944), French classical composer and conductor
  * Hélène Desportes (1620–1675)
  * Narcisse Henri François Desportes (1776–1856), French botanist and bibliographer
  * Nicolas Desportes (1718–1787), French painter
  * Philippe Desportes (1546–1606), French poet
  * Vincent Desportes (born 1953), French general and military theorist
  * Yvonne Desportes (1907–1993), French classical composer, writer and music educator
  