List of Famous people born in France
Yuksek
Pierre-Alexandre Busson better known as Yuksek, is a French electronic music producer, remixer, singer and DJ. Yüksek means "high" in Turkish.
Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg
Johan Caspar Herman Wedel Jarlsberg was a Norwegian statesman and count. He played an active role in the constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814 and was the first native Norwegian to hold the post of Governor-general of Norway with the authority of a viceroy, representing the absent king of Norway as head of the Norwegian cabinet during the union with Sweden.
Jessica Cérival
Jessica Cérival is a French track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put.
Joseph de Riquet de Caraman
Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prince de Chimay was a Belgian diplomat and industrialist.
Julie Vlasto
Pénélope Julie "Diddie" Vlasto Serpieri was a female tennis player from France. She won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924 in women's singles, losing the final to Helen Wills Moody. Vlasto also won the version of the French national championships in 1924 that was open only to French nationals. She was a doubles partner of Suzanne Lenglen in many doubles tournaments during the early 1920s.
Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny
Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st Duc de Cadore was a French admiral and politician.
Philippe de Commines
Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times". Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
Jack Depp
Jean-Pierre Mustier
UniCredit S.p.A. is an international banking group headquartered in Milan. It is Italy's only systemically important bank and the world's 34th largest by assets. It was formed through the merger of Credito Italiano and Unicredito in 1998, but has a corporate identity stretching back to its first foundation in 1870 as Banca di Genova. UniCredit is listed on the Milan and Frankfurt stock exchanges, is a constituent stock of the Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading shares.
Timothée Adolphe
Timothée Adolphe is a blind French Paralympic athlete who competes in sprinting events in international level events. He participates in sprinting events with running guides Bruno Naprix and Jeffrey Lami.