List of Famous people born in France
Louis Say
Louis Auguste Say was a French businessman and economist. He founded large sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris, and the sugar company "Say", known after 1972 as Béghin-Say; as of 2002 it is a subsidiary of Tereos.
Jonathan Delaplace
Jonathan Delaplace is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Lorient in Ligue 1.
Marco Ilaimaharitra
Marco Ilaimaharitra is a Malagasy professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for the Belgian First Division A club Sporting Charleroi and the Madagascar national team. He is a former member of the under-19 and under-20 national teams of France.
Marie-José Chombart de Lauwe
Jo Schlesser
Joseph Schlesser was a French Formula One and sports car racing driver. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, including the 1968 French Grand Prix in which he was killed. He scored no championship points. He was the uncle of Jean-Louis Schlesser who himself became a Formula One driver in the 1980s.
Catherine Leterrier
Catherine Leterrier is a French costume designer.
Françoise Lugagne
Françoise Lugagne (1914–1991) was a French stage, film and television actress. She was married to the Belgian actor Raymond Rouleau and appeared alongside him in the 1945 fashion house drama Paris Frills as his spurned love interest.
André Derain
André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark was a Greek prince, soldier and anthropologist specialising in Tibetan culture and polyandry. Born in Paris and high in the line of succession to the Greek throne, Prince Peter was deemed to have forfeited his succession rights by marrying a twice-divorced Russian commoner, Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova. Following his first scientific voyage to Asia, Peter served as an officer of the Greek army during the Second World War. The Prince returned to Asia several more times for his research of Tibetan culture. He strongly protested against the royal family's treatment of his wife. After King Paul's death, he declared himself heir presumptive to the Greek throne, on the pretext that female dynasts had been unlawfully granted succession rights in 1952. Peter eventually separated from his wife and died childless in London.