List of Famous people born in France
Ernest André
Stéphane Dumont
Stéphane Dumont is a French footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for Monaco, having previously played for Lille.
Marguerite Redo
Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne
Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French nobleman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. Given the title comte d'Évreux at birth, he later became a lieutenant of the King's armies. He is sometimes called Henri Louis. He had no children and thus no descendants.
Claudia Rouaux
Claudia Rouaux, born 13 October 1963 in Sainte-Gemmes-d'Andigné (Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician. Since February 2020 she has been the deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine's 3rd constituency in the National Assembly of France as a member of the Socialist Party. She succeeded François André following his death.
Joseph-Honoré-Léonce Sieyès
Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Jean-Baptiste van Loo was a French subject and portrait painter.
Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac
Jules de Polignac, 1st Duke of Polignac was a French nobleman and the husband of Yolande de Polastron, a confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. He became the first Duke of Polignac in 1780. He died at the age of seventy one in Little Russia, where he was given a manor by Catherine the Great.
Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decorated large oval platters featuring small animals in relief among vegetation, the animals apparently often being moulded from casts taken of dead specimens. It is often difficult to distinguish examples from Palissy's own workshop and those of a number of "followers" who rapidly adopted his style. Imitations and adaptations of his style continued to be made in France until roughly 1800, and then revived considerably in the 19th century.