List of Famous people born in France

Louis Phélypeaux comte de Saint-Florentin, marquis (1725) and duc de La Vrillière (1770), was a French politician.

François de Coligny (1557–1591) comte de Coligny and seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Loing was a French Protestant general of the Wars of Religion. He was the son of Gaspard II de Coligny (1519–1572), Admiral of France.

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly.

Julie Wolkenstein is a French writer born in 1968 in Paris. She is the daughter of academician Bertrand Poirot-Delpech and, by her mother, the granddaughter of French industrialist Maurice Jordan.

Louis Stanislas de Girardin was a French general, prefect, and deputy.

Geneviève Halévy, later Geneviève Bizet and Geneviève Straus, was a French salonnière. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de Crécy in À la recherche du temps perdu.

Émilie Delorme, an engineer by training, has a career in the management of cultural institutions in France. On 14 December 2019 Delorme was appointed as the first woman director of the Conservatoire de Paris in its 224-year history, to start in the position on 1 January 2020.

Madeleine Castaing was a French antiques dealer and interior designer of international renown. She was the friend and the sponsor of many artists, including Soutine, who made her portrait in 1928. Original, even whimsical, she revolutionized the world of decoration, creating the style Castaing which is now a reference.

François Leclerc du Tremblay, also known as Père Joseph, was a French Capuchin friar, confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu. He was the original éminence grise—the French term for a powerful advisor or decision-maker who operates secretly or unofficially.

Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé was a French archaeologist, diplomat, and member of the Académie française in seat 18.