List of Famous people born in France

François Louis Jean-Joseph de Laborde (1761-1801) was a French banker, deputy for the Third Estate to the Estates General of 1789 and garden-lover. He also bore the name Méréville after his huge estate at château de Méréville in Beauce, acquired by his father under Louis XVI.

Serge Letchimy is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the island of Martinique's 3rd constituency since June 2007, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group. Letchimy is a member of the Martinican Progressive Party (PPM), or Parti progressiste martiniquais. He was the successor of Aimé Césaire as Mayor of Fort de France from 2001 to 2010 and was the final President of the Regional Council of Martinique from 26 March 2010 until its replacement by the Assembly of Martinique in December 2015.

Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general. Ducrot served in the Crimean War, Algeria, the Italian campaign of 1859, and as a division commander in the Franco-Prussian War.

Germaine Deschanel was the well-born wife of Paul Deschanel, the French statesman-academician who served as President of France from 18 February to 21 September 1920.

Gaspard I de Coligny, Count of Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (1465/1470–1522), known as the Marshal of Châtillon, was a French soldier.

Guy I of Dampierre, son of Thibaut of Dampierre-sur-l’Aube and Elizabeth of Montlhéry, daughter of Milo I of Montlhéry, Viscount of Troyes. Seigneur of Dampierre, Saint-Dizier, and Moëlain.

John Cranch Walker Vivian was an English Liberal politician from the Vivian family who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1841 and 1871.

Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger was a French painter and musicologist, specializing in North African and Arabic music.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.