List of Famous people born in France
Antoine Bibesco
Prince Antoine Bibesco was a Romanian aristocrat, lawyer, diplomat and writer.
Jacques Berthier
Jacques Berthier was a French composer of liturgical music, best known for writing much of the music used at Taizé.
Étienne Flandin
Étienne Jean Marie Flandin was a French magistrate and politician who was twice deputy of Yonne, and was then Senator of French India from 1909 to 1920.
Gilles Bernheim
Gilles Uriel Bernheim is a French-Israeli rabbi who was formerly the Chief Rabbi of France. Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, in 1952, he was elected by the general assembly of the Central Consistory chief rabbi of France on 22 June 2008, for a seven-year mandate starting from 1 January 2009. Until then, he had been rabbi of synagogue de la Victoire, the main synagogue in Paris, since 1 May 1997. The Chief Rabbi of France was respected as a scholar not only in the Jewish community but in the wider academic world. However, he resigned as chief rabbi in April 2013 before his term had ended, amid revelations of plagiarism and deception about his academic credentials.
Pierre Taittinger
Pierre-Charles Taittinger was the founder of the Taittinger champagne house and chairman of the municipal council of Paris in 1943–1944 during the German occupation of France, in which position he played a role during the Liberation of Paris.
Émile Froment-Meurice
Pierre Vallon
Pierre Vallon was a French businessman and politician. He was an heir to Vallon et Compagnie, a silk company based in La Croix-Rousse, Lyon. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1974 to 1995.
Renée Balibar
Émile Chautemps
Émile Chautemps was a French politician.
Pierre Lenhardt
Pierre Lenhardt was a French Catholic religious theologian in the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion.