List of Famous people born in France

Jacques Solomon was a French physicist and Marxist who played a central role in the debate over quantum mechanics in France in the 1930s and 1940s. He was killed by firing squad at Fort Mont-Valérien in 1942.

Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia was a daughter of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Militza Nicholaevna, born Princess of Montenegro. A great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, she was born in Nice and grew up in the last period of Imperial Russia, mostly in Znamenka, her father's summer palace near Peterhof.

Thierry Repentin is a French politician. He first served as the Junior Minister for Vocational Training and Apprenticeship and then as Secretary of State for European Affairs in the Jean Marc Ayrault II government from 2013 to 2014. In addition, he has been the mayor of Chambéry since 2020.

Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen was a French linguist. He was an important scholar of Semitic languages and especially of Ethiopian languages. He studied the French language and contributed much to general linguistics.

Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, activist and screenwriter. He founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy, and is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Sébastien Balibar is a French physicist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Charles-René de Bombelles was a French officer in the Austrian army, who, in 1834, entered in a morganatic marriage with Marie-Louise of Austria, the Duchess of Parma, former Empress of France, and the second wife of Napoleon, after serving as her chamberlain. He was her third husband, and she was his second wife, and their marriage was her second morganatic marriage. Later in his life, he became the Count of Bombelles.