List of Famous people born in France
Bon Boullogne
Bon Boullogne was a French painter.
John, Duke of Berry
John of Berry or John the Magnificent was Duke of Berry and Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier. He was the third son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg; his brothers were King Charles V of France, Duke Louis I of Anjou and Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy. He is primarily remembered as a collector of the important illuminated manuscripts and other works of art commissioned by him, such as the Très Riches Heures. His personal motto was Le temps venra.
Maurice Leenhardt
Maurice Leenhardt, was a French pastor and ethnologist specialising in the Kanak people of New Caledonia.
Camille Kouchner
Camille Kouchner, is a lawyer, French academic and lecturer in private law. With her book, La familia grande, she initiated the Duhamel scandal.
Bill GB Pallot
Bill G.B. Pallot is an art historian, art expert, collector and lecturer at the Sorbonne University . He was honored with the French distinction of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Chevalier (1997) and he is now Officier in the same distinction (2011). In 2016, he was indicted for making and selling false eighteenth century furniture, some of which were sold to the Palace of Versailles.
Éveline Lot-Falck
Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch
Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch, was the only child and heiress of Count James of Zweibrücken-Bitsch by his wife Catherine, born Countess of Honstein zu Klettenberg. She was buried in Ingwiller.
Jacques Corrèze
Jacques Corrèze was a French businessman and politician. He was the chief executive officer of the United States-based operation of L'Oréal for the Americas (Cosmair), the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty products. He was the secretary of Eugène Deloncle.
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Mathilde Bonnefoy is a French film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film Run Lola Run (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary Citizenfour (2014). She and her husband Dirk Wilutzky additionally served as producers of Citizenfour with its director Laura Poitras, and the three received the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.