List of Famous people born in France
Jaime Semprun
Jaime Semprún was a French essayist and translator. He was born and died in Paris.
Blanche Albane
Marie-Louise Carven
Marie-Louise Carven, born Carmen de Tommaso, was a French fashion designer who founded the house of Carven in 1945. She was noted for her designs for petite women, her use of lightweight fabrics such as lace and pink gingham, and for being one of the first couturieres to launch a prêt-à-porter line. She was the first Paris designer to patent a push-up bra.
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel, is a prominent French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice. Outside the scientific community, he is famous for his activism, as a climate alarmist or as a socialist.
Rémi Bonfils
Rémi Bonfils is a French rugby union player. He plays at hooker for Stade Français in the Top 14.
Maurice Nadeau
Maurice Nadeau was a French teacher, writer, literary critic, and editor. He was born in Paris.
Prince Luís Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
Luiz Gastão of Orléans-Braganza was a member of the House of Orléans-Braganza, and was descended from the Brazilian Imperial Family.
Charles Matton
Charles Matton, also known as Gabriel Pasqualini, was a multitalented French artist: painter, sculptor, illustrator, writer, photographer, screenwriter and a movie director.
Cédric Pineau
Cédric Pineau is a French former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2017 with the Ag2r–La Mondiale, Roubaix–Lille Métropole and FDJ teams.
Jacques Navadic
Jacques Navadic was a Broadcasting editor and journalist who joined Radio Luxembourg in 1955 as Director of information a post in which he stayed in until 1984, between 1975 and 1981 he was Programme Director before becoming President of RTL in 1984. He was born in Lille.