List of Famous people born in France
Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian is a popular French author of Armenian descent. He won the 2012 Prix Interallié for the novel "Oh...".
Bruno Massot
Bruno Massot is a French-German retired pair skater. Competing with Aljona Savchenko for Germany, he is the 2018 Olympic Champion, the 2018 World Champion, a two-time European silver medalist, and two-time German national champion.
Niska
Georges Stanislas Malif Dinga-Pinto, better known by the stage name Niska, is a French rapper from Évry, Essonne. He is signed to Universal Music France and Barclay Records. He was initially in the rap group Negro Deep before going solo. Niska is a derivative of his nickname Stany in reverse (Nista), replacing the "t" with a "k". Niska has released four albums, Charo Life (2015), Zifukoro (2016), Commando (2017) and Mr Sal (2019), with the first two reaching number 3 on SNEP, the official French Albums chart and the third and fourth topping the French chart.
Black M
Alpha Diallo, better known by his stage name Black Mesrimes or Black M, is a French rapper and singer-songwriter.
Gabriella Papadakis
Gabriella Maria Papadakis is a French ice dancer. With her partner, Guillaume Cizeron, she is the 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World champion, a five-time consecutive European champion (2015–2019), the 2017 and 2019 Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time French national champion (2015–2020). They have won ten gold medals on the Grand Prix series. Earlier in their career, they won silver at the 2012 Junior Grand Prix Final and at the 2013 World Junior Championships.
François Berléand
François Berléand is a French actor.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin
Jean-Jacques Bourdin is a French journalist, radio and television presenter. Since 2001, he has hosted the morning radio programme Bourdin Direct on RMC. Since 2018, he has also presented the monthly talk show Rien n'est impossible on RMC Story.
Mehdi Nebbou
Mehdi Nebbou is a film actor born in France.
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco–Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Gérard Collomb
Gérard Collomb is a French politician who served as Mayor of Lyon from 2001 to 2017 and again from 2018 until 2020. A member of La République En Marche! (REM) since he left the Socialist Party in 2017, he was Minister of the Interior in the First and Second Philippe government from 2017 to 2018. Disagreements with President Emmanuel Macron led Collomb to resign and return as Mayor of Lyon. He has been a councillor for both the City of Lyon and Lyon Metropolis since 2020.