List of Famous people born in France
Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy
Amadeus VI, nicknamed the Green Count was Count of Savoy from 1343 to 1383. He was the eldest son of Aymon, Count of Savoy, and Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat. Though he started under a regency, he showed himself to be a forceful leader, continuing Savoy's emergence as a power in Europe politically and militarily. He participated in a crusade against the Turks who were moving into Europe.
Jean Peyrelevade
Jean Peyrelevade is a senior French center-left politician and business leader.
Mathé Altéry
Mathé Altéry is a French soprano prominent in the 1950s and 1960s. Mathé Altéry is the daughter of French tenor Mario Altéry.
Georges Chamarat
Georges Chamarat was a French actor. He appeared in 109 films and television shows between 1929 and 1981. He starred in the film The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Nicolas Philibert
Nicolas Philibert is a French film director and actor.
Mirra Alfassa
Mirra Alfassa, known to her followers as The Mother, was a French spiritual guru, an occultist and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name "The Mother". She founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and established Auroville as a universal town; she was an influence and inspiration to many writers and spiritual personalities on the subject of Integral Yoga.
Camille Chautemps
Camille Chautemps was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council of Ministers.
Auguste Casimir-Perier
Auguste Victor Laurent Casimir-Perier was a French diplomat and political leader. He was the son of Casimir Pierre Perier and the father of President Jean Casimir-Perier.
Gréco Casadesus
Gréco Casadesus is a French composer specialized in film scores. Born in Paris from a large family of artists, he has composed more than a hundred of musical creations for television, cinema, performances, and theatre.
Giovanni Sio
Giovanni-Guy Yann Sio is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği and the Ivory Coast national team.