List of Famous people born in France

Dominique de Williencourt is a French cellist and composer, born in Lille in 1959.

Amaël Moinard is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Cofidis, BMC Racing Team and Arkéa–Samsic teams. In his first year with the BMC Racing Team in 2011, Moinard rode the Tour de France as a teammate for Cadel Evans who won the race.

Natacha Bouchart is a French politician and member of The Republicans (LR) and formerly Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Paul Burty Haviland was a French-American 20th-century photographer, writer and arts critic who was closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession.

Louis Lavelle was a French philosopher, considered one of the greatest French metaphysicians of the twentieth century. His magnum opus, La Dialectique de l'éternel présent (1922), is a systematic metaphysical work. Lavelle's other principal works include De l'Être (1928), De l'Acte (1937), Du Temps et de l'Eternité (1945), and De l'Âme Humaine (1951).

Ernest Pérochon (1885–1942) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1920 for his novel Nêne. Initially a teacher, he left his career in education in 1921 to pursue writing. He wrote poems, novels, as well as children’s literature.

Denise Tual, known as Denise Batcheff, was a French film editor and sound technician in the early 1930s.

Joan, often called Joan of Constantinople, ruled as Countess of Flanders and Hainaut from 1205 until her death. She was the elder daughter of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, and Marie of Champagne.