List of Famous people born in France

Gaston Eugène Marie Bonnier was a French botanist and plant ecologist. The standard author abbreviation Bonnier is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Bonnier first studied at École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1873 to 1876. Together with Charles Flahault, he studied at Uppsala University in 1878. They published two articles about their impressions:

• Observations sur la flore cryptogamique de la Scandinavie
• Sur la distribution des végétaux dans la region moyenne de la presqu’ile Scandinave

Jean Bretonnière (1924–2001) was a French actor and singer. He was married to the actress Geneviève Kervine.

Henri Virlogeux was a French actor.

Adolphe Nourrit was a French operatic tenor, librettist, and composer. One of the most esteemed opera singers of the 1820s and 1830s, he was particularly associated with the works of Gioachino Rossini and Giacomo Meyerbeer.

Jonathan Kaplan is a French-born American film producer and director. His film The Accused (1988) earned actress Jodie Foster her first Oscar for Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Kaplan received five Emmy nominations for his roles directing and producing ER.

Francis Dreyfus was a French record producer, who focused on jazz and electronic music, publishing Jean-Michel Jarre's first commercially successful work, Oxygène.