List of Famous people born in France

Gérard Férey was a French chemist who was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. He specialized in the physical chemistry of solids and materials. He focused on the crystal chemistry of inorganic fluorides and on porous solids.

Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Maurice Sarraut was the older brother of Albert Sarraut.

René Louis Jean Challan was a French classical composer, impresario and art director for French record labels. René Challan was composer Henri Challan's twin brother and harpist Annie Challan's father.

Jacqueline Lichtenstein was a French philosopher, art historian, and professor of aesthetics and the philosophy of art at the University of Paris IV - Paris-Sorbonne.

Charles Hedrich is a French sportsman, alpinist, rower and skipper. He is known for his achievements on all terrains of the world: Ocean, climbing, pole, desert, and forest.

Charles Picard was a prominent Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient Greek art. He is best known for his multi-volume, monumental survey, Manuel d'archéologie grecque: La sculpture. Volume I, was published in 1935. He completed the second fascicule of Volume IV in 1963. Picard was elected member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1932.