List of Famous people born in France

Adel Bencherif is a French actor. He is best known for his role in the 2009 film A Prophet.

Yacine Nasr Eddine Brahimi is a professional footballer who plays for and captains the Qatari club Al-Rayyan and the Algeria national team. He plays as an attacking midfielder and a winger and is described as a "technically gifted player". His coach, Frédéric Antonetti, declared Brahimi would be the "future play-maker of Stade Rennais". Yacine is also known for his "Brahimi Moments".

Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard, known by her stage name Danièle Delorme, was a French actress and film producer.

Jean-Pierre Melville was a French filmmaker and actor.

Éric Judor is a French actor, comedian and filmmaker, known for his comedy duo Éric and Ramzy with Ramzy Bedia.

Françoise Brion is a French film actress. She has appeared in 75 films since 1957. She starred in the 1963 film L'Immortelle, which was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. She was married to Jacques Doniol-Valcroze.

Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat, known professionally as Arletty, was a French actress, singer, and fashion model. She was found guilty of treason for an affair with a German officer during World War II, but she continued her career which included playing Blanche in the French version of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. Since 2015, she has been a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing". This was the first science Nobel ever won by two women.

Élie Semoun is a French comedian, actor, director, writer and singer.

David Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and—with Max Weber—is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science.