List of Famous people born in France

Olivier Yohan Dacourt is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is also a former French international and is best known for his spells at English side Leeds United and Italian clubs Roma and Inter Milan.

Nordi Mukiele Mulere is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the France national team.

Niels Schneider is a French Canadian actor who has appeared in more than twenty films since 2007. In 2011 he won the Trophée Chopard Award for Male Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival.

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces. Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. He was the founder of Blériot Aéronautique, a successful aircraft manufacturing company.

Barbara Schulz is a French actress who won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for the 1999 film La Dilettante.

Marielle de Sarnez was a French politician of the centrist Democratic Movement party (MoDem). She was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2017, when she became Minister for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in May 2017. She resigned after a month due to a scandal involving alleged payment for work she did not perform, but was elected a few days later to represent the Paris 11th constituency in the National Assembly on the center-right La République En Marche! slate. She was a committed Europeanist as well as centrist, pushing MoDem to resist currents on each end of the political spectrum. She was a longtime collaborator with MoDem President and three-time candidate for the French Presidency, François Bayrou.

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.

Jean-Louis Aubert is a French singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and producer. He went on a solo career after the split of the rock band Téléphone that he co-founded.

Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and film director.

Nadine Morano is a French politician of the Republicains who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2014. She previously was a member of the National Assembly and a minister.