List of Famous people born in France

Jean-Baptiste Corneille was a French painter, etcher, and engraver.

Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer was a banker that ran his family owned Swiss bank Hottinger & Cie taking over from his father Baron Jean–Henri Hottinguer in 1866. He passed on the bank to his son Baron Henri Hottinguer at the age of 83. He was born in Paris in 1835 and died there in 1920.

Paul Edme de Musset was a French writer.

Jacques-Émile Blanche was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.

Suzanne Bachelard was a French philosopher and academic. In 1958, she published La Conscience de la rationalité. She was the daughter of philosopher Gaston Bachelard whose posthumous book Fragments d'une Poétique du Feu she edited. She taught at the Sorbonne, where she also had Jacques Derrida as her assistant. She was the first translator to French of Edmund Husserl Formal and Transcendental Logic.

Villard de Honnecourt was a 13th-century master mason from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or "sketchbook" containing about 250 drawings and designs of a wide variety of subjects.