List of Famous people born in France
Maud Fontenoy
Maud Fontenoy is a French sailor known for her rowings across the Atlantic (2003) and Pacific (2005) oceans.
Bernard Cazeneuve
Bernard Guy Georges Cazeneuve is a French politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 December 2016 to 10 May 2017. A member of the Socialist Party, he was first elected in 1997 to the National Assembly representing the 5th constituency of the Manche department; he became Mayor of Cherbourg-Octeville in 2001.
Véronique de Viguerie
Véronique de Viguerie is a French photojournalist. She was noted for covering a story about an Afghan guerrilla group responsible for the Uzbin Valley ambush.
Anne Parillaud
Anne Parillaud is a French actress who has been active since 1977. She is best known internationally for playing the title character in Luc Besson's film La Femme Nikita.
Charlotte Corday
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken through his role as a politician and journalist. Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was depicted in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, which shows Marat's dead body after Corday had stabbed him in his medicinal bath. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat.
Cécile Coulon
Cécile Coulon is a French novelist, poet and short story writer. As of 2020, she has published seven novels, two poetry collections and one short story collection. She has been awarded the Prix des libraires (2017) and the prix Guillaume Apollinaire (2018)
Philippe de Villiers
Philippe Marie Jean Joseph Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, Viscount de Villiers, known as Philippe de Villiers, is a French entrepreneur, politician and novelist. He is the founder of the Puy du Fou theme park in Vendée, which is centred around the history of France. Appointed Secretary of State for Culture in 1986 by President François Mitterrand, De Villiers entered the National Assembly the following year and the European Parliament in 1994.
Xavier de Moulins
Xavier de Moulins is a French journalist, television presenter and author.
Raïs M'Bolhi
Adi Raïs Cobos Adrien Ouahab M'Bolhi, known as Raïs M'Bolhi, is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Al-Ettifaq and plays for the Algeria national team.
Zoé Félix
Zoé Félix is a French actress.