List of Famous people born in France

Marie Duhem, born Marie Amélie Hortense Sergeant was a French painter.

Léon Cogniet was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.

Arsène Darmesteter was a distinguished French philologist and man of letters.

Jérôme Tharaud was a French writer. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1906, and was elected the fifteenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1938.

Paul Joseph Jean Poupard is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a Cardinal since 1985. He held positions in the Roman Curia for more than 25 years, serving as President of the Pontifical Council for Culture from 1988 to 2007 and briefly as President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Marietta Martin (1902–1944) was a French writer, journalist and French Resistance worker. She was an editor of La France Continue, a clandestine Resistance newspaper, transformed, after her death, into Ici Paris.