List of Famous people born in France

Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle was a French general and statesman.

Luigi Federico Menabrea, later made 1st Count Menabrea and 1st Marquess of Valdora, was an Italian general, statesman and mathematician who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 1867 to 1869.

Pierre Tal-Coat was a French artist considered to be one of the founders of Tachisme.

Hervé Alphand was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States, from 1956 to 1965.

Pierre-Henri Simon was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He won the Prix Ève Delacroix in 1963

David Rousset was a French writer and political activist, a recipient of Prix Renaudot, a French literary award. A survivor of the Neuengamme concentration camp and the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, he is famous for his books about concentration camps.