List of Famous people born in France

Alain Lamassoure is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He was a member of Les Républicains, which is part of the European People's Party, and was the chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets from July 2009 until June 2014.

Jean Compagnon was a French officer and Général de corps d'armée.

Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was an influential French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings influenced the later works of Gérard de Nerval.

Élisabeth Morin-Chartier is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the West France constituency from 2009 European election until 2014. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Jean-Jacques Pauvert was a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the Story of O (1954) and the first edition of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon (1959).