List of Famous people born in France

Aimé Cotton

First Name Aimé
Last Name Cotton
Born on October 9, 1869
Died on April 16, 1951 (aged 81)

Aimé Auguste Cotton was a French physicist known for his studies of the interaction of light with chiral molecules. In the absorption bands of these molecules, he discovered large values of optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), or variation of optical rotation as a function of wavelength, as well as circular dichroism or differences of absorption between left and right circularly polarized light.

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Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï

First Name Aimar-Charles-Marie
Born on August 14, 1747
Died on July 7, 1794 (aged 46)

Aimar-Charles-Marie Nicolaï was a French magistrate in the Ancien Régime of France. He was the first president of the Chambre des Comptes, and the seventh member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1788.

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Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta

First Name Prince
Last Name Savoy-Aosta
Born on March 7, 2009 (age 17)
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Adrien Alban Tournachon

First Name Adrien
Last Name Tournachon
Died on January 24, 1903
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Jean-Pierre Michaël

First Name Jean-Pierre
Last Name Michaël
Born on September 21, 1966 (age 60)
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Agnès Spaak

First Name Agnès
Last Name Spaak
Born on April 29, 1944 (age 82)

Agnès Spaak is a French-Belgian actress and photographer. She appeared in more than twenty films since 1962. Her father is screenwriter Charles Spaak and her sister is Catherine Spaak, an actress.

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Paul Baudoüin

Paul Albert Baudoüin
First Name Paul
Last Name Baudoüin
Born on October 24, 1844
Died on December 26, 1931 (aged 87)
Born in France, Normandy
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Paul Berliet

Paul Louis François Berliet
First Name Paul
Last Name Berliet
Born on October 5, 1918
Died on August 7, 2012 (aged 93)
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Bernhard Bettermann

First Name Bernhard
Last Name Bettermann
Born on February 6, 1965 (age 61)
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Paul Bouchet

Paul Alexis Marie Bouchet
First Name Paul
Last Name Bouchet
Born on August 2, 1924
Died on March 25, 2019 (aged 94)
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