List of Famous people born in France

Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée was a French philosopher.

Henri-Joseph Harpignies was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school.

Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars. Spears was a retired Brigadier General of the British Army, and served as a Member of the British House of Commons. From 1917 to 1920 he was head of the British Military Mission in Paris.

Francis Lopez (1916–1995) was a French composer of film scores. He also wrote a number of operettas, many of which starred Luis Mariano. He was married several times including to the actress Sylvia Lopez.

Yves Frantz Loys Marie Le Pelley du Manoir, known as Yves du Manoir was a French rugby player.

Pierre Lazareff (1907–1972) was a French newspaper editor and publisher.

Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics: developing, with British psychologist Deirdre Wilson, relevance theory in the latter; and an approach to cultural evolution known as the epidemiology of representations in the former. Sperber currently holds the positions of Directeur de Recherche émérite at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Director of the International Cognition and Culture Institute.

Pierre Pansu is a French mathematician and a member of the Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of Mikhail Gromov. He is a professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His main research field is geometry. His contribution to mathematics is being celebrated by a double event co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Frédéric Rodriguez-Luz, also known as Frédéric Luz, is a French writer and heraldist. He is also the current pretender to the "throne" of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia, "an ephemeral 19th-century state." This has also been described as a "non-existent kingdom not recognized by any State" currently represented by a French non-profit organization dedicated to international campaigning on behalf of the Mapuche people.

Étienne Becker is a French Director of Photography.