List of Famous people born in France

Louis Antoine Ponchard was a 19th-century French operatic tenor and teacher.

Dominique Gillot is a French politician. She is a member of the Socialist Party and was the French Minister of Health from 1999 to 2001, as well as a member of the 11th National Assembly from 1997 to 1999. In 2001, she was elected mayor of Éragny-sur-Oise. She was reelected in 2008 but lost her bid for a third term in March 2014 to her right-wing opponent. She held the office of Senator of the French Republic since 2011. She did not seek reelection to the Senate when her term ended in 2017.

Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death.

Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia. She is one of the Windsor Beauties painted by Sir Peter Lely.

Henri de Gondi, duc de Retz (1590–1659) was a French nobleman of the Gondi family. He was the son of Charles de Gondi, duc de Retz and Antoinette, lady of Château-Gontier. He became duc de Retz on his father's death in 1596. He married Jeanne de Beaupreau, and they had 2 daughters.

Henri de Contenson was a French archaeologist and was the Research Director at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research.