List of Famous people born in France

Jean-Baptiste André Godin was a French industrialist, writer and political theorist, and social innovator. A manufacturer of cast-iron stoves and influenced by Charles Fourier, he developed and built an industrial and residential community within Guise called the Familistère de Guise. He ultimately converted it to cooperative ownership and management by workers.

Pierre Christin is a French comics creator and writer.

Louis Joseph Watteau, known as the Watteau of Lille was a French painter active in Lille.

Charles Duveyrier was a French playwright and Saint-Simonianism ideologist, born on April 12, 1803, in Paris, where he died on November 10, 1866.

Pierre Henri Révoil was a French painter in the troubadour style.

Jules Étienne Joseph Quicherat was a French historian and archaeologist.

Gilbert Grandval was a French Resistance activist who went on to become the military governor of the Saar Protectorate in 1945. He remained in post for a decade, although the nature of the job evolved and there were changes of title in 1948 and again in 1952 when he became, formally, the French ambassador to the Saarland. Subsequently, he became a government minister during the early years of the Fifth Republic.

Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville was a French writer who wrote under the pseudonym Gyp.