List of Famous people born in France
Jennifer Ayache
Charles-Gustave Stoskopf
Charles-Gustave Stoskopf (1907-2004) was an award-winning French architect. He designed buildings in Strasbourg, Colmar and Créteil. He won the second Prix de Rome in architecture in 1933.
Émile André
François-Émile André was a French architect, artist, and furniture designer. He was the son of the architect of Charles André and the father of two other architects, Jacques and Michel André.
Claude Wolff
Guy Gallopin
Guy Gallopin is a French former professional racing cyclist. He rode in five editions of the Tour de France and three editions of the Vuelta a España. His brothers Alain and Joël and his nephew Tony were also professional cyclists.
Jacqueline Pierreux
Jacqueline Pierreux was a French film and television actress. From the early 1970s onwards she also enjoyed success as a producer. She was the wife of scenarist Pierre Leaud and the mother of prolific film actor Jean-Pierre Leaud who starred in Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" and "Day For Night".
Louis Bonaparte
Napoleon Louis Josef Jérôme Bonaparte was a member of the Bonaparte family, a lieutenant-general in the Russian Army and governor of the province of Yerevan in 1905.
Pierre Frédéric Dorian
Pierre Frédéric Dorian was a French master blacksmith and radical Republican leader. He served as Minister of Public Works from 4 September 1870 – 19 February 1871. He was the grandfather of Pauline Ménard-Dorian.
Avitus
Eparchius Avitus was Roman emperor of the West from July 455 to October 456. He was a senator of Gallic extraction and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as Bishop of Piacenza.
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright.