List of Famous people born in France

Hippolyte Destailleur was a French architect, interior designer, and collector. He is noted for his designs and restoration work for great châteaux in France and in England, as well as his collection of books, prints, and drawings, covering French artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, much of which is now in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

Yvonne Loriod was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.

Émile Duclaux was a French microbiologist and chemist born in Aurillac, Cantal.

Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas was a French politician.

Dany Dauberson, was a French singer and actress.

Georges Glaeser (1918–2002) was a French mathematician who was director of the IREM of Strasbourg. He worked in analysis and mathematical education and introduced Glaeser's composition theorem and Glaeser's continuity theorem. Glaeser was a Ph.D. student of Laurent Schwartz.

Claude Michelet was an award winning French author and film writer.