List of Famous people born in France

Joseph Étienne Camille Pleyel was a French virtuoso pianist, publisher, and owner of Pleyel et Cie. He also ran a concert hall, the Salle Pleyel, where Frédéric Chopin played the first and last of his concerts in Paris.

Jacques-Laurent Bost was a French journalist. He worked for the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, and was a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, and of Simone de Beauvoir, who was his lover. He married Olga Kosakiewicz. Pierre Bost, mainly known as a screenwriter today, was Jacques-Laurent's brother.

Adolphe Colrat is a French senior civil servant who served as the French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia from 2008 to 2011. He succeeded Anne Boquet in the post.

Jean Louis was a French-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Award winner for Best Costume Design.

Antoine Durafour was a French politician. He represented the Radical Party in the Chamber of Deputies from 1910 to 1932. From 1925 to 1926 he was Minister of Labour and Social Security provisions. From 1930 to 1932 he was mayor of Saint-Étienne.