List of Famous people born in France

Catherine David is a French art historian, curator and museum director. David was the first woman and the first non-German speaker to curate documenta X in Kassel, Germany. David is currently deputy director of the National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou. She was born and lives in Paris.

Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin was a French actor. Also called Coquelin Cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864.

Olivier Ihl is a French professor of political science, director of the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble, France and member of the laboratory PACTE.

Chevalier Pierre Bernard is a French politician, mayor of Montfermeil from March 1983 to June 2002 and counsellor in the canton de Montfermeil from 1992 to 1998. He replaced Eric Raoult, who had been nominated as minister, as a deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis from 1995 to 1997.

Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges.