List of Famous people born in France

Israel Silvestre, called the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was a prolific French draftsman, etcher and print dealer who specialized in topographical views and perspectives of famous buildings.

Nicole Hassler was a French figure skater. She was the 1963 World bronze medalist, the 1963 European silver medalist and the 1964-1966 European bronze medalist. She represented France at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where she placed 11th and at the 1964 Winter Olympics, where she placed 4th.

Rémi Rossi is a Tahitian badminton player. He started playing badminton at the age of ten, coached by his father Patrick. In 2013, he went to France, studies engineering at Lyon University. His brother Léo Rossi also plays badminton for France which was the medalists at the European U17 Championships. In 2016, Rémi Rossi won silver medals at the Oceania Badminton Championships in men's singles event and men's doubles event partnered with Léo Cucuel. In the men's singles event he beat the No.1 and No.3 seeds Pit Seng Low and Anthony Joe before losing to Ashwant Gobinathan of Australia in the final round with the score 21–17, 21–16. In the men's doubles, he was partnered with Léo Cucuel, and the dou also defeated by the Australian pair Chau and Serasinghe in the straight set. Rossi also play for Badminton Club Oullins (Baco) in France. In 2019, he swept all three individual gold medals at the 2019 Samoa Pacific Games.

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, was a French salonist and author. She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a prominent mathematician, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church a few days after his birth.

Élie Fruchart was a French football player who played with US Auchel. He was born in Calonne-Ricouart. He has also managed US Auchel, RC Lens, Stade de Reims, USL Dunkerque and Angers SCO.

Lucile Randon, also known as Sister André, is a French supercentenarian, who at the age of 118 years, 74 days, is the world's oldest verified living person. In addition to her longevity, she is also the oldest known survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic, having tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and recovering days before her 117th birthday. Randon resides in a nursing home in Toulon, France. She is a Roman Catholic nun, having converted to Catholicism as a young adult, working as a governess, teacher and missionary before retiring at the age of 75. She became the oldest verified person in the world on 19 April 2022, following the death of Japan’s Kane Tanaka.