List of Famous people born in France

Bernard Oulion, known professionally as Bernard Lavilliers, is a French singer-songwriter and actor.

Édith Piaf was a French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.

Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. Nicknamed El Pipita or Pipa, Higuaín is a prolific striker, known for his eye for goal, strong physique, and offensive movements. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation.

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant is a French actor. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best Actor Award at the César Awards 2013. He starred in classic films such as Z, A Man and a Woman, The Great Silence, The Conformist, Three Colours: Red, and Amour.

Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.

Omar Sy is a French actor and comedian. Best known in his homeland for his sketches with Fred Testot on the Service après-vente des émissions television show on Canal+ (2005–2012), he gained fame abroad with the 2011 comedy-drama film The Intouchables, which earned him the César Award for Best Actor. Sy became the first Black recipient of the award. He further appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Jurassic World (2015), Two Is a Family (2016), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) and the Netflix-produced show Lupin (2021).

Élodie Frégé is a French singer and actress. She was the winner of the third season of Star Academy France. She released her self-titled début album after winning the show.

Pierre Jean Marie Laval was a French politician. During the time of the Third Republic, he served as Prime Minister of France from 27 January 1931 to 20 February 1932, and a second time from 7 June 1935 to 24 January 1936.

Ibrahima Konaté is a French professional footballer who plays for the German club RB Leipzig as a centre-back.

Guillaume Canet is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper.