List of Famous people born in France

Prince Patrick Ali Pahlavi is a member of the deposed Pahlavi dynasty of Iran and was heir presumptive from 1954 to 1960. According to the former constitution of Iran Patrick was the first in the line of succession to the throne. In 1960, however, with the birth of Reza Pahlavi, the latter became the heir apparent. If the Iranian monarchy were to be restored he would become the heir presumptive to the throne.

François-Xavier Ortoli was a French politician who served as the 5th President of the European Commission from 1973 to 1977. He served as Minister of the Economy of France from 1968 to 1969.

André Caquot was a French orientalist, specialized in semitic history and civilisations and professor of Hebrew and Aramaic language at the Collège de France. In 1986, André Caquot was elected president of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His work particularly focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ugaritic and phoenician sculptures as well as on ancient Ethiopia.

Massimo Federici is an Italian politician. He is member of the Democratic Party. He served as mayor of La Spezia from 2007 to 2017 and as President of the Province of La Spezia from 2014 to 2017.

Erich Leo Lehmann was an American statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population.