List of Famous people born in France

Roger Caillois was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games, play as well as the sacred. He was also instrumental in introducing Latin American authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Miguel Ángel Asturias to the French public. After his death, the French Literary award Prix Roger Caillois was named after him in 1991.

Antoine Bailly was a French-born Swiss geographer. He worked as a professor of geography in France, Canada, and Switzerland. He held a doctoral degree from Paris-Sorbonne University, as well as degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Franche-Comté.

Adélaïde-Louise d'Eckmühl de Blocqueville, was a French woman of letters and a poet. The last daughter of Louis Nicolas Davout, she devoted a large part of her life to honouring the memory of the "glorious marshal" of Napoléon.