List of Famous people born in France

Émile Girardeau was a French engineer, famous for being the first person to patent the original system of frequencies that is used and known today as radar. He was born in 1882 at Luçon, France.

Bernard Ferdinand Lyot was a French astronomer.

Paul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervais was a French palaeontologist and entomologist.

Georges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science.

Émile Coulaudon, known as Colonel Gaspard, was one of the principal leaders of the French Resistance in Auvergne during the Second World War.

Eugénie Cotton was a French scientist, socialist, women's rights advocate and was active in the resistance. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951, Knight of the Legion of Honor, and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961. She died at 85 in Sèvres, near Paris.

Maurice Alexandre Guigue was a football referee from France, who led the 1958 FIFA World Cup Final in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the second Frenchman, after Georges Capdeville, to referee a World Cup final.