List of Famous people born in France

Anne Gastinel is a French cellist and professor. She was born on October 14, 1971, in the town of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune. Tassin-la-Demi-Lune is in the south east of France close to Lyon. The population was less than 25,000 people when she was born there. She has three sisters and one brother. Both of her parents are musicians and passed their passion down to their children. Her father composes pieces and her mother plays the piano.

Louis Métezeau was a French architect.

Axel Auriant is a French actor and drummer. He is known for his role as Lucas Lallement in the French-Belgian TV drama series Skam France.

Benoît Potier is a French businessman who has been serving as CEO of the French multinational industrial gas company Air Liquide since 2006.

Alain Kirili is a sculptor. He is recognized for his post-minimalist abstract sculptures in forged iron and his large-scale public sculptures. His work has subsequently been the subject of numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in America and Europe, and has received considerable critical interest from art historians, such as Thierry Dufrêne, Robert C. Morgan, Robert Rosenblum, and Kirk Varnedoe. Alain Kirili lives and works in Paris and New York.