List of Famous people born in France

Prince Charles Louis of Orléans, Duke of Chartres is a leading aristocrat and royal pretender, as the elder son of Prince Jacques, Duke of Orléans and Gersende de Sabran-Pontevès, daughter of Foulques, 7th Duke of Sabran.

Robert Eugène Amilcar Bothereau was a French trade union leader. He was the secretary general of Workers' Force from 1948 to 1963.

Christine Petit is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.

Robert Camelot was a French architect.

Charles Brunier was a French convicted murderer and veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, who claimed in 2005 to have been the inspiration for Papillon. Circumstantial evidence, including his butterfly tattoo and his having been on Devil's Island at the time, supported the claim.

Marie-Louise O'Murphy was one of the lesser mistresses of King Louis XV of France, and possibly the model for the famous painting by François Boucher.