List of Famous people born in France

Achille-Émile Othon Friesz, who later called himself Othon Friesz, a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement.

Jean-François Le Grand is a French politician and a former member of the Senate of France. He represented the Manche department as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.

Gilbert Azibert is a former French magistrate who was on the Court of Cassation.

Joseph Chinard was a French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style that was infused with naturalism and sentiment.

Jean-Marc Roberts was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter.

Maurice Jules Abel Lefranc was a historian of French literature, expert on Rabelais, and the principal advocate of the Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship.

Michel Jacques Louis Baranger was a Franco-American theoretical physicist.

Jean Berthoin was a French politician. As Minister of National Education under Charles de Gaulle, he instituted a policy of compulsory education for all children, both French and foreign citizens, until the age of sixteen, building on the earlier reforms of 1936. Implemented in 1959, this was known as the Berthoin Ordinance. He also suggested that the baccalauréat be abolished, prompting a significant backlash in the Parisian press.