List of Famous people born in France

Marie Georges Humbert was a French mathematician who worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces. His son was the mathematician Pierre Humbert. He won the Poncelet Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1891.

Paul Édouard Passy was a French linguist, founder of the International Phonetic Association in 1886. He took part in the elaboration of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Pierre Jacques Joatton was a French Roman Catholic bishop.

Germaine Guex was a Swiss psychologist. She was particularly known for her work on abandonment syndrome in psychoanalysis.

François Dumont was a French painter of portrait miniatures.

Jean Kuntzmann was a French mathematician, known for his works in applied mathematics and computer science, pushing and developing both fields at a very early time.