List of Famous people born in France

Patrick Ricard was a French entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of the liquor and wine group Pernod Ricard.

Jean Henri Zuber was a French landscape painter. He was born in Rixheim, in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace. He served in the French navy from 1863 to 1868, and took part in the French campaign against Korea in 1866.

Laurent Cantet is a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter. His film Entre les murs won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer is an Austrian novelist and poet, one of the leading women prose writers in German. Her mainly fictional works present the horrors of Fascism, especially the repression of minorities.

Jean-Michel Moreau, also called Moreau le Jeune, was a French draughtsman, illustrator and engraver.

David Christie was a French singer. Born Jacques Pepino in Tarare, he also used the pseudonyms James Bolden and Napoleon Jones. He is best known for the hits "Saddle Up" (1982) and "I Love to Love ", which are included on various 1980s compilation albums.