List of Famous people born in France

Jean-Louis Gassée is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to 1990. He also founded Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving Be, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November 2004.

Georges Goyau was a French historian and essayist specializing in religious history.

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology.

Henriette Poincaré was the wife of French statesman Raymond Poincaré. She was born in Passy, France. Her parents were a coachman of Italian origin, Raphael Benucci, and Louise Mossbauer, a young servant. She served for a time as a companion to old ladies of the bourgeoisie.

Giovanni Bernaudeau is a French former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2015, for the Team Europcar team and its previous iterations. He is the son of former professional cyclist Jean-René Bernaudeau.

Léonce Rosenberg was an art historian, art collector, publisher and one of the most influential French art dealers of the 20th century. The son of an antique dealer Alexander Rosenberg and brother of the gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, Léonce, a prominent gallery owner in Paris at the end of World War I, would become one of the world's major dealers of Modern art.

Sophie Morel is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics at École Normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.

Auguste Chabaud was a French painter and sculptor.