List of Famous people born in France

Gilles Saint-Paul is a French economist at the Toulouse 1 University Social Sciences. He also is a scientific advisor to the Economic Studies Directorate at the French Ministry of the Environment. His main interests include the political economy of unemployment and how information technology affects wage inequality.

Hervé Schneid is a French film editor, who has edited most of the films by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He won the 1992 César Award for Best Editing for his work on Delicatessen.

Marc Cholodenko, is a French novelist, translator, poet, screenwriter and dialoguist.

Hippolyte Lecomte was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet; the caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio. His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter.

Baron Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audibert de Férussac (1745–1815) was a French naturalist and geologist.

Jeanne Julia Bartet, a French actress, was born in Paris and trained at the Conservatoire. In 1872 she began a successful career at the Vaudeville, and in 1879 was engaged at the Comédie-Française, of which she became a sociétaire in 1880. For many years she played the chief parts both in tragedy and comedy. She was known for Louis XI (1909) and Rival de son Père (1909). She had a season in London in 1908, when her consummate art was displayed in a number of parts.

Maurice Jules Gaston Corneille Caullery was a French biologist.

Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau was a French painter of the Barbizon school.

Marshal Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans, 1st Comte Exelmans was a distinguished French soldier of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as a political figure of the following period.