List of Famous people born in France

Jean-Yves Marin is an archeologist, mediavelist and chief curator of French heritage. He is born in Caen in 1955.

Charles Albert Waltner, aka C. A. Waltner, was a French artist and etcher, born March 23 or 24, 1846 in Paris and died June 15, 1925, in the same city. His father, Charles Jules Waltner, was also a French artist and etcher who engraved religious subjects for specialized publishers from 1848. Waltner studied painting under the guidance of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat. Later he was taught by Henriquel-Dupont in the art of copper cutting and etching.

Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison, is a French political scientist and author whose work chiefly centres on colonialism. He is best known for his book Coloniser, Exterminer - Sur la guerre et l'Etat colonial.

Henri Massis was a conservative French essayist, literary critic and literary historian.

Jean-Paul Bacquet is a member of the National Assembly of France and represents the Puy-de-Dôme department. He is a member of the Socialist Party and works in association with the SRC parliamentary group.

Jean-François Le Gall is a French mathematician working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Pierre and Marie Curie University under the supervision of Marc Yor. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to French academy of sciences, December 2013.

André Bellessort was a French writer.