List of Famous people born in France

Henri Mellet

First Name Henri

Last Name Mellet

Born on May 28, 1852

Died on July 23, 1926 (aged 74)

Born in France, Brittany

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Georg Picht

First Name Georg

Last Name Picht

Born on July 9, 1913

Died on August 7, 1982 (aged 69)

Born in France, Grand Est

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Marguerite Hoppenot

Marguerite de Marchena

First Name Marguerite

Last Name Hoppenot

Born on July 3, 1901

Died on March 18, 2011 (aged 109)

Born in France, Île-de-France, Paris

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Jean-Noël Robert

First Name Jean-Noël

Born on December 30, 1949 (age 76)

Born in France, Île-de-France

Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert is a French orientalist, specialist of the history of Buddhism in Japan and of its Chinese predecessors. His work particularly focus on Tendai and the philology of Sino-Japanese Buddhist texts. He is the author of the French translation of the Lotus Sūtra, seminal text of Mahayana 大乘, from the ancient Chinese text.

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Gilles Laporte

First Name Gilles

Last Name Laporte

Born on August 13, 1945 (age 81)

Born in France, Grand Est

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Michel Mohrt

First Name Michel

Last Name Mohrt

Born on April 28, 1914

Died on August 17, 2011 (aged 97)

Born in France, Brittany

Michel Mohrt was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature.

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Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

First Name Jean-Pierre

Last Name Bourguignon

Born on July 21, 1947 (age 79)

Born in France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician, working in the field of differential geometry.

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Georges Beuville

Georges Pierre Beuville

First Name Georges

Last Name Beuville

Born on February 5, 1902

Died on April 23, 1982 (aged 80)

Born in France, Normandy

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Jean Emile Gombert

First Name Jean

Last Name Gombert

Born on November 2, 1950 (age 75)

Born in France, Normandy

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Jean Abélanet

First Name Jean

Last Name Abélanet

Born on August 20, 1925

Died on March 21, 2019 (aged 93)

Born in France, Occitania

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