List of Famous people born in France

Charlélie Couture is a French & American musician and multi-disciplinary artist, who has recorded over 25 albums and 17 film soundtracks, and has held a number of exhibitions of paintings and photographs. He has also worked as a poster designer, and has published about 15 books of reflections, drawings and photographs.

Emmanuelle Cosse is a French activist with LGBT and feminist groups, and a politician with the green party Europe Ecology – The Greens, as well as a journalist and magazine editor.

Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise was a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver who raced for the Matra and BRM teams. He competed in 88 Grands Prix achieving a single victory, at the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, and a total of eight podium finishes.

Thibaut Pinot is a French professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ. Once considered one of the most promising talents in French cycling, he finished third overall in the 2014 Tour de France and first in the young rider classification. He has won stages in all three Grand Tours, with 3 in the Tour de France, 1 in the Giro d'Italia and 2 in the Vuelta a España. Pinot has also won the Giro di Lombardia in 2018 and finished 3rd in the race in 2015.

Alexis Kohler, full name Arnaud Alexis Michel Kohler, is a French special adviser, senior official, and politician. Énarque, former director of cabinet of Pierre Moscovici then of Emmanuel Macron at the Ministry of Finance, he was appointed general secretary of the Élysée Palace on 14 May 2017.

Swann Arlaud is a French actor. He has appeared in films such as Romantics Anonymous (2010), Les Anarchistes (2015), The Wakhan Front (2015) and Baden Baden (2016).

Catherine Langeais, born Marie-Louise Terrasse,, was a French television presenter and actress.

Jean-François Revel was a French journalist, philosopher, and a member of the Académie française from June 1998 onwards. A socialist in his youth, Revel later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics.

Yohann Pelé is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Marseille.

Anne Brochet is a French actress.