List of Famous people born in France

Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.

Pierre Laffitte was a French politician and scientist. He was the founder of Sophia Antipolis and represented Alpes-Maritimes in the Senate of France from 1985 to 2008 as a member of the Radical Party (PR).

Edward George Dannreuther was a German pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a piano manufacturing business. Young Edward, under pressure from his father to enter banking as a career, a prospect he found uncongenial, escaped to Leipzig in 1859.

Jim Sévellec(21 January 1897 – 21 May 1971), born Eugène Sévellec, was a French painter.

Jean Thuillier was a French novelist and physician. He wrote a number of books, and won the Prix Littré and the Prix Méditerranée among others. Thuillier died in August 2017 at the age of 95.

Françoise Nuñez was a French photographer.