List of Famous people born in France

Jacques Ertaud was a French film director and screenwriter. Along with Marcel Ichac, he co-directed the film Stars at Noon, which entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.

Jacques Salomon Hadamard ForMemRS was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

Jacques Berthier was a French actor. He also produced and directed two films.

Jeanne Primitive Mette, better known under her married name, Jane Catulle-Mendès, and as a French poet who also wrote plays and other prose works, and contributed to Pierre Lafitte's Femina.

Christophe Bassons is a French former professional road racing cyclist. Bassons' career ended when he spoke out about doping in the Tour de France.

Henri Estienne, also known as Henricus Stephanus, was a French printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of Robert Estienne. He was instructed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by his father and would eventually take over the Estienne printing firm which his father owned in 1559 when his father died. His most well-known work was the Thesaurus graecae linguae, which was printed in five volumes. The basis of Greek lexicology, no thesaurus would rival that of Estienne's for three hundred years.