List of Famous people born in France

Marguerite Lebrun

Jeanne Emilie Marguerite Nivoit
First Name Marguerite
Last Name Lebrun
Born on October 12, 1878
Died on October 25, 1947 (aged 69)
Born in France, Grand Est

Marguerite Lebrun was the wife of Albert Lebrun, who was President of France from 1932 to 1940. She was a right wing activist and the founder of École des parents in 1929, an education movement in France.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Ibrahim Koma

First Name Ibrahim
Last Name Koma
Born on November 5, 1987 (age 39)

Ibrahim Koma is a French actor. He began his career as a child actor in the film We Need a Holiday (2002) and the soap opera Sous le soleil (2002–2008). He has since starred in the films Asphalt Playground (2012), Wùlu (2016), and As Far as I Can Walk (2021). He played Passepartout in the 2021 English-language adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Jules Verreaux

First Name Jules
Last Name Verreaux
Born on August 24, 1807
Died on September 7, 1873 (aged 66)

Jules Pierre Verreaux was a French botanist and ornithologist and a professional collector of and trader in natural history specimens. He was the brother of Édouard Verreaux and nephew of Pierre Antoine Delalande.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Guillaume Briçonnet

First Name Guillaume
Last Name Briçonnet
Born on January 1, 1445
Died on December 14, 1514 (aged 69)

Guillaume Briçonnet (1445–1514) was a French Cardinal and statesman.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Catherine Mégret

First Name Catherine
Last Name Mégret
Born on March 16, 1958 (age 68)
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Eugène Freyssinet

Marie Eugène Léon Freyssinet
First Name Eugène
Born on July 13, 1879
Died on June 8, 1962 (aged 82)

Eugène Freyssinet was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Hakim Jemili

First Name Hakim
Last Name Jemili
Born on June 25, 1989 (age 37)
Born in France, Grand Est
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Érard de La Marck

First Name Érard
Born on May 31, 1472
Died on February 27, 1538 (aged 65)
Born in France, Grand Est

Érard de la Marck was prince-bishop of Liège from 1506 till 1538. He was born in Sedan, Ardennes, the third son of Robert I de la Marck, lord of Sedan and Bouillon.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

First Name Augustin-Louis
Born on August 21, 1789
Died on May 23, 1857 (aged 67)

Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics, including mathematical analysis and continuum mechanics. He was one of the first to state and rigorously prove theorems of calculus, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors. He almost singlehandedly founded complex analysis and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Gérard Nahon

Gérard Maurice Georges Nahon
First Name Gérard
Last Name Nahon
Born on January 19, 1931
Died on February 19, 2018 (aged 87)
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.056529998779297s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.041116952896118s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.041057109832764s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.030513048171997s
t_/blocks/person-card: 10x 0.026779890060425s
router_page: 1x 0.014880180358887s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.014363050460815s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0072319507598877s
qids: 2x 0.0059161186218262s
headline: 2x 0.0025699138641357s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00036811828613281s
head-facts: 1x 0.00032615661621094s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00032305717468262s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.9073486328125E-5s
related: 1x 5.0067901611328E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-11-08 07:15:11)  -----