List of Famous people born in France
Catherine Goldstein
Catherine Goldstein is a French number theorist and historian of mathematics who works as a director of research at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu (IMJ). She was president of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991.
Guy Nègre
Luc de Goustine
Marguerite Lamour
Marguerite Lamour is the mayor of Ploudalmézeau. She was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2012. She represented the Finistère department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Lowell P. Weicker
Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980. He was known as a very liberal Republican in Congress, causing conservatives to abandon him in the 1988 Senate election where he was replaced by a Conservative Democrat. Sometime after his defeat, Weicker was sent a letter by President Barack Obama thanking him for his work on the Americans with Disabilities Act in Congress. Though a member of the Republican Party during his time in Congress, he later left the Republican Party and became one of the few third party candidates to be elected to a state governorship in the United States in recent years, doing so on the ticket of A Connecticut Party.
Louise de France
Louise of France, was the eldest child of King Francis I of France and his first wife, Claude of France. She died in infancy, but was betrothed to Charles I of Spain for much of her life.
Charles-Joseph Natoire
Charles-Joseph Natoire was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Boucher, he played a prominent role in the artistic life of France.
Jean-Claude Chevalier
Jean-Christophe Menu
Jean-Christophe Menu is a French underground cartoonist, graphic designer, comics scholar and publisher, son of the Egyptologist Bernadette Menu. He is best known for being one of the founders of L'Association, an influential comic book and art book publishing company from France often regarded as one of the key figures in the independent comic movement around the world.
Jacqueline Marval
Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet (1866–1932), a French painter, lithographer, and sculptor.