List of Famous people born in France

Claude Catherine de Clermont-Tonnerre de Vivonne, lady of Dampierre, countess and duchess of Retz, was a French courtier, writer and salon host.

Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky, was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His work is considered as representative of Socialist realism in art in France.

Frank Burty Haviland was a French Cubist painter, a friend and early client of Picasso and Braque, and an early collector of African art.

Gaëtan Mittelheisser is a French badminton player. He started playing badminton at aged 5. In 2012, he won the French National Badminton Championships in the men's doubles event, and in 2013 he joined the France national badminton team. In 2013, he also won the bronze medal at the Mediterranean Games in the men's doubles event.

Marcel Cachin was a French Communist politician and the first editor of the daily newspaper L'Humanite.

John Theophilus Desaguliers FRS was a British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. He had studied at Oxford and later popularized Newtonian theories and their practical applications in public lectures. Desaguliers's most important patron was James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. As a Freemason, Desaguliers was instrumental in the success of the first Grand Lodge in London in the early 1720s and served as its third Grand Master.