List of Famous people born in France
Jean-Benoît Bost
Jean-Benoît Bost is a French mathematician.
Luq Hamet
François Andrieux
François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux was a French man of letters and playwright.
Jean-Baptiste Jeanin
Jean-Baptiste Jeanin was a French military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and a brigadier general during the Peninsular War. During the Hundred Days he commanded the 20th Infantry Division at Ligny and Waterloo.
François Zocchetto
François Zocchetto is French lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Senate of France from 2001 until 2017, representing the Mayenne department. He is a member of the Centrist Alliance and caucuses with the Centrist Union. In 2019, he joined independent law firm De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in Paris as a partner.
Jacques Mailhot
Jean-Baptiste Johannot
Jean-Claude Abrioux
Patrick Simon
Patrick Simon, AO, was a French politician, dentist, Mayor of Villers-Bretonneux from 2008 until 2020, and strong proponent of Australia–France relations. Simon served as Mayor of Villers-Bretonneux for two terms from 2008 until his death in 2020 from COVID-19 during the pandemic in France. In April 1918, during World War I, Villers-Bretonneux was liberated from German occupation by the First Australian Imperial Force at the cost of an estimated 1,300 Australian lives. Following the war, donations from the state of Victoria and Victorians helped to rebuild the village. Simon became a major supporter of relations between France, Villers-Bretonneux, and Australia during his twelve-year tenure as mayor. Mayor Simon oversaw the renovations of the Franco-Australian First World War Museum in Villers-Bretonneux, helped to establish the Sir John Monash Centre in France in 2018, and presided over Villers-Bretonneux's annual Anzac Day commemoration for twelve years.
François Bonvin
François Bonvin was a French realist painter.