List of Famous people born in France

Emmanuel Ullmo is a French mathematician, specialised in arithmetic geometry. Since 2013 he has served as director of the Institut des Hautes Études scientifiques.

François de Callières, sieur de Rochelay et de Gigny was a member of the Académie française, a diplomat and writer, a special envoy of Louis XIV who was one of three French plenipotentiaries who signed the Peace of Ryswick in 1697; his De la manière de négocier avec les souverains, 1716, based on his experiences in negotiating the Treaty and having its origins in a letter to the Regent, Philippe, duc d'Orléans, to whom the work was dedicated, became a textbook for eighteenth-century diplomacy: Thomas Jefferson had a copy in his library at Monticello. Of this book John Kenneth Galbraith declared "One wonders why anything more needed to be said on the subject."

Jean Guéguinou was a French diplomat, who served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1990–1993), the United Kingdom (1993–1998), and the Vatican City (1993–1998). Guéguinou also served as Consul-General in Jerusalem from 1982 to 1986 and as France's permanent representative to UNESCO from 2000 to 2006.

François de Clermont-Tonnerre was a French aristocrat and cleric. He served as the Count of Noyon, Bishop of Noyon, a pair de France and a member of the Conseil d'État.

Jacques Berthou was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Ain department as a member of the Socialist Party. He has held other elected posts. In 1995 he was elected as mayor of Miribel, being reelected in 2001 and 2008 and he has also been a member of the general council of Ain, representing the canton of Miribel, where he was elected at the first round of the voting, in 2004.

Thierry Burkhard is a French Army general. He served as the Chief of Staff of the French Army from 2019 until July 14, 2021, when he was appointed as the Chief of the Defence Staff.
Burkhard has served in the 2ème REP and held command of 13^e DBLE in Djibouti.

Michel Deguy was a French poet and translator.

Le vicomte Gilles de Robien is a French politician and former government minister.