List of Famous people born in France

René Guissart was a French film director and cinematographer. During the 1920s and 1930s he worked as cinematographer on many British films many of them for British International Pictures. He also worked on MGM's 1925 epic Ben-Hur. From 1931 Guissart began directing and had made twenty eight films by 1939.

Edmond-Marie-Henri Abelé was a Catholic bishop.

Thomas Vaubourzeix is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Cambodia Cycling Academy. He rode in the men's team time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.

Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron was a French poet and dramatist best known for his play Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie.

Béatrice Poulot, who performs as simply Béatrice, is a French singer. She was born in Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean, and lives in Paris.

Germain Boffrand was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself. In his exteriors he held to a monumental Late Baroque classicism with some innovations in spatial planning that were exceptional in France His major commissions, culminating in his interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise, were memorialised in his treatise Livre d'architecture, published in 1745, which served to disseminate the French "Louis XV" style throughout Europe.