List of Famous people born in France

Colette Deréal was a French actress and singer.

Gabriel Bertrand was a French pharmacologist, biochemist and bacteriologist.

Pierre-Joseph Macquer was an influential French chemist.

Albert Sorel was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times.

Stéphane Israël is a senior French civil servant. He was a magistrate at the Court of Audit, chief of staff at the French Minister of Economics, Arnaud Montebourg; worked in the aeronautics industry at Astrium, a subsidiary of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company. He was appointed CEO of Arianespace in 2013.

René Courtin (1900–1964) was a French economist.

Johannes Stroux was a German classicist, scholar of Roman law and organizer of scientific projects and organizations. In 1945 he became rector of the Berlin University and president of the Berlin Academy of Science.