List of Famous people born in France

Loik Le Floch-Prigent is a French engineer and manager. He was CEO of Elf Aquitaine between July 1989 and 1993, then president of SNCF from December 1995 to July 1996, when he was indicted in connection with the Elf affair . He is the nephew of the poet Maodez Glanndour.

Joy Esther is a French–Spanish actress and singer.

Valérien Ismaël is a French football coach and former professional player. Currently he manages EFL Championship side Barnsley. Ismaël played a couple of years for Racing Strasbourg, then for Crystal Palace, RC Lens, Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich, and Hannover 96. Later he was, amongst others, coach of VfL Wolfsburg and LASK. He won the Coupe de la Ligue twice, the Coupe de France, the German Bundesliga twice, as well as twice the DFB-Pokal.

Mallaury Nataf is a French singer and actress.

Michel Beaune (1933–1990) was a French actor.

Thibault Lassalle is a French professional rugby union player. He currently plays at lock for Oyonnax in the ProD2.

Thérèse Liotard is a French actress best known for her role in the film My Father's Glory . She is known on British television for her appearance in the BBC series Bergerac.

Maëlle Pistoia, better known as simply Maëlle, is a French singer. She is the winner of the seventh season of the French version of the talent show The Voice. In April 2019, she released her first single, titled "Toutes les machines ont un cœur".

Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

Stanislas Dehaene is a French author and cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. As of 2017, he is a professor at the Collège de France and, since 1989, the director of INSERM Unit 562, "Cognitive Neuroimaging".