List of Famous people born in France

Christophe Borbiconi is a French former professional football player and manager. As a player, he was a centre-back. He scored eight goals in 222 Division 2 games in France.

Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy was a French painter. She was a student of the painter Abel de Pujol (1787-1861), who had studied with Jacques-Louis David. In 1856, she married Abel de Pujol, becoming his second wife. Known for her interior and historical paintings in the Troubadour style, she also taught female students in Pujol's art studio and was considered a committed instructor.

Georg Friedrich Parrot was a German scientist, the first rector of the Imperial University of Dorpat in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.

Gabriel Briard was a landscape and portrait painter of some grace and facility of hand, the master of Demarne, and just one of the influential painting teachers of Mme. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. He visited Italy in 1749, became an Academician in 1768, and died in 1777.

Léon Benett was a French painter and illustrator. He was born in Orange, Vaucluse. He changed his name to "Benett" to differentiate his career in the French administration from his work as a draftsman.

Guillaume Bonnafond is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2018 for the AG2R La Mondiale and Cofidis teams. He had excelled at both basketball and cycling as a youth, but eventually concentrated on the latter, training with Ag2r–La Mondiale's Chambéry Cyclisme Formation, subsequently joining the squad as an amateur and, in 2009 as a professional.

Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne was a French military physician and botanist who specialized in the fields of bryology and mycology. He was born in the commune of Vaudoy in the department of Seine-et-Marne.