List of Famous people born in France

Jean-François Roger, sometimes called François Roger, was a French politician, journalist, poet and dramatic author. During the Revolution, at 16 years of age, he and his family were imprisoned for seventeen months for singing royalist songs. He was a civil servant, and he entered l' University where he published works of school literature. He was later appointed Professor during the Empire and Restoration. He was elected member of the French Academy, as a replacement for Suard, on 8 August 1817 and received by the duke of Lévis on 30 November next. His election was widely criticized. He was a member of the Commission of the Dictionary where he fought the Lacretelle proposal, accepted Villemain and the count of Holy-Aulaire and voted against Victor Hugo. He was one of the companions of the “Lunch of the Fork”. Of his comic and lyric works, sometimes written in collaboration with Etienne de Jouy, his greatest success is a comedy in verse, in three acts: L'Avocat, played for the first time at the Comédie-Française.

Didier-Léon Marchard was a French Roman Catholic bishop.

Didier Diderot was a French craftsman and the father of the encyclopedist, author, philosopher of enlightenment Denis Diderot.

Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt was a French archaeologist and historian.

Rémi Delatte is a French politician of the Republicans who currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Côte-d'Or department.

Étienne Dennery was a French academic, public servant and diplomat. Dennery studied at the École normale supérieure from 1923 to 1926 and became agrégé in history and geography. He received an Albert Kahn grant to travel abroad and spent time in China, India and Japan studying demographics and gathering material for a book published in French in 1930 and translated in English in 1931 under the title Asia's teeming millions: and its problems for the West. He later worked as an economic expert for the Lytton Commission on Manchuria. He then taught at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques, the Institute of Higher International Studies and at HEC Paris as well as giving invited lectures throughout the Northwestern United States. In 1935, Dennery and Louis Joxe co-founded the Centre d'études de politique étrangère which Joxe described as inspired by the British Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Léon Level was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Marie-Guillaume Charles Le Roux (1814–1895) was a landscape painter of the Barbizon school. He was born and died in Nantes, and is noted for his paintings of the Loire and its surroundings.