List of Famous people born in France

Maxime Bouet is a French road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Arkéa–Samsic.

Benoît-Marie Langénieux was a French Archbishop of Reims and Cardinal.

Étienne Marie Victor Lamy was a French author. He was educated at the College Stanislas and became a doctor of law in 1870. From 1871 to 1881 he was a deputy from his native department, Jura, and his earlier writings were political and historical. In the House of Deputies he was a member of the Left, but he broke with his party and became a clerical reactionary, writing for the Gaulois and the Correspondant. In 1905 he became a member of the Académie française, and in 1913 he succeeded Thureau-Dangin as its perpetual secretary. Among Lamy's works are:

• Le tiers parti (1868)
• L'Armée et la democratie (1889)
• La France du Levant (1898)
• Etudes sur le second empire (1895)
• La femme de demain (1899)
• an edition of the memoirs of Aimée de Coigny (1900)
• Témoins de jours passés
• Au service des idées et des lettres (1909)
• Quelques œuvres et quelques œuvriers

Charles-Guillaume Étienne was a 19th-century French playwright.

Marie Émilie Thérèse de Joly, "Mademoiselle de Choin" was a French lady-in-waiting, the lover and later the morganatic spouse of Louis, Dauphin of France. As a morganatic spouse, she was not styled Dauphine of France.

Georges Périnal was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his works with Jean Grémillon, René Clair, Jean Cocteau, Michael Powell, Charlie Chaplin, Otto Preminger.

Henri Valois or in classical circles, Henricus Valesius, was a philologist and a student of classical and ecclesiastical historians. He is the elder brother to Adrien Valois (1607–1692), who described his life in a biography, which is the basis for all modern biographies of Henri Valois.

Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, a priest of Port-Royal, was a theologian and French humanist. He is best known for his translation of the Bible, the most widespread French Bible in the 18th century, also known as the Bible de Port-Royal.