List of Famous people born in France

Jules Gabriel Janin was a French writer and critic.

Guy Marie Alexandre Thomazeau was the Archbishop of Montpellier from 2002 to 2011. He was earlier Bishop of Beauvais, Bishop of Noyon, Bishop of Senlis, and auxiliary bishop of Meaux. Coming from a prominent business family, he served as 'vicaire' at Notre-Dame de Passy and subsequently as 'curé' of St. Pierre de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. He resigned his post of archbishop on 3 June 2011.

Sophie Briard-Auconie is a French politician who has been serving as Member of the National Assembly since 2017, representing Indre-et-Loire's 3rd constituency as a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents. From 2009 until 2014, she served as a Member of the European Parliament, representing the Massif Central-Centre constituency.

Cyril Gautier is a French road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam B&B Hotels p/b KTM. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.

Daniel Chalonge was a French astronomer and astrophysicist. He was born in Grenoble and studied in Paris under Charles Fabry. Chalonge worked as an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, the Observatoire d'Haute Provence and the Swiss Jungfraujoch Scientific Station. One of the founders of the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, his studies included the stellar spectrum of hydrogen, stellar photometry and classification, and measurement of the ozone layer. During the Nazi occupation of France, Chalogne assumed the position of director of the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris after the previous director, Henri Mineur, was arrested by the Gestapo. Chalonge developed a microphotometer, which was subsequently named after him. Between 1936 and 1982 he authored over 90 scientific papers.

Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator, noted for illustrating the book, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

André Marie was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister during the Fourth Republic in 1948.

Louis Legendre was a French politician of the Revolution period.