List of Famous people born in France

Dagur Kári is an Icelandic film director.

Esther Baron is a retired French swimmer. She had her best achievements in the 200 m backstroke event: gold medals in the European Championships of 2006, long course and short course, silver medal at the 2007 European Short Course Swimming Championships and fourth place at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships. While winning the short course championship in 2006 she set a new European record.

Prosper Menière was a French doctor who first identified that the inner ear could be the source of a condition combining vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus, which is now known as Ménière's disease.

Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne (1650) and Idée de la perfection de la peinture (1662), appeared at a time when French architects were struggling to apply a new sense of discipline and order to the practice of building.

Jean-Henri Roger was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed the 1983 film Cap Canaille, which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Nicole Védrès, born Nicole Henriette Désirée Charlotte Cahen dit Nathan dit Rais, was a French film director and journalist.

Laurent Mangel is a French former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2014 for the Ag2r–La Mondiale, Saur–Sojasun and FDJ.fr teams.

Laurent Guyot is a French former footballer and football manager, currently managing Boulogne in the French Championnat National.

Cédric Hervé is a French former road racing cyclist.