List of Famous people born in France

Édouard Courtial is a French politician of The Republicans who currently serves as a member of the French Senate, representing the Oise department.

Michel Chion is a French film theorist and composer of experimental music.

Ludovic Turpin is a French professional road racing cyclist, who most recently competed for amateur team Vélo Club Grand Case.

Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie was a French classical scholar.

Antoine-Félix Boisselier, known as Boisselier le Jeune to distinguish him from his brother Félix Boisselier, was a French painter.

Édouard Dujardin was a French writer, one of the early users of the stream of consciousness literary technique, exemplified by his 1888 novel Les Lauriers sont coupés.

Robert Hersant was a French newspaper magnate. He was a leader in the pro-Nazi youth movement during the Vichy wartime years, but after prison time built a major newspaper empire and engaged in conservative politics. At the time of his death he operated 40 publications and employed 8,000 people, but failed in his leap into television.

Maurice Jaubert was a French composer. A prolific composer, he scored some of the most important films of the early sound era in France, including Jean Vigo’s Zero for Conduct and L’Atalante, and René Clair’s Quatorze Juillet and Le Dernier Milliardaire. Serving in both world wars, he died in action during World War II at the age of 40.

Armand Jean François Séguin or Segouin was a French chemist and physiologist who discovered a faster and cheaper process for tanning leather. As a result, he became immensely rich through the supply of leather to Napoleon's armies. He was born on March 21, 1767 in Paris and died on January 23, 1835.