List of Famous people born in France

Louis-Jean Guyot was a cardinal of the Catholic Church, and archbishop of Toulouse in 1966–1978.

Victor Charles Paul Dourlen was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is primarily known as a theorist on account of his treatises on harmony, based on the methods of Charles Simon Catel, which were widely used as reference works, especially his Traité d'harmonie, the Traité d'accompagnement pratique, and his Méthode élémentaire pour le pianoforte.

Édouard Riou was a French illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, as well as several other well-known works.

Louis Galloche was a French painter. A student of Louis de Boullogne, his own students included François Lemoyne, Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher.

Francis Beverley Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who was the US Attorney General during World War II. He also served as the primary American judge during the postwar Nuremberg Trials as well as a United States Circuit Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Louis Jean Desprez was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.

Christian Ferras was a French violinist.

Auguste Herbin was a French painter of modern art. He is best known for his Cubist and abstract paintings consisting of colorful geometric figures. He co-founded the groups Abstraction-Création and Salon des Réalités Nouvelles which promoted non-figurative abstract art.