List of Famous people born in France

Jacques Benoit-Gonnin is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Bishop of Beauvais since 2010. He is a member of the Emmanuel Community.

Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet was a French painter and medallic artist.

Wilhelm Philippe Schimper was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of the Vosges mountain range in Alsace. He was the father of botanist Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), and a cousin to naturalist Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803–1867) and botanist Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper (1804–1878).

Joseph Rozier was bishop of Poitiers from 1975 to 1994. Near the end of his episcopate he published a statement in the Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest outlining incompatibility between National Front membership and acceptance as a Christian catechumen. He died in 1994.

Joël Prévost is a French singer, best known for his participation in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.

Valérie Six is a French politician from the UDI who was the National Assembly deputy for Nord's 7th constituency from 2020 to 2022.

Jean-Jacques Henner was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits.