List of Famous people born in France

Jacques Géry was a French ichthyologist. He was also a scientist and a Doctor of Medicine.

Jacques Faivre, was the French Catholic bishop of Le Mans from 1997 to 2008.

Georg Muffat was a Baroque composer and organist. He is best known for the remarkably articulate and informative performance directions printed along with his collections of string pieces Florilegium Primum and Florilegium Secundum in 1695 and 1698.

Jérémie Galland is a French former professional road cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2007 and 2013.

Jacques Coursil was a composer, jazz trumpeter, scholar, and professor of literature, linguistics, and philosophy.

The Blessed Mary Catherine of St. Augustine, OSA, was a French canoness regular who was instrumental in the development of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in service to the colony of New France. She has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

Johann Graf von Fries descended from a Swiss family of bankers. He was a counsellor, director of the imperial silk factories, industrialist and banker.

Jacques Chailley was a 20th-century French musicologist and composer.