List of Famous people born in France

Joseph Achille Le Bel was a French chemist. He is best known for his work in stereochemistry. Le Bel was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1874 he announced his theory outlining the relationship between molecular structure and optical activity. This discovery laid the foundation of the science of stereochemistry, which deals with the spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules. This hypothesis was put forward in the same year by the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and is currently known as Le Bel-van't Hoff rule. Le Bel wrote Cosmologie Rationelle in 1929.

Florian Guillou is a French former racing cyclist. He rode in the 2014 Tour de France, finishing 62nd – his only Grand Tour start.

Alexandre Pichot is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2019, entirely for the Bouygues Télécom team and its later iterations.

Henri Rochereau was a French politician and European Commissioner.

François Joseph Pierre Deniau was a French Roman Catholic bishop.

Henri Brémond was a French literary scholar, sometime Jesuit, and Catholic philosopher, one of the theological modernists.

André Henri Gobert was a tennis player from France. Gobert is a double Olympic tennis champion of 1912. At the Stockholm Games, he won both the men's singles and doubles indoor gold medals.

Bruno Wojtinek is a French former professional racing cyclist. He rode in the 1987 Tour de France.