List of Famous people born in France

Valentin Conrart was a French author, and as a founder of the Académie française, the first occupant of seat 2.

Ferdinand Brunetière was a French writer and critic.

Antoine Pesne was a French-born court painter of Prussia. Starting in the manner of baroque, he became one of the fathers of rococo in painting. His work represents a link between the French school and the Frederican rococo style.

Laurent Bezault is a French former racing cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He also rode in the 1989 Tour de France.

Jean-Luc Masdupuy is a former French racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1996 Tour de France.

Jean-Paul Jaeger is the emeritus Bishop of Arras, France.

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line. The baud unit was named after him.

Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille was a French physicist and physiologist.