List of Famous people born in France

Nicolas de Largillière was a French portrait painter, born in Paris.

Robert Le Lorrain (1666–1743) was a French baroque sculptor who was born in Paris. He was born into a family of bureaucrats, the son of Claude Le Lorrain, a business agent of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's Minister of Finance. Le Lorrain was a student of the French sculptor, painter, and architect, Pierre Paul Puget (1620-1694). At age eighteen, Le Lorrain entered François Girardon's studio; aside from collaborating with him, he was commissioned to instruct Girardon's children in drawing and to supervise his other pupils. Le Lorrain won the Prix de Rome in 1689, On his return to Paris he first joined the Académie de Saint-Luc, and then was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1701; he became Rector of the Académie in 1737. His major non-royal clients were members of the house of Rohan. His students included Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704-1778) and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785). Robert Le Lorrain died in Paris in 1743.

François Jacolin, M.D.P., is a French Roman Catholic Prelate who currently serves as the Bishop of Diocese of Luçon.

Paul Dominique Philippoteaux was a French artist. He is best known for a cyclorama illustrating the Battle of Gettysburg.

Gauscelin de Jean was a French cardinal.

Henri Léon Lebesgue was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Intégrale, longueur, aire at the University of Nancy during 1902.

Jean-Luc Delpech is a French former racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2013, all with the Bretagne–Séché Environnement team. He also competed for amateur squads US Montauban 82, GS Jean Floc'h Moreac 56, Entente Sud Gascogne, and EC Trélissac Coulounieix–Chamiers.