List of Famous people born in France
Jan Martel
Jan Martel is the name of:
- Jan Martel (sculptor) (1896–1966), French sculptor
- Jan Martel (bridge) American bridge player
Christophe Hay
Frédéric Thoraval
Frédéric Thoraval is a French-American film editor. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Film Editing for the film Promising Young Woman.
Paul Ivano
Paul Ivano, ASC, was a Serbian–French–American cinematographer whose career stretched from 1920 into the late 1960s. Born Paul Ivano Ivanichevitch, to Serbian parents in Nice, France, he served for two years with the Franco–American Ambulance Corps and the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps, between 1916 and 1918. After the conclusion of World War I, he remained in the Balkans, acting as a photographer and interpreter for the American Red Cross. He arrived in the United States in 1919, and moved to California, the following year. In 1947 he was the cameraman who made the first aerial helicopter shots for an American feature film in Nicholas Ray's film noir They Live by Night.
Maud Baecker
Frédéric Blanc
Frédéric Blanc is a French composer, organist and improvisor. The last student of Marie-Madeleine Duruflé, he is based as titular organist of Notre-Dame d'Auteuil in Paris. He has played concerts and given masterclasses internationally, especially in the United States. He is focused on the French organ tradition and improvisation.
Felix Henri Giacomotti
Félix-Henri Giacomotti was a French painter and muralist of Italian ancestry who specialized in historical and religious works.
François Lemoyne
François Lemoyne or François Le Moine was a French rococo painter. He was a winner of the Prix de Rome, professor of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, and Premier peintre du Roi to Louis XV. He was tutor to Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher.
Jacques Jullien
Jacques André Marie Jullien was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, France.
David Bergeaud
David Bergeaud also known as "KOR", is a film, television, and video game composer, as well as a record producer and multi-instrumentalist. Bergeaud has composed scores for such noteworthy projects as the PlayStation franchise Ratchet & Clank series and the award-winning television series Strong Medicine and The Outer Limits, and the controversial feature-length documentary film, Kurt & Courtney.