List of Famous people born in France

François Legrand is a French professional rock climber, specialising in lead climbing. He is known for winning five Lead Climbing World Cups, and three consecutive Lead Climbing World Championships. As of 2018, no other climber was ever able to match this achievement. Second ranking for number of awarded Lead Climbing World Cups is Alexandre Chabot, who won three consecutive times.

François (Robert) Ewald is a French historian and philosopher. An assistant to Michel Foucault in the 1970s, he has overseen the publication of much of Foucault's literary estate. Ewald's own work has applied Foucault's notion of governmentality to a history of the welfare state.

Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works include Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Studies on Marx and Hegel.

Henri Jules Louis Jeanson was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics".

Jules Jean Baptiste Anglès was a French politician who was Minister of Police for a short period in 1814.

Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who became archbishop of Paris in May 2022. He has been a bishop since 2000 and was archbishop of Lille from 2008 to 2022. He was vice president of the Bishops' Conference of France from 2007 to 2013.

Eugene Dabit was a French socialist writer.