List of Famous people born in France

Bérengère Krief is a French actress and comedian.

Jacques Balutin is a French actor.

Jérôme Commandeur is a French actor and director.

Henri Louis Michel was a French football player and coach. He played as a midfielder for Nantes and the France national team, and later went on to coach various clubs and national teams all over the world. He coached France at the 1986 World Cup, where they reached the semi-final, eventually managing a third–place finish; he also helped the Olympic squad win a gold medal in the 1984 edition of the tournament.

Simone Segouin, also known by her nom de guerre Nicole Minet, is a former French Resistance fighter who served in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans group. Among her first acts of resistance was stealing a bicycle from a German female military messenger, which she then used to help carry messages. She went on to take part in large-scale or otherwise perilous missions, such as capturing German troops, derailing trains, and acts of sabotage.

Jocelyne Béroard is a Martinican singer and songwriter. She is one of the lead singers of the Zouk band Kassav'. As a solo artist, she helped create zouk, a music genre started by Kassav'. The main members are from Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Claude Buffet was a French criminal who was executed along with his accomplice, Roger Bontems, on 28 November 1972 by guillotine at La Santé Prison, aged 39 years. Both men had been convicted of the murders of Guy Girardot and Nicole Comte in 1971, whom they had taken hostage while Buffet was already serving a life sentence in Clairvaux Prison. Robert Badinter was their defence lawyer.

Stéphane Diagana is a retired, French track and field sprinter and hurdler. His specialities were the 400 metres hurdles and the 4 x 400 metres relay.

Maurice Risch is a French film and theatre actor.

Michèle Rubirola is a French politician who was mayor of Marseille from July to December 2020. Physician by occupation, she succeeded Jean-Claude Gaudin, who chose not to run for reelection to a fifth term in office, and endorsed her long term collaborator Martine Vassal, who lost the election in June 2020. Rubirola is the first female mayor of Marseille. Her grandparents came from Spain (Catalonia) and Naples.