List of Famous people born in France

Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including Richelieu. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris," and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. He was also "without doubt one of the outstanding seventeenth-century draughtsmen, equal to Annibale Carracci and Lanfranco."

Nadir Dendoun is a French-Algerian writer and journalist born on 7 October 1972 in Saint-Denis, France. He is the author of "A loser on the roof of the world", 2010, the story of which was adapted to the cinema in a film entitled The Climb, and the starring role was played by Ahmed Sylla.

Denis Dercourt is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1997. His film La Tourneuse de pages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later, his film Demain dès l'aube competed in the same section at the 2009 festival.

Samuel "Sam" Hocevar is a French software and video game developer. He was the project leader of the Debian operating system from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, and one of the founding members of Goatse Security.

Nicolas About is a French politician from the centrist MoDem. He was a member of the French Senate and President of the Centrist Union group. About was the mayor of Montigny-le-Bretonneux from 1977 to 2004. He was elected senator of Yvelines on 24 September 1995 and reelected on 26 September 2004. With Catherine Picard, he helped draft the About-Picard law on 12 June 2001.