List of Famous people born in France

Nicolas Johnny Isimat-Mirin is a French professional footballer who plays as a central defender for American Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City.

(Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Jean-François Champollion, also known as Champollion le jeune, was a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. A child prodigy in philology, he gave his first public paper on the decipherment of Demotic in 1806, and already as a young man held many posts of honor in scientific circles, and spoke Coptic and Arabic fluently. During the early 19th century, French culture experienced a period of 'Egyptomania', brought on by Napoleon's discoveries in Egypt during his campaign there (1798–1801) which also brought to light the trilingual Rosetta Stone. Scholars debated the age of Egyptian civilization and the function and nature of hieroglyphic script, which language if any it recorded, and the degree to which the signs were phonetic or ideographic. Many thought that the script was only used for sacred and ritual functions, and that as such it was unlikely to be decipherable since it was tied to esoteric and philosophical ideas, and did not record historical information. The significance of Champollion's decipherment was that he showed these assumptions to be wrong, and made it possible to begin to retrieve many kinds of information recorded by the ancient Egyptians.

Louis Georges Gustave de Caunes, professionally known as Georges de Caunes, was a well-known French television and radio presenter, journalist, writer and producer whose career spanned over six decades in French language television and radio.

Amélie Etasse is a French actress.

Bernard Farcy is a French theatre and film actor best known for his role in action-comedy franchise Taxi.

Mathias Coureur is a Martiniquais international footballer who plays as a winger for Cherno More Varna in the Bulgarian First League.

Louis Dominique Garthausen, also known as Cartouche, who usually went by the name of Louis Bourguignon or Louis Lamarre when he wanted to hide his identity, was a highwayman reported to steal from the rich and give to the poor in the environs of Paris during the Régence until the authorities had him broken on the wheel.

Assa Traoré is a French Black Lives Matter activist and leader of the Committee for Justice and Truth for Adama. The committee is named after her half-brother, Adama Traoré, who died in police custody.

Miguel Crespo da Silva is a French professional footballer who plays for Fenerbahçe as a midfielder.