List of Famous people born in France

Jacqueline Maillan was a French actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1947 to 1992.

François-Xavier Demaison is a French actor and humorist.

Michel Hidalgo was a French professional football player and manager. He was the head coach of the French national team from 1976 to 1984, with whom he won the UEFA Euro 1984 on home soil, also reaching the semi-finals of the 1982 FIFA World Cup. Hidalgo died on 26 March 2020 in Marseille, at the age of 87.

Jacques Demy was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style. Demy's style drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the documentary realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity, lush musical scores and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).

Philip the Good was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonged. During his reign, the Burgundian State reached the apex of its prosperity and prestige, and became a leading centre of the arts. Philip is known in history for his administrative reforms, his patronage of Flemish artists such as van Eyck and Franco-Flemish composers such as Gilles Binchois, and the capture of Joan of Arc. In political affairs, he alternated between alliances with the English and the French in an attempt to improve his dynasty's powerbase. Additionally, as ruler of Flanders, Brabant, Limburg, Artois, Hainaut, Holland, Luxembourg, Zeeland, Friesland and Namur, he played an important role in the history of the Low Countries.

Valérie Boyer is a French politician serving as a Senator for Bouches-du-Rhône since 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR), she was previously elected to the National Assembly from 2007 until 2020. Boyer has also been a municipal councillor of Marseille since 2001.

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu was a French actor.

André Manoukian is a French songwriter, arranger, jazz musician, and actor of Armenian descent. Since 2002, he has also been one of the four judges in the French version of Pop Idol, Nouvelle Star.

Paul Nardi is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Lorient.

Claude Nougaro was a French songwriter and singer.