List of Famous people born in France

Louis-Sextius de Jarente de La Bruyère was a French prelate born in 1706. He was Bishop of Digne in 1747, Bishop of Orléans in 1757, and made commander in the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1762.

Frédéric Brun is a former French racing cyclist. He rode in twelve Grand Tours between 1980 and 1991. He rode the 1990 Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta a Espana in 1985 and 1991 and for the Tour de France he rode in 1980, each year between 1982 and 1988 as well as 1990. He had three top 10 stage finishes, two in 1984 and one in 1987. He finished every Grand Tour that he started.

Henri Claude Bénard was a French physicist, best known for his research on convection in liquids that now carries his name, Bénard convection. In addition, the historical surveys of both Tokaty and von Kármán both acknowledge that Bénard studied the vortex shedding phenomenon later named the Kármán vortex street, prior to von Karman's own contributions. Bénard specialized in experimental fluid dynamics, and the use of optical methods to study it. He was a faculty member at the universities at Lyon, Bordeaux, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris.