List of Famous people born in France

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.

Éric Elmosnino is a French actor and musician. He is known internationally for portraying Serge Gainsbourg in Gainsbourg, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor.

Sylvia Pinel is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since 2016, where she represents the 2nd constituency in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. Since 3 September 2016, she has been the leader of the moderate and social-liberal center-left Radical Party of the Left.

Jean-Christophe Averty was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique.

Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.

Invader is a French urban artist. He is known for his ceramic tile mosaics modeled on the pixelated art of 1970s–1980s 8-bit video games, many of which depict the titular aliens from the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders . As of December 2020, his creations can be seen in highly-visible locations in 79 cities in 33 countries. To accompany his citywide installations, or "Invasions", Invader publishes books and maps as guides to the locations of his mosaics.

Florian Sotoca is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club RC Lens.

Boubacar Bernard Kamara is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a centre-back.

Paul Préboist was a French actor. He appeared in more than hundred films, mostly in supporting roles, and is best known as a comic actor.

Aurélien Barrau is a French physicist and philosopher, specialized in astroparticle physics, black holes and cosmology. He works in the CNRS Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC) and is a professor at the Joseph Fourier University.