List of Famous people born in France

Richard Peduzzi is a French scenographer. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from September 2002 to August 2008.

Sébastien Vahaamahina is a French rugby union player of Wallisian origin from the French-administered South Pacific overseas collectivity of New Caledonia.

Jawad Bendaoud is a French-Moroccan criminal convicted of harboring some of the terrorists involved in the November 2015 Paris attacks, including the mastermind of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Bendaoud was sentenced to four years in prison in March 2019 for harboring Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh, one of the other terrorists involved in the attacks. Bendaoud had previously been acquitted of the charges in February 2018. In August 2019, he was sentenced to an additional six months in prison for verbally assaulting a prison guard.

Isabelle Mergault is a French actress, director, writer and television/radio personality.

Loïc Négo is a French-born Hungarian footballer who plays for Fehérvár and the Hungary national team as a defender.

Thomas Porcher is a French economist and author. He is a member of the heterodox association of economists called Économistes atterrés.

Lucette Michaux-Chevry was the President of the Regional Council of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe between 1992 and 2004. She is the mother of Guadeloupean UMP politician Marie-Luce Penchard.

Grégory Alldritt is a French rugby union player, currently playing in the back row for Top 14 side La Rochelle. His father, Terence, was born in Kenya to Irish parents and has lived in Stirling, Scotland. His mother is French. He has two older brothers: Tom and Scott.

Pierre-Mathieu Vilmet, professionally known as Pierpoljak, is a French reggae and pop singer.

Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha was an explorer of Egypt and, as the chief engineer of Egypt's public works, 1831–1869, an influential engineer of the Suez Canal. He is listed as a founder of the Suez Canal Company.