List of Famous people born in France

Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère was an 18th-century French historian and diplomat.

Romain-Jean-François Hartmann, commonly known as Georges Hartmann was a French music publisher, dramatist and opera librettist.

Eugène Louis Simon was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species.

Irénée-Jules Bienaymé was a French statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables.

Jacques-Guillaume Legrand was a French architect and critic.