List of Famous people born in France

Desiré-Raoul Rochette, was a French archaeologist.

Joseph Vendryes or Vendryès was a French Celtic linguist. After studying with Antoine Meillet, he was chairman of Celtic languages and literature at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He founded the journal Études Celtiques. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and a consultant with the International Auxiliary Language Association, which standardized and presented Interlingua.

Georges Lannes was a French film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during his career including André Cornélis (1927).

Jacques Lescot was Bishop of Chartres from December 1641 to 1656.

Father Gabriel Richard was a French Roman Catholic priest and co-founder of the Catholepistemiad of Michigania. He was elected as a nonvoting delegate of the Michigan Territory to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 18th Congress, and was the first Catholic priest to be elected to that body.

Georges Berr in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923.

Jacques Sabon was a French typefounder. He worked with Christian Egenolff in Frankfurt in 1555 and Christophe Plantin of Antwerp in 1565. He is associated with the forms of roman type which were being developed by Claude Garamond and others. On Garamond's death, Plantin and Sabon acquired much of his collection of type, and it is sometimes unclear which were Sabon's own design, and which Garamond's.

Jeanne Loury or Jane Loury (1876–1951) was a French stage and film actress.