List of Famous people born in France

Germaine Michel was a French stage and film actress.

Gilbert Génébrard was a French Benedictine exegete and Orientalist.

The French poet Jacques Delille was born at Aigueperse in Auvergne on 22 June 1738 and died in Paris on 1 May 1813. He came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. He barely survived the slaughter of the French Revolution and lived for some years outside France, including three years in England. The poems on abstract themes that he published after his return were less well received.

Pierre-Édouard Lémontey was a French lawyer, politician, scholar and historian.

Eugène-Anatole Demarçay was a French chemist who designed highly specialized apparatus for use in his research. A specialist in the emerging field of spectroscopy, he detected the presence of the rare earth element europium in 1896, and isolated it as the oxide europia in 1901. He helped Marie Curie to confirm the existence of another new element, radium, in 1898.

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier was a French entomologist and naturalist.

Salomon de Brosse was an influential early 17th-century French architect, a major influence on François Mansart. Salomon was born in Verneuil-en-Halatte, Oise, into a prominent Huguenot family, the grandson through his mother of the designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau and the son of the architect Jean de Brosse. He was established in practice in Paris in 1598 and was promoted to court architect in 1608.

Jacques Mercanton (1909–1997) was a French cinematographer.