List of Famous people born in France

Jean Rousseau was a French viol player, theorist, composer, and author remembered principally for his Traité de la viole (1687), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time, as well as on techniques used in the construction of viols.

Georges Louis Bouligand was a French mathematician who introduced paratingent cones and contingent cones.

Zacharie Charles Landelle was a French painter who specialized in portraits. He is best known for his Orientalist works.

Luc Jacquet is a French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the film March of the Penguins, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2005 and received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. He also directed The Fox And the Child. It was released in Britain and Ireland in slightly re-edited dubbed English-language version with narration by Kate Winslet, and was released in the United States on 29 February 2008.

Henri Lignon was a French cyclist. He was second place twice in the French National Road Race Championships in 1907 and 1909, and sixteenth of the Tour de France in 1905.

Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul, called Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, was a French diplomat and aristocrat from the Gouffier branch of the Choiseul family. A member of the Académie française, he served as French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1784 until the fall of the French monarchy and a scholar of ancient Greece.