List of Famous people born in France

Émile Deville was a French physician, naturalist and taxidermist.

Jean-Paul Grandjean de Fouchy was a French astronomer from a noble family. He introduced the analemma curve which allowed the calculation of the local solar noon according to the time of year in 1740. Analemmatic sundials were introduced by J. J. Lalande.

Valentin de Boulogne, sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style.

Jacob Micyllus, was a German Renaissance humanist and teacher, who conducted the city's Latin school in Frankfurt and held a chair at the University of Heidelberg, during times of great cultural stress in Germany.

Alexis Roland-Manuel was a French composer and critic, remembered mainly for his criticism.

Henry Maret was a French journalist and politician.

Charles Frédéric Girard was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.

Jean Hardouin, French classical scholar, was born at Quimper in Brittany.