List of Famous people born in France

Paul Nicolas was a French footballer. He was part of the French national team squad at the 1920, 1924, and 1928 Summer Olympics.

Paul Brousse was a French socialist, leader of the possibilistes group. He was active in the Jura Federation, a section of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA), from the northwestern part of Switzerland and the Alsace. He helped edit the Bulletin de la Fédération Jurassienne, along with anarchist Peter Kropotkin. He was in contact with Gustave Brocher between 1877 and 1880, who became anarchist under Brousse's influence. Paul Brousse edited two newspapers, one in French and another in German. He helped James Guillaume publish its bulletin.

Jacques Louis Valon, Marquis de Mimeure was a French soldier and poet.

Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris and Cardinal.

For the French politician, see Gustave Colin.

Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) of tuberculosis and was buried in the family tomb in Taverny in the French department of Val-d'Oise.

Henry Poulaille was a French writer and a pioneer of proletarian literature.