List of Famous people born in France

Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan or William le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect.

Edmond-Joseph Béliard, known as Édouard was a French Impressionist painter.

Louis Bastien was a French racing cyclist and fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the gold medal in the men's 25 kilometre race. He also competed in the individual épée event at the same games.

Guillaume François Rouelle was a French chemist and apothecary. In 1754 he introduced the concept of a base into chemistry as a substance which reacts with an acid to form a salt).

Jean Alexis Achard (1807–1884) was a French painter.

Jean-Charles de Coucy was an ecclesiastic who was Archbishop of Reims.

Claude Auguste Lamy was a French chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862.

André-Aimé-René Masson was a French artist.