List of Famous people born in France

Henri-Pierre Danloux was a French painter and draftsman.

Jean Devaines was a French state bureaucrat and journalist. He was a relation of Eusèbe de Salverte and a friend of Julie de Lespinasse.

Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique. He is also notable as the first scientist to study the feral child Victor of Aveyron.

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician, was born at Mézières, where his father was a bookseller.

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of Académie française.

Henri-Robert von der Mühll was a Swiss architect and member of the Von der Mühll family. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Ivo of Chartres, also known as Saint Ivo in the Roman Catholic Church, was the Bishop of Chartres, France from 1090 until his death, and an important canonist during the Investiture Crisis.

Jean Doujat was a French lawyer, juris consultus, professor of canon law at the Collège royal, docteur-régent at the faculté de droit de Paris, preceptor of the Dauphin and historian. His works include histories of the reign of Louis XIV.

Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye was a French historian, classicist, philologist and lexicographer.