List of Famous people born in France

François Denis Tronchet was a French jurist, best remembered for having defended Louis XVI of France at his trial and for having contributed to the writing of the French civil code.

Heiric of Auxerre (841–876) was a French Benedictine theologian and writer.

Honoré Fabri was a French Jesuit theologian. He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist.

John Halgren of Abbeville was a French scholastic philosopher and writer of sermons, papal legate and cardinal.

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. The botanist Charles Plumier had been his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.

François d'Orbay was a French draughtsman and architect who worked closely with Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin Mansart.

Friedrich Wilhelm Daniel Levi was a German mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra, especially torsion-free abelian groups. He also worked in geometry, topology, set theory, and analysis.