List of Famous people born in France

Jean Bouhier was a French magistrate, jurisconsultus, historian, translator, bibliophile and scholar. He served as the first président à mortier to the parlement de Bourgogne from 1704 to 1728, when he resigned to devote himself to his historic and literary work following his 1727 election to the Académie française.

Peter Waldo, Valdo, Valdes, or Waldes, also Pierre Vaudès or de Vaux, was a leader of the Waldensians, a Christian spiritual movement of the Middle Ages.

André François le Breton was a French publisher. He was one of the four publishers of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, along with Michel-Antoine David, Laurent Durand, and Antoine-Claude Briasson. Le Breton contributed some articles to the Encyclopédie, but acted primarily as publisher and editor, often against Diderot's will.

Elie Robert Schmitz was a Franco-American pianist and composer.

Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier (1883–1951) was a French caricaturist and illustrator.

Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins was Justice Minister of France from 1445 to 1461 and from 1465 to 1472.