List of Famous people born in France

Germain de Brie, sometimes Latinized as Germanus Brixius, was a French Renaissance humanist scholar and poet. He was closely associated with Erasmus and had a well-known literary feud with Thomas More.

Guillaume Bautru, comte de Serrant was a French satirical poet, court favourite and a protégé and diplomatic agent of cardinal Richelieu.

Louis-Joseph Maurin was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon.

Vital Roux (1766–1846) was a French businessman. He notably is co-founder of ESCP Europe business school.

Hugh of Lincoln, also known as Hugh of Avalon, was a French noble, Benedictine and Carthusian monk, bishop of Lincoln in the Kingdom of England, and Catholic saint. At the time of the Reformation, he was the best-known English saint after Thomas Becket. His feast is observed by Catholics on 16 November and by Anglicans on 17 November.

Alexandre-Charles-Albert-Joseph Renard was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. He was ordained on 12 July 1931 in Lille.

Louis Henri Barboux was a prominent French financial lawyer, politician, and member of the Académie française.