List of Famous people born in France

Jean Girardet (1709–1778) was a French painter of portrait miniatures.

Célestin Freinet was a noted French pedagogue and educational reformer.

Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard was a French physician and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bull. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Henri Bonnet was a French politician, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1954.

Franz Theodor Doflein was a German zoologist known for his studies of animal ecology.

Henri Bouchet-Doumenq was a 19th-century French painter who specialized in portraits and landscapes.

Pierre de Bérulle, was a French Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France. He was the founder of the French school of spirituality, who could count among his friends and disciples Vincent de Paul and Francis de Sales.

Georges Yvan "Géo" André was a French track and field athlete and rugby union player. As an athlete he competed at the 1908, 1912, 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics in various events, including long jump, high jump, 400 m sprint, 110 and 400 m hurdles, pentathlon and decathlon. He won a silver medal in the high jump in 1908 and a bronze in the 4 × 400 m relay in 1920, finishing fourth in the 400 m hurdles in 1920 and 1924 and fifth in the standing high jump in 1908. At the 1924 Olympics he took the Olympic Oath and served as the flag bearer for the French delegation.