List of Famous people born in France

Jean Marie Joseph Capgras was a French psychiatrist who is best known for the Capgras delusion, a disorder named after him.

Ferdinand Payan was a French bicyclist of the early 20th century. He was born in Arles in 1870.

Aloïs Catteau was an early-twentieth-century Belgian road racing cyclist who participated in the inaugural 1903 Tour de France and finished tenth. His best result was the 1904 Tour de France, where he finished 3rd.

Nicholas Jenson was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy. Jenson acted as Master of the French Royal Mint at Tours, and is credited with being the creator of one of the finest early Roman type faces. Nicholas Jenson has been something of an iconic figure among students of early printing since the nineteenth century when the aesthete William Morris praised the beauty and perfection of his roman font. Jenson is an important figure in the early history of printing and a pivotal force in the emergence of Venice as one of the first great centers of the printing press.

Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp–Feuillet notation. His grand-father was called Christophe and his father, a violonist of the king's chamber, was simply called Louis. Following a custom of the time, Pierre Beauchamp was named Pierre after his godfather Pierre Vacherot, tailor of the queen's pages and a relative of the Beauchamps family. See Regine Kunzle and John Powell Powell, John S. “Pierre Beauchamps, Choreographer to Molière's Troupe Du Roy.” Music & Letters, vol. 76, no. 2, 1995, pp. 168–186. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/737729. Accessed 4 Nov. 2020.

Claude François Fraguier was a French churchman and writer.