List of Famous people born in France

Marie Henri Andoyer was a French astronomer and mathematician.

Jean-Baptiste Charles Claudot (1733–1805), a French painter of landscapes, flowers, and still-life, was born in Badonviller (Vosges). Several of his works are in the Museum of Nancy, where he died. He was a student of Girardet and a friend of Joseph Vernet.

Ferdinand Lion was a Swiss journalist and writer.

Jean-Baptiste Blanchard was a French painter.

Charles de Condren, Cong. Orat., a Doctor of the Sorbonne, was a French mystic of the 17th century, and is considered a leading member of the French School of Spirituality.

Noël Coypel was a French painter, and was also called Coypel le Poussin, because he was heavily influenced by Poussin.

Gilles Corrozet was a French writer and printer-bookseller.

Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson, who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction.

Jean-Baptiste-Sauveur Gavaudan was a French opera singer who sang leading tenor roles, primarily with the Opéra Comique in Paris. He was particularly known for his skill as an actor and was sometimes referred to as "the Talma of the Opéra Comique". He also served as the director of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels for the 1817–1818 season. Born in Salon-de-Provence, he made his stage debut in 1791 at the Théâtre Montansier. Gavaudan was married to the soprano Alexandrine Marie Agathe Gavaudan-Ducamel from 1798 until his death in Paris at the age of 67.