List of Famous people born in France
Maurice Delage
Maurice Charles Delage was a French composer and pianist.
Johannes Piscator
Johannes Piscator was a German Reformed theologian, known as a Bible translator and textbook writer.
Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel
Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel was an Italian politician and fencer. He was the son of Count Vittorio Thaon di Revel and Elfrida Maria Atkinson. He fought in the First World War. He was also Mayor of Torino (1929–35) and Italian Minister of Finance (1935–43) in the Mussolini Cabinet. After the war, he was president of the organising committee of the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Jean-Baptiste Massieu
Jean-Baptiste Massieu was a French bishop, politically active during the French Revolution.
Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot was a French painter, mainly of genre scenes. A native of Paris, she began studies with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, a popular history painter and family friend, at the age of seven; when he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1807, she followed him, arriving in 1808 and remaining there until 1816. There she depicted the customs and costumes of Italian peasants in great detail. Such foreign experience was rare for a woman artist, and influenced much of her work. She regularly exhibited her work at the Paris Salon, showing some 110 paintings there between 1811 and 1840.
Ludwig Munzinger
Ludwig Munzinger is best known as the founder of the German encyclopedia Munzinger-Archiv. His son Ludwig Munzinger Jr. took over the running of the organization after his death.
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Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. He was also a lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France.
Jean-Baptiste Le Brument
Henry Damian Juncker
Henry Damian Juncker was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of Alton, Illinois, serving from 1857 until his death.