List of Famous people born in France

Maurice Delage

First Name Maurice
Last Name Delage
Born on November 13, 1879
Died on September 21, 1961 (aged 81)

Maurice Charles Delage was a French composer and pianist.

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Johannes Piscator

First Name Johannes
Last Name Piscator
Born on March 27, 1546
Died on July 26, 1625 (aged 79)
Born in France, Grand Est

Johannes Piscator was a German Reformed theologian, known as a Bible translator and textbook writer.

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Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel

First Name Paolo
Last Name Revel
Born on May 2, 1888
Died on May 31, 1973 (aged 85)

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.

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Jean-Baptiste Massieu

First Name Jean-Baptiste
Last Name Massieu
Born on September 17, 1743
Died on June 6, 1818 (aged 74)

Jean-Baptiste Massieu was a French bishop, politically active during the French Revolution.

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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel
First Name Hortense
Born on December 14, 1784
Died on January 2, 1845 (aged 60)

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.

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Ludwig Munzinger

First Name Ludwig
Last Name Munzinger
Died on November 15, 1957
Born in France, Grand Est

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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Attala

Born on November 30, 0689
Died on December 3, 0741 (aged 52)
Born in France, Grand Est
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Pierre de Fermat

First Name Pierre
Last Name Fermat
Died on January 12, 1665
Born in France, Occitania

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.

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Jean-Baptiste Le Brument

First Name Jean-Baptiste
Last Name Brument
Born on January 7, 1736
Died on July 6, 1804 (aged 68)
Born in France, Normandy
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Henry Damian Juncker

First Name Henry
Last Name Juncker
Born on August 22, 1809
Died on October 2, 1868 (aged 59)
Born in France, Grand Est

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.

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