List of Famous people born in France
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a French painter born in Paris.
Chéri Maurice
Jean-Baptiste Descamps
Jean-Baptiste Descamps was a French writer on art and artists, and painter of village scenes. He later founded an academy of art and his son later became a museum curator.
Pierre Morel
Pierre Morel is a French film director and cinematographer. His work includes District 13, From Paris with Love, and Taken.
Petrus Comestor
Petrus Comestor, or Pierre le Mangeur, was a twelfth-century French theological writer and university teacher.
Joseph Albrier
Gilles Marie Joseph Albrier was a French painter. He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He exhibited at the Salon in 1819, 1822, 1824, 1827 and 1836.
Pierre Vernier
Pierre Vernier was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. He was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices.
Joseph Antoine Fabre
Joseph Toussaint Reinaud
Joseph Toussaint Reinaud was a French orientalist.