List of Famous people born in France

Pierre Barouh was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film.

Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor. A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was married to the actress Georgette Tissier.

Marc d'Anna, writing under the pen name Alexandre del Valle, is a Franco-Italian writer, professor, columnist, and political commentator. He is known primarily for his analysis of Islamic extremism, and his criticism of Erdoğan's neo-Ottoman, Islamist, and post-Kemalist Turkey. Del Valle is a proponent of the "PanWest paradigm"—the cooperation between the West and Russia against radical Islamism—and coined the concept of "Red-green-brown alliance" in 2002.

Marie-Christine Barrault is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You.

Imran Louza is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Nantes. Louza formerly represented Morocco as a youth international.

Pape Alassane Gueye is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille.

Eugène Paul Louis Schueller was a French pharmacist and entrepreneur who was the founder of L'Oréal, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty. He was one of the founders of modern advertising.

Jules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government.

Pascal Danel is a French pop singer and composer. He started his career as a singer in 1964. After two minor hits, he scored a number 1 hit single in France and various European countries with "La Plage aux Romantiques", a gold disc in 1966, followed in 1967 by the international success of "Kilimandjaro", a platinum and number 1 single, recorded by Danel in six languages. The song was recorded more than 180 times by various international artists, and is one of the biggest French standards of the decade.

Dany Saval is a French former actress.