List of Famous people born in France

Paul Baras was a road racing cyclist and racing driver from France. He competed in several early Grand Prix motor races, and held the world land speed record between November 1904 and January 1905.

Louis Leroy was a French 19th-century printmaker, painter, and playwright.

Charles-Louis Chassin was a French historian who edited the definitive documentary collection on the War in the Vendée.

Jean Bourdichon was a French miniature painter and manuscript illuminator at the court of France between the end of the 15th century and the start of the 16th century, in the reigns of Louis XI of France, Charles VIII of France, Louis XII of France and Francis I of France. He was probably born in Tours, and was a pupil of Jean Fouquet. He died in Tours.

Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud was a French writer and translator.

Charles Benvignat was a French architect, especially active in Lille, then undergoing major urban expansion.