List of Famous people born in France

Maurice Scève, was a French poet active in Lyon during the Renaissance period. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch. This spiritual love, which animated Antoine Héroet's Parfaicte Amye (1543) as well, owed much to Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine translator and commentator of Plato's works.

Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin, French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris of a noble family.

Marcel Duhamel was a French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint.

Bernard Lafaille was a French engineer. He graduated from the École Centrale Paris in 1923 and was active until his death in 1955.

André Lhote was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.

Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne was a French churchman and scholar.