List of Famous people born in France

Louis Joachim Marie François Giscard d'Estaing is a French politician and former member of the National Assembly of France. He is the son of the late President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020) and Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing. He was a deputy for the Puy-de-Dôme department from 2002, when he held his father's old seat on his retirement, until 2012 when he was defeated by the Green candidate Danielle Auroi. He remains mayor of Chamalières, a post he has held since 2005. His father had also been mayor of Chamalières from 1967 to 1974.   

Jérémy Chardy is a French professional tennis player. He has won one ATP World Tour singles title, in Stuttgart in 2009. His best Grand Slam singles performance was reaching the quarterfinals of the 2013 Australian Open. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 25 on 28 January 2013.

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.

Jeannette Bougrab is a French lawyer and politician. She served as the junior minister for Youth and Community Life from 14 November 2010 to 10 May 2012 and is a member of the UMP party. Prior to this, she was the Chair of the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission (HALDE) from 16 April 2010 to 14 November 2010.

Mark Maggiori is a French-American painter, graphic designer, draftsman, musician, music video director and lead vocalist of the nu metal band Pleymo. He is noted for paintings of American cowboys, American Indians and the American Southwest.

Karim Djeriou, better known by his stage name Heuss l'Enfoiré, is a French rapper of Algerian descent.

Henri Emmanuelli was a French politician. A member of the French Socialist Party, he was deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981, from 1986 to 1997, and from 2000 to 2017.

Nicolas Salvadori, better known by his stage name Seth Gueko, is a French rapper. He has released two albums that have charted in France and a number of street albums and mixtapes.

Alain Penaud is a former rugby union player. He held the position of flyhalf, mainly at CA Brive. He was selected 32 times for the French national team, from 1992 to 2000. He is the Father of another French international, Damian Penaud.