List of Famous people born in France

Pierre Soulé was a Franco-American attorney, politician, and diplomat during the mid-19th century. Serving as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 1849 to 1853, he was nominated that year as U.S. Minister to Spain, a post he held until 1855.

Jean Charlier de Gerson was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance. He was one of the first thinkers to develop what would later come to be called natural rights theory, and was also one of the first individuals to defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural vocation as authentic.

Antoine Portail was a French politician, a First President of the Parlement of Paris, and a member of the French Academy.

Germaine Richier was a French sculptor.

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas or Lebas was a French engraver.

Antoine Simon, commonly known as Anton Simon, was a French composer, director and pianist, who made most of his career in Russia.