List of Famous people born in France

Antoine de Montazet was a French theologian, of Jansenist tendencies, who became bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon. He was elected to the Académie française in 1756, but did not produce significant literary works.

Pauline Auzou was a French painter and art instructor, who exhibited at the Paris Salon and was commissioned to make paintings of Napoleon and his wife Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma.

Jacques-André Naigeon was a French artist, atheist–materialist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the Encyclopédie and for reworking Baron d'Holbach's and Diderot's manuscripts.

Antonin Poncet was a French surgeon.

Antoine Loysel, Seigneur of Courroy, Fouilloy and Églantier, was born on 16 February 1536 in Beauvais nd passed away on 28 April 1617 in Paris. He was a French jurisconsult known for collecting the general principles of old French customary law.