List of Famous people born in France

Bernard de Tramelay was the fourth Grand Master of the Knights Templar.

Jean de Beaugrand was the foremost French lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse, de Beaugrand moved to Paris in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician and published works on geostatics. He is credited with naming the cycloid. He lived and worked in Paris as an artist until his death in 1640.

Alice Tissot was a French actress.

Aline Louise Duval was a French stage actress. "Much appreciated in the roles of travesties or grisettes thanks to the biting of her voice and her air of delicacy, she was also noticed in the reviews for her enthusiasm and her good humor."

Jean Paul Alaux (1788–1858), also known as Gentil, was a French landscape painter and lithographer born at Bordeaux on 4 October 1788. His father Pierre-Joseph Alaux was also an artist as were his two older brothers, Jean Alaux, who had the nickname of "the Roman", and Jean-Pierre Alaux (1783–1858).

Alphonse Adolphe Cusin was a French architect, a student of Alfred de Dreux.

Aemilius Magnus Arborius was a Gallo-Roman Latin poet and professor. He was the author of a poem in ninety-two lines in elegiac verse, titled Ad Nympham nimis cultam, which cleverly alludes to Classical authors. The poem was reprinted in several later anthologies.