List of Famous people born in France

Bertrand de Saint-Martin was a French cardinal.

Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie is considered to be the founder of the first modern police force.

François Magendie was a French physiologist, considered a pioneer of experimental physiology. He is known for describing the foramen of Magendie. There is also a Magendie sign, a downward and inward rotation of the eye due to a lesion in the cerebellum. Magendie was a faculty at the College of France, holding the Chair of Medicine from 1830 to 1855.

Paul-Auguste Arène was a Provençal poet and French writer.

Pierre du Ryer was a French dramatist.

Balthazar Baro (1596–1650) was a French poet, playwright and romance-writer.

Louis Léger (1843–1923) was a French writer and pioneer in Slavic studies. He was honorary member of Bulgarian Literary Society (now Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also member of Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in Paris. Academic institutions in Saint-Petersburg, Belgrade and Bucharest had given him a different status of membership.

Victor Charles Louis Brochard was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.