List of Famous people born in France

Jean-Marc Nattier was a French painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire.

Yvonne Yma (1887–1959) was a French stage and film actress.

Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu was a French painter. She was born at La Rochelle and studied painting under Jean-Baptiste Greuze. She established herself as a successful artist, specializing in historical and mythological genres and portraiture. She ran a school at Lille, Belgium, in Flanders, until the outbreak of the French Revolution. With the restoration of the Bourbons (1814–1815) she was granted a state pension. Several of her works survive, including a portrait of Princess Elisabeth Lubomirksa which remains in the National Museum of Warsaw in Poland.

Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze was an 18th–19th-century French naturalist.

Louis Pierre Henri Jobier was a French fencer. He won a gold medal in the foil competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Rachel is a French singer best known in Europe for representing France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.