List of Famous people born in France

Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples was a French theologian and a leading figure in French humanism. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. The "d'Étaples" was not part of his name as such, but used to distinguish him from Jacques Lefèvre of Deventer, a less significant contemporary, a friend and correspondent of Erasmus. Both are also sometimes called by the German version of their name, Jacob/Jakob Faber. He himself had a sometimes tense relationship with Erasmus, whose work on Biblical translation and in theology closely paralleled his own.

Jean-Antoine Roucher, was a French poet.

Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy was a French Navy officer and painter of the 18th century. He especially painted naval scenes.

Hubert Rouger was a French politician and socialist activist.

Pierre-Antoine Demachy was a French artist who specialized in painting ruins, Trompe-l'œil architectural decorations and imaginative scenes of Paris.

Claude-François Lizarde de Radonvilliers was a French churchman and teacher.

François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais was a French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin. He also translated Alphonsus Rodriguez's The Practice of Christian Perfection and several works by Anacreon, Homer and Cicero. He was born in Paris.

Édouard Wattelier was a French racing cyclist. He finished third in the 1898 Paris–Roubaix, eighth in the 1901 Paris–Roubaix and second in the 1902 Paris–Roubaix.