List of Famous people born in France

François-Henri Salomon de Virelade was a French lawyer. He was elected the third occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1644.

François-Joseph-Philoclès Regnier de La Brière called Regnier was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. The comedian Alcide Tousez was his uncle.

François-Joseph de Beaupoil, marquis de Sainte-Aulaire was a French poet and army officer.

Jacques des Rousseaux, was a French Baroque painter active in Leiden.

Jacques Dubois was a French anatomist. Dubois was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey. He was the brother of Franciscus Sylvius Ambianus, professor of humanities at the Collège de Tournai, Paris.

Michele Viale-Prelà was an aristocratic Catholic priest from Corsica, France, who served as a diplomat for the Holy See in Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria. He became a Cardinal and the Archbishop of Bologna. When Bologna, formerly one of the Papal States, was incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia, he refused to recognize the new rulers.