List of Famous people born in France

Auguste Poulet-Malassis

First Name Auguste
Born on March 16, 1825
Died on February 11, 1878 (aged 52)
Born in France, Normandy

Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire.

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Magloire-Désiré Barthet

First Name Magloire-Désiré
Born on January 1, 1832
Died on January 1, 1912 (aged 80)

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Dakar in Senegal.

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Jean Wall

First Name Jean
Last Name Wall
Died on October 24, 1959

Jean Wall (1900–1959) was a French stage and film actor. He also directed two films.

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Némir

Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)
Born in France, Occitania
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François Coillard

First Name François
Last Name Coillard
Born on July 17, 1834
Died on May 27, 1904 (aged 69)

François Coillard was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa.

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François Derand

First Name François
Last Name Derand
Born on November 30, 1587
Died on October 29, 1644 (aged 56)
Born in France, Grand Est

François Derand was a French Jesuit architect.

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Paul Philippe Cret

First Name Paul
Last Name Cret
Born on October 24, 1876
Died on September 8, 1945 (aged 68)

Paul Philippe Cret was a French-born Philadelphia architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he taught a design studio in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour

First Name Paul-Armand
Died on October 26, 1896
Born in France, Normandy

Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was a French statesman.

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Jean-Claude Petit

First Name Jean-Claude

Jean-Claude Petit is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and yé-yé girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert.

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François-Joseph Bélanger

First Name François-Joseph
Born on April 12, 1744
Died on May 1, 1818 (aged 74)

François-Joseph Bélanger was a French architect and decorator working in the Neoclassic style.

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