List of Famous people born in France

Armand Gensonné

First Name Armand
Last Name Gensonné
Born on August 10, 1758
Died on October 31, 1793 (aged 35)

Armand Gensonné was a French politician.

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Madeleine Bouchez

Madeleine Marguerite Douarin
First Name Madeleine
Born on February 3, 1893
Died on March 2, 1992 (aged 99)
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Paulus Renealmus

First Name Paulus
Last Name Renealmus
Born on January 1, 1560
Died on January 1, 1624 (aged 64)
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Paschasius Radbertus

First Name Paschasius
Born on January 1, 0792
Died on April 26, 0865 (aged 73)

Saint Paschasius Radbertus (785–865) was a Carolingian theologian and the abbot of Corbie, a monastery in Picardy founded in 657 or 660 by the queen regent Bathilde with a founding community of monks from Luxeuil Abbey. His most well-known and influential work is an exposition on the nature of the Eucharist written around 831, entitled De Corpore et Sanguine Domini. He was canonized in 1073 by Pope Gregory VII. His feast day is April 26. His works are edited in Patrologia Latina vol. 120 (1852) and his important tract on the Eucharist, De Corpore et Sanguine Domini, in a 1969 edition by B. Paulus, published by Brepols.

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Marcelle Hainia

Marcelle Pontagnier
First Name Marcelle
Born on November 13, 1896
Died on August 9, 1968 (aged 71)

Marcelle Hainia (1896–1968) was a French stage and film actress.

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Léon Bary

First Name Léon
Last Name Bary
Born on June 6, 1880
Died on January 7, 1954 (aged 73)

Léon Bary was a French actor. He appeared in 52 films between 1916 and 1955. He was born in Paris, France and died in Paris, aged 73.

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Mathias Loras

First Name Mathias
Last Name Loras
Born on August 30, 1792
Died on February 19, 1858 (aged 65)

Mathias Loras was an immigrant French priest to the United States and the first bishop of the Dubuque Diocese in what would become the state of Iowa.

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Jules Kruger

First Name Jules
Last Name Kruger
Born on July 12, 1891
Died on December 13, 1959 (aged 68)
Born in France, Grand Est

Jules Kruger (1891–1959) was a French cinematographer. He is known particularly for films which he photographed in the 1920s and 1930s for Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Raymond Bernard, and Julien Duvivier. He also worked in Great Britain and in Spain.

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Jules-François Lecoq

First Name Jules-François
Born on October 8, 1821
Died on December 25, 1892 (aged 71)
Born in France, Normandy

Jules François Lecoq was a French clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Luçon and for Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes. He became ordained in 1845. He was appointed bishop in 1875. He died in 1892.

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Joseph Noyon

First Name Joseph
Last Name Noyon
Born on October 3, 1888
Died on October 5, 1962 (aged 74)
Born in France, Normandy

Joseph-Aimé-Paul Noyon was a French organist and composer of classical music.

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