List of Famous people born in France
Armand Gensonné
Armand Gensonné was a French politician.
Madeleine Bouchez
Paulus Renealmus
Paschasius Radbertus
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.
Marcelle Hainia
Marcelle Hainia (1896–1968) was a French stage and film actress.
Léon Bary
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.
Mathias Loras
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.
Jules Kruger
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.
Jules-François Lecoq
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.
Joseph Noyon
Joseph-Aimé-Paul Noyon was a French organist and composer of classical music.