List of Famous people born in France

Lucien Pothier was a successful early twentieth century French racing cyclist who participated in the 1903 Tour de France and finished second.

Gaston Modot was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors.

Samuel Des Marets or Desmarets was a French Protestant theologian.

René Goupil, S.J., was a French Jesuit lay missionary who became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus shortly before his death. He was the first of the eight North American Martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church to receive the crown of martyrdom and the first canonized Catholic martyr in North America.

Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser was a German composer and theorist.

Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet was a French pharmacist, botanist and one of the earliest botanical explorers in South America. He was one of the first botanists to study ethnobotany in the Neotropics.

Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician.

Hugh Aycelin was a French Cardinal. He was also known as Hughes of Billom, Ugo Billomo, Hughes Séguin, Ugo Seguin de Billon, Hughes Aycelin de Montaigut and Hugues Séguin de Billon.