List of Famous people born in France

Louis Laget was a French republican politician. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1871 to 1876 and a Senator from 1876 to 1882.

Henri de Montaut was a French draftsman, engraver, and illustrator of the 19th century. He sometimes signed Henri de Hem, Monta or Hy.

Gottfried von Strassburg is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, an adaptation of the 12th-century Tristan and Iseult legend. Gottfried's work is regarded, alongside the Nibelungenlied and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, as one of the great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages. He is probably also the composer of a small number of surviving lyrics. His work became a source of inspiration for Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (1865).

General Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard Campenon was a French general and politician.

Henri Charles Manguin was a French painter, associated with the Fauves.

Henri François Jean André Marchand known as Henri Marchand — was a French actor of stage and screen.

Louis (de) Verjus, count of Crécy was a French politician and diplomat.

Georges Ladoux was an army major and from 1914 the head of the Deuxième Bureau, French military intelligence during World War I. He was responsible for recruiting Mata Hari as a French spy, whom he met in Vittel in 1916. Ladoux was later arrested for being a double agent himself, but eventually cleared of all charges.