List of Famous people born in France

Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer.

Remy Belleau was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones.

Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée was a French dramatist who blurred the lines between comedy and tragedy with his comédie larmoyante.

Michèl Yost was a famous French clarinetist and cofounder of the French clarinet school. He was a brilliant instrumentalist and even known beyond the boundaries of France.

Bishop Michael Portier was a Roman Catholic bishop in the United States and the first Bishop of Mobile. He immigrated to the US in 1817, being ordained there. He later founded many parishes and Catholic institutions in Alabama and Florida, particularly in Mobile. Among them was Providence Hospital. He also recruited religious orders of men and women to teach and care for parishioners.

Odo of Deuil, his first name also spelled Odon, Eude or Eudes, was a French historian of and participant in the Second Crusade (1147–1149).

Daniel Hay du Chastelet was a Frenchclergyman and mathematician. His brother Paul Hay du Chastelet was also a writer.

Fulcher of Chartres was a priest and participated in the First Crusade. He served Baldwin I of Jerusalem for many years, and wrote a chronicle of the Crusade, writing in Latin.

Eugène Gigout was a French organist and a composer, mostly of music for his own instrument.