List of Famous people born in France

Jean Chapelain was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a literary critic, but his own major work, an epic poem about Joan of Arc called "La Pucelle," (1656) was lampooned by his contemporary Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.

Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him.

Daniel Mendaille was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years.

Odette Talazac (1883–1948) was a French film actress.

Odette Barencey was a French film actress. She appeared in 53 films between 1927 and 1958. She was married to the actor Marcel Barencey.

Charles-Edmond Perrin was a French medieval historian, a professor at the University of Strasbourg and then the Sorbonne, and a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, of which he became president.

Claude Nollier, French actress, was born on 12 December 1919 in Paris, and died 12 February 2009 in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier, French general, was born at Autun, Saône-et-Loire.