List of Famous people born in France

François Hilarion Paul Olivari, stage name Paul Ollivier was a French film actor.

Nicolas Thomas Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.

Augustin Ringeval was a French cyclist of the early 1900s. He was born in Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes in 1882.

Anselme Payen was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose.

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term travail for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor ½ to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.

Peter Julian Eymard was a French Catholic priest and founder of two religious institutes: the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament for men and the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament for women. Eymard entered the novitiate of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in June 1829. His first attempt as a seminarian ended because of serious illness. Throughout his life, Eymard suffered from poor health, particularly ‘weakness of the lungs’ and migraine headaches.

Théophraste Renaudot was a French physician, philanthropist, and journalist.

Claude Gillot was a French painter, print-maker and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.