List of Famous people born in France

Jean Chassagne was a pioneer submariner, aviator and French racecar driver active 1906-1930. Chassagne finished third in the 1913 French Grand Prix; won the 1922 Tourist Trophy and finished second in the 1925 Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance - all in Sunbeam motorcars. He was second in the 1921 Italian Grand Prix with a Ballot, and set speed records and won races at Brooklands and hill climbs internationally.

Richard Olivier de Longueil (1406–1470) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Philippe Mius d’Entremont, 1st Baron of Pobomcoup (1609–1701) was an early settler of Acadia, and progenitor of the Muise and d’Entremont families of Nova Scotia.

Michel Maximilien Leenhardt was a French painter, known for landscapes, history paintings and genre scenes.

Eugène Montel was a French politician.

Eugène Faure, a French painter of allegories, mythological subjects, and portraits, was born at Seyssinet, near Grenoble, in 1822. He studied under David d'Angers and Rude, and his first work, a landscape, now in the Grenoble Museum, appeared at the Salon in 1847. He died in Paris in 1879. The following are his chief works:

• Dreams of Youth. 1857.
• First Steps in Love. 1861.
• Confidence. 1863.
• Eve. 1864.
• La Source. 1878.

Laurence Ferreira Barbosa is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed eleven films since 1983.

François-Benoît Hoffman was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos, including those set to music by Étienne Méhul and Luigi Cherubini.