List of Famous people born in France

Germain Marie Bernard Nouveau (1851–1920) was a French poet associated with the symbolist movement.

Robert Joseph Coffy was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille.

Philippe-Auguste Hennequin was a French history painter and portraitist.

Jean Reboul was a French politician and poet of the Occitan language.

Lorne Campbell Currie was a sailor from Great Britain, who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. With crew John Gretton, Linton Hope and Algernon Maudslay. Currie, as helmsman, took first place in race of the .5 to 1 ton. He was born and died in Le Havre, France. His father, John Martin Currie, was a younger brother of Donald Currie, the ship owner, and acted as agent for the firm in Le Havre.

Antoine Nicolas Duchesne was a French botanist known for his keen observation of variation within species, and for demonstrating that species are not immutable, because mutations can occur. "As Duchesne's observations were unaided by knowledge of modern concepts of genetics and molecular biology, his insight was truly remarkable." His particular interests were in strawberries and gourds.

Antoine Furetière was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel Scarron's City Romance. He was expelled from the Académie Française for seeking to publish his own French language dictionary.