List of Famous people born in France

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet was a French politician, playwright and poet. He was also a member of the Académie française and a prominent Freemason.

Major-General Claude Martin was an officer in the French, and later the English East India Company's army in India. He rose to the rank of major-general in the English East India Company's Bengal Army. Martin was born in Lyon, France, into a humble background, and was a self-made man who left a substantial lasting legacy in the form of his writings, buildings and the educational institutions he founded posthumously. There are now ten schools named after him, two in Lucknow, two in Calcutta and six in Lyon. The small village of Martin Purwa in India was also named after him.

Fra' Antoine de Paule was elected the 56th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller on 10 March 1623. He died on Malta thirteen years later, on 9 June 1636, after a long illness and at the age of 85. His epitaph eulogizes him as a leader who both loved his subjects and was loved by them in return. He is said to have made more resources available to the Order, thus strengthening it. He also sought to fortify ramparts which the Order had erected for defense.

Antoine Étex was a French sculptor, painter and architect.

Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier was a French anatomist and surgeon born in Paris.

Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux was a French naturalist.

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi was a multilingual music writer and critic who promoted musicians such as Franz Liszt and Modest Mussorgsky.

Morvan Marchal, is the Breton name of Maurice Marchal, an architect and a militant Breton nationalist. He is best known for having designed the national flag of Brittany.

Charles Arnould Tournemire was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphonies, four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos. He is mainly remembered for his organ music, the best known being set of pieces called L'Orgue mystique.

Paul René Colas was a French sports shooter who competed at the 1908, 1912, 1920 and the 1924 Summer Olympics.