List of Famous people born in France

Antoine Danchet was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet.

Victor-Joseph Étienne, called de Jouy, was a French dramatist who abandoned an early military career for a successful literary one.

Louis-Martin Berthault was a French architect, decorator, engraver and landscape artist.

Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.

Maurice Leturgie was a French racing cyclist. In 1907, he won the inaugural edition of the Scheldeprijs one-day race. He also rode in three editions of the Tour de France.

Jean Galbert de Campistron was a French dramatist.

Jacques-Melchior Saint-Laurent, Comte de Barras (1719–1793) was a French Navy officer of the eighteenth century. He notably served in Yorktown Campaign of the War of American Independence.