List of Famous people born in France

Muretus is the Latinized name of Marc Antoine Muret, a French humanist who was among the revivers of a Ciceronian Latin style and is among the usual candidates for the best Latin prose stylist of the Renaissance.

Hector Sévin was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Archbishop of Lyon.

Saint Ansegisus was a monastic reformer of the Franks.

Charles Henri Joseph Binet was a French Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal.

Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot was a French archbishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Adjutor is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He was born in Vernon, France, where he was made a knight in the First Crusade. He is credited to be the patron saint of swimmers, boaters, and drowning victims, and the patron saint of Vernon, France. The stories given for his patronage of boaters vary. Some state that he was captured by Muslims in The Crusade, who tried to force him to abandon his faith, and when refusing, he escaped persecution by swimming. He swam back to France and entered the Abbey of Trion. There he became a recluse until his death of April 30.

Favorinus of Arelate was an intersex Roman sophist and Academic Skeptic philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian and the Second Sophistic.

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique Céleste (1799–1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. In statistics, the Bayesian interpretation of probability was developed mainly by Laplace.

Audouin Aubert was a French jurist, bishop and Cardinal.