List of Famous people born in France

Chevalier Antoine de Favray was a French painter noted for his portraits of personalities of the Ottoman Empire, as well as paintings of Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Henri-François-Joseph de Régnier was a French symbolist poet, considered one of the most important of France during the early 20th century.

Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries for his studies into the elasticity of steam, conduction of heat, and specific heats of gases. He worked most extensively on the specific heat capacity and the expansion and refractive indices of gases. He collaborated several times with fellow scientist Alexis Petit, the co-creator of the Dulong–Petit law.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol-water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries.

Abdelkader Mohamed Ghezzal is a former French-born Algerian footballer who played as a forward or midfield playmaker.

Bakaye Traoré is a French-born Malian former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He previously played for Amiens SC and AS Nancy in France, for A.C. Milan in Italy, and for Kayseri Erciyesspor and Bursaspor in Turkey. He was capped 24 times at international level by Mali national team scoring twice.

Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, as well as contributing to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.

İbrahim Dağaşan is a Turkish professional footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Kemerspor 2003.

Charles Friedel was a French chemist and mineralogist.

Michel Floréal Chasles was a French mathematician.