List of Famous people born in France

Aurélien Bellanger, born 20 April 1980 in Laval, Mayenne, is a French writer and actor. He debuted in 2010 with a monograph about Michel Houellebecq and has since published four novels. His second novel, L'Aménagement du territoire, received the 2014 Prix de Flore. Due to his occupation with technology and modern life, his novels have been compared to the works of Houellebecq and Honoré de Balzac. In La Croix, Sabine Audrerie notes "S'il fallait chercher un lien, on pourrait retenir la volonté de s'inscrire dans l'héritage balzacien." Less elogious, Jérôme Dupuis of L'Express described him as "a Houellebecq without humour, without sex, without aphorism, without melancholy".

Chantal Delsol is a French philosopher, political historian and novelist. Founder of the Hannah Arendt research institute founded in 1993. She is openly Catholic, and a disciple of Julien Freund and Pierre Boutang, describes herself as a "liberal-conservative".

Jean-Michel Tinivelli is a French actor with Italian roots.

Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.

José Giovanni was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986.

Marc Fesneau is a French politician serving as Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament and Citizen Participation, attached to the Prime Minister since 2018 under Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex. A member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), he previously was president of the Democratic Movement and affiliated group in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2018.

Tatiana de Rosnay is a Franco-British writer.

Manu Chao is a French-born Spanish musician. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek and occasionally in other languages. Chao began his musical career in Paris, busking and playing with groups such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos, which combined a variety of languages and musical styles. With friends and his brother Antoine Chao, he founded the band Mano Negra in 1987, achieving considerable success, particularly in Europe. He became a solo artist after its breakup in 1995, and since then tours regularly with his live band, Radio Bemba.

Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin, is a French hard rock singer and film director. He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.

Luka Karabatić is a French handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team.