List of Famous people born in France

Agnès Martin-Lugand is a French novelist who gained fame with Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café when she published it on Kindle in December 2012. By 2017, her five novels had clocked up sales of two million worldwide.

Jean Desailly was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946, and later participated in about 90 movies.

Annick Dumont is a French figure skating coach. She coaches in Champigny, alongside Pierre Trente. Among her current and former students are two time European Figure Skating Championships bronze medalist Stanick Jeannette, Gabriel Monnier, Jérémy Prévoteaux, Vincent Restencourt, two time French champion Laëtitia Hubert, four time French silver medalist Frédéric Dambier, Alban Préaubert and Florent Amodio.

Delphine Ernotte is a French telecommunications and media executive. She is the chief executive officer of France Télévisions, and a former executive at Orange S.A.

Jacques René Hébert was a French journalist and the founder and editor of the extreme radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne during the French Revolution.

Xavier Beauvois is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.

Diego Buñuel is a Franco-American film-maker born 21 july 1975 in Paris and the host and director of the National Geographic Channel series Don't Tell My Mother. He is also the host of a television news show in France called Les Nouveaux Explorateurs, broadcast on Canal Plus. In 2014, he was appointed Director of Documentaries and Factual Entertainment at Canal Plus. In 2018, he joined Netflix as Director of Original Documentaries in Europe.

Tessa Worley is a French World Cup alpine ski racer and non-commissioned officer. She has competed in all five alpine disciplines and specialises in giant slalom.

Xavier Deluc is a French actor, director and scriptwriter. He is most known for acting in TV series such as 'Marc Eliot', Dolmen and 12 seasons of 'Research Unit' as 'Captain Martin Bernier', and starring role in movies including He Died with His Eyes Open in 1985 and Captive in 1986.

Philip II, byname Philip Augustus, was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French monarch to style himself "King of France". The son of King Louis VII and his third wife, Adela of Champagne, he was originally nicknamed Dieudonné (God-given) because he was a first son and born late in his father's life. Philip was given the epithet "Augustus" by the chronicler Rigord for having extended the crown lands of France so remarkably.