List of Famous people born in France

Damien Sargue is a French pop singer known for his performance of Romeo in Gérard Presgurvic's Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour. A French native, he grew up in Caen, Normandy, France with his mother Miriam, his father Pierre, brother Julien, and his sisters Julie and Sarah, until his parents divorced when he was only a year old. When he was little boy he wanted to practice karate but his mom registered him in song lessons in Caen Ecole des Variétés de Caen. In 2009 Damien Sargue married his Romeo and Juliette co-star Joy Esther. The couple divorced in 2010. In 2017 he married dancer Emily Surde, who was also in Romeo and Juliette dance troupe, with whom he has daughter Billie-Rose, born in 2014.

David Rachline is a French politician for National Rally. He was elected mayor of Fréjus in March 2014 and elected to the French Senate in September 2014.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th-century literature.

Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.

Bakary Sako is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Sako has previously played for English League clubs Crystal Palace, Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion as well as the Mali national team.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French and Mauritian nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

Zal Batmanglij is an American film director and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote the 2011 film Sound of My Voice and the 2013 film The East, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Netflix series The OA, which debuted in 2016.

Boris Vallaud is a French politician of the Socialist Party who was elected to the French National Assembly in the 2017 elections, representing the department of Landes.

Georges Corraface is a French actor of Greek origin, born on December 7th, 1952 in Paris, France. He has an international career in film and television, following many years in French theatre, notably as a member of the renowned International Center for Theatre Research under the direction of Peter Brook in the Peter Brook Company. His notable film credits credits include To Tama, Escape from L.A., La Pasión Turca, Vive La Mariée, Impromptu, Christopher Columbus, A Touch of Spice, and a feature film debut in The Mahabharata. His most popular television appearances include La Bicyclette Bleue, L'Éte Rouge in France, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in the USA and Drifting Cities in Greece..

Jacques-Henri Eyraud is a French entrepreneur, media man and current president of Olympique de Marseille, as well as European Club Association Representative on the UEFA Club Competitions Committee.