List of Famous people born in France

Abel Jules Édouard Ferry was a French politician.

Maxime Cressy is a French-American tennis player.

Francis George Steiner, FBA was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".

José Touré is a French former professional football player.

Jacques Dynam was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1942 and 2004, among which the Fantomas saga.

Sophie Cluzel is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been as the Secretary of State in charge of People with Disabilities in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex since 17 May 2017.

Patrick Buisson is a conservative French historian, journalist and political advisor. He was a journalist for Minute, Valeurs Actuelles and Le Crapouillot as well as La Chaîne Info. He has written several books about Vichy France, the Algerian War and the Indochina War. The founder and co-owner of Publifact, a polling agency, he was a key advisor to former President Nicolas Sarkozy from 2006 to 2012, during which time he surreptitiously recorded private conversations he had with the president. He is the co-presenter of Historiquement show, a television program on Histoire, a subsidiary of the TF1 Group, which he chairs.

Victor Schœlcher was a French abolitionist writer, politician and journalist, best known for his work towards and leading role in the abolition of slavery in France in 1848, during the French Second Republic.

Pascal Dusapin is a French composer born in Nancy, France. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy.

Louise Adélaïde Desnos, also known as Louise Desnos, was a French portrait and history painter.