List of Famous people born in France

Jacques Brunel is a French rugby union coach and former player. He was most recently the French national team head coach, having previously been assistant coach for his nation and had led the Italian national team between 2011 and 2016. Brunel, who has spent most of his career in France, formally coached his former team Auch, as well as Bordeaux Bègles, Colomiers, Pau and Perpignan.

Edmonde Charles-Roux was a French writer.

Roger Pierre was a French comedian and actor.

Martine Carol was a French film actress.

Benoit Lecomte is a French-born long-distance swimmer who claimed to be the first man to swim across the Atlantic Ocean without a kick board in 1998.

Françoise d'Eaubonne was a French author and feminist. Her 1974 book Le Féminisme ou la Mort introduced the term ecofeminism. She co-founded the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire, a homosexual revolutionary alliance in Paris.

Hafsia Herzi is a French actress and film director of Algerian and Tunisian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best emerging actor/actress at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.

Nadège Beausson-Diagne is a French actress, singer and columnist. She is mainly known for having played the curator Sara Douala in the television series Plus belle la vie. She also appeared in successful films such as Podium by Yann Moix and Nothing to Declare [Rien à déclarer] by Dany Boon.

Alain Wertheimer is a French billionaire businessman, based in New York City. He owns a controlling interest in Chanel, with his brother Gérard.

Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC was a British/French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed.