List of Famous people born in France

Marion Torrent is a French professional footballer who plays for Division 1 Féminine club Montpellier and France national team. Torrent can play as either a defender or a defensive midfielder.

Claude Érignac was a French prefect on the island of Corsica.

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg, in 1967. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.

Alain Alivon, known under the pseudonym Marius, is a French military and drill instructor member of the Commandos Marine unit and the French Navy. He is mostly known for featuring in the 2005 documentary L'École des bérets verts on France 2 in the program Envoyé spécial. He later appeared on film and television, and publishing his autobiography.

Frank Árpád Darabont is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988) and The Fly II (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels such as The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999) and The Mist (2007).

Florent Stéphane Sinama Pongolle is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Colette de Jouvenel, also known as Bel-Gazou,, was the daughter of French writer Colette and her second husband, Henri de Jouvenel. She was the half-sister of fr:Renaud de Jouvenel and Bertrand de Jouvenel.

Mathieu Demy is a French actor, film director and producer.

Gérald De Palmas is a French singer.