List of Famous people born in France

Antoine Waechter is a French politician, leader of the Independent Ecological Movement.

Bruno Olivier Cheyrou is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Philip III, called the Bold, was king of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, returned to France and was anointed king at Reims in 1271.

Robert Hubert was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.

René Noël Théophile Girard was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on his work and his influence on disciplines such as literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, psychology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian. A founding member of the Annales School of French social history, he specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France over the course of his career. As an academic, he worked at the University of Strasbourg, the University of Paris, and the University of Montpellier.

Jean Tiberi is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from 22 May 1995 to 24 March 2001. As of 2007, he was mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly from the second district of Paris.

Maria Annunziata Carolina Murat, better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was the seventh surviving child and third surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. She was queen of Naples during the reign of her spouse there, and regent of Naples during his absence four times: in 1812-13, 1813, 1814 and 1815.

Salomé Stévenin is a French actress. She began her acting career at the age of 3 when she appeared alongside her father in the film Peaux des Vaches in 1989. Her recent appearances include the 2002 television film Clara cet été là and Douches froides in 2005 for which she won the La Ciotat Film Festival Best Actress award.

Dan Franck is a French novelist and screenwriter.