List of Famous people born in France

Sophie Theallet is a French fashion designer whose clients include First Lady Michelle Obama, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Oprah Winfrey, and Gabrielle Union,

Leslie Bourgouin, better known by her mononym Leslie, is a French pop-R&B singer born on 4 February 1985 in Le Mans, France. Her father is Vietnamese and Polynesian while her mother is French. She is married to French music producer Djamel Ferazi known as Kore, with whom she has a son.

Raymond Bussières was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille and died in Paris. He is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the actress Annette Poivre.

Alain Carignon (born 23 February 1949 in Vizille, is a conservative French politician. Mayor of Grenoble from 1983 to 1995, he became junior minister in charge of environmental issues in the second Chirac government; in 1986 he proposed legislation against major radioactive risks. He then became minister in charge of media and telecommunication in the Balladur government., but had to resign from that position when his indictment for corruption became inevitable. He was later sentenced to a 4 years jail term, and made unelectable for a further 5 years. He served 29 months of his jail sentence, the longest ever for a French politician convicted of corruption.

Claude Askolovitch is a French journalist and author.

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. Le Verrier sent the coordinates to Johann Gottfried Galle in Berlin, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science.

Alba Gaïa Bellugi is a French actress of Danish and Italian origin. She is best known for her performance as Elisa in The Intouchables (2011).

Suzanne Gabriello was a French singer and actress.

Muriel Casals i Couturier was a Catalanist economist with both Spanish and French nationality.

Rémy Pflimlin was a French media executive. He served as the CEO of France 3 from 1999 to 2005, the Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne from 2006 to 2010, and France Télévisions, France's public national television broadcaster, from 2010 to 2015.