List of Famous people born in France

Betty Catroux is a former Chanel model, and fashion icon. She has been cited as a muse by both Yves Saint Laurent and Tom Ford.

Simon de La Brosse was a French actor from Suresnes. He started his acting career in the role of Sylvain in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach in 1983. He committed suicide in 1998, shortly after completing the TV film Louise et les Marchés.

Tarita Teri'ipaia is a former French actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent most famous for having been the third wife of actor Marlon Brando, whom she later divorced. For media and entertainment appearances and engagements, she has usually been billed as Tarita.

Vincent Reynouard is a French historical revisionist, Holocaust denier, and proponent of neo-Nazism. He has been convicted and jailed in France under the Gayssot Act, which bars Holocaust denial.

Jacques-Henri Laffite is a French former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1986. He achieved six Grand Prix wins, all while driving for the Ligier team. From 1997 to 2013, Laffite was a presenter for TF1.

Michèle Cotta is a French political journalist.

Alexandre Debanne is a French television presenter.

Estelle Cascarino is a women's association football player from Saint-Priest, Rhône, Lyon, France. She plays as a defender for Bordeaux and the France women's national football team.

Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. He died at age 20 from wounds suffered in a duel.

Paloma Picasso, is a French and Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, best known for her jewelry designs for Tiffany & Co. and her signature perfumes. She is the daughter of 20th-century artist Pablo Picasso and painter Françoise Gilot.