List of Famous people born in France

Nampalys Mendy is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Leicester City.

Florian Grégoire Claude Lejeune is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Spanish club Deportivo Alavés, on loan from English club Newcastle United. He is capable of playing as either a defender or a midfielder, but plays mostly as a centre-back.

Jean Thurel, or Jean Theurel, was a fusilier of the French Army with an extraordinarily long career that spanned over 75 years of service in the Touraine Regiment. Born in the reign of Louis XIV and dying during that of Napoleon I, Thurel lived in three different centuries.

Cameron Redpath is a Scotland international rugby union player who plays as an inside centre for Bath in the Gallagher Premiership.

Justine Augier is a French woman writer, laureate of the 2011 edition of the Prix Fénéon with her novel En règle avec la nuit.

Alexandre Adler is a French historian, journalist and expert of contemporary geopolitics, the former USSR, and the Middle East. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur (2002). A Maoist in his youth and then a member of the Communist Party (PCF), he shifted to the right at the end of the 1970s and has since become close to US neoconservatives, as did his wife Blandine Kriegel. Adler is the counsellor of Roger Cukiermann, chairman of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France.

Florence Giorgetti was a French stage and film actress. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Lacemaker.

Henri Vidal was a French film actor.

Hadja Cissé is a Senegalese professional handball player.

Isabelle Sadoyan was a French-Armenian actress. She was the wife of actor Jean Bouise. Her filmography includes films by Jeanne Moreau, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Luc Besson, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri Verneuil, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Kechichian and Krzysztof Kieślowski.