List of Famous people born in France

Francis Folger Franklin was the eldest son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read.

Brice Guyart is a foil fencer from France. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a gold in the individual foil at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the older brother of Astrid Guyart.

Bernard Thévenet is a retired French bicycle racer. His sporting career began with ACBB Paris. He is a two-time winner of the Tour de France and known for ending the reign of five-time Tour champion Eddy Merckx, though both feats are tarnished by Thévenet's later admission of steroids use during his career. He also won the Dauphiné Libéré in 1975 and 1976.

Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney was a French philosopher, abolitionist, writer, orientalist, and politician. He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate, but afterwards assumed the name of Volney.

Jean-François Jalkh is a French politician who is the current Member of the European Parliament for National Front, representing East France.

Bruce Benamran is a French YouTube personality mostly known for his French speaking popular science YouTube channel e-penser. He created his channel in August 2013, since then it has reached over one million subscribers.

Boris Boillon was the French ambassador to Tunisia until 24 August 2012. Previously, he was ambassador to Iraq.

Michel Petrucciani was a French jazz pianist. From birth he had osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disease that causes brittle bones and, in his case, short stature. He became one of the most accomplished jazz pianists of his generation despite having pain in his arms.

Jean Nicolas Brice Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa is the son of the former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. Jean is a regional councillor in the city of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and registered as a first-year law student at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 2007. He is a backroom activist for his father's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), a center-right party.

Brigitte Bourguignon is a French politician serving as Minister for Autonomy in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020. A member of the Socialist Party (PS) before she joined La République En Marche! (REM) in 2017, she was the member of the National Assembly for the sixth constituency of Pas-de-Calais from 2012 until her appointment as delegate at the Ministry of Solidarity and Health.