List of Famous people born in France
Sébastien Bourdais
Sébastien Olivier Bourdais is a French professional racing driver, who resides in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is one of the most successful drivers in the history of American Championship car racing, having won 37 races. He won four successive championships under Champ Car World Series sanction from 2004 to 2007.
Audrey Cordon-Ragot
Audrey Cordon-Ragot is a French road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Trek–Segafredo.
Jean Becker
Jean Becker is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He is son of the director Jacques Becker.
Thibault Moulin
Thibault Moulin is a French professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Romanian club Academica Clinceni.
Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc OBE is a French chef. Blanc is the chef patron at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has five Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the Good Food Guide. He is entirely self-taught, but has himself taught or employed other chefs including Heston Blumenthal, John Burton-Race, Michael Caines, Paul Liebrandt, and Marco Pierre White.
Lætitia Dosch
Lætitia Dosch is a French-Swiss actress, playwright and director. Her film credits include Age of Panic, Summertime, Keeper, Montparnasse Bienvenue, and Our Struggles.
Philippe Adrien
Philippe Adrien was a French stage director, actor and playwright. He was associated with the La Tempete company in Paris.
Claude Perron
Claude Perron is a French actress.
Éric Vuillard
Éric Vuillard is a French writer and film director. He has made two films, L'homme qui marche and Mateo Falcone, the latter based on a story by Prosper Merimee. He is the author of Conquistadors (2009) which won the Prix de l'inaperçu in 2010. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2017 for L'Ordre du jour.
Monique Pinçon-Charlot
Monique Pinçon-Charlot is a French sociologist, research director at CNRS until 2007, year of her retiring, attached to the Research Institute on Contemporary Societies/ l'Institut de recherche sur les sociétés contemporaines (IRESCO).