List of Famous people born in France

Grégoire is a French singer-songwriter and composer. He has released three albums to date and has a number of successful singles in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Maxime Le Marchand is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Premier League club Fulham.

Xavier Thévenard is a French elite athlete who specialises in trail and mountain running. He was born on March 6, 1988 in Nantua, France. He won the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in 2013, 2015 and 2018.

Didier Lombard is a French businessman. Between February 2005 and March 2010 he was chairman and CEO of France Télécom. In 2010 he resigned as CEO, retaining the chairmanship. Since 2012, he has been under indictment for criminal acts of "moral harassment" for abusive human resource policies during his leadership at France Télécom alleged to have caused a number of suicides, leading to a criminal trial in May 2019.

William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire,, styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was a British peer, courtier, nobleman, and Whig politician. Known as the "Bachelor Duke", he was Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1827 and 1828 and again between 1830 and 1834. The Cavendish banana is named after him.

Patrick de Saint-Exupéry is the son of Count Jacques de Saint-Exupéry and the Countess de Saint-Exupéry, born as Martine d'Anglejan. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the aviator and writer, was the cousin of his grandfather. Patrick started his career in journalism at age 19 after winning a young reporters award.

Charles Dumont, born in 1929 in Cahors (Lot), is a French singer and composer.

Dan-Axel Zagadou is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.

Naïm Sliti is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Al-Ettifaq and the Tunisia national team.

Nicolas Appert was the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of canning", was a confectioner. Appert described his invention as a way "of conserving all kinds of food substances in containers".