List of Famous people born in France

Louis Leplée was a French nightclub owner who discovered the French singer Édith Piaf singing on a Paris street corner in 1935. Leplée starred Piaf at the popular Parisian nightspot Le Gerny's as "La Môme Piaf".

Jacques Teyssier was a French and German citizen, and a German LGBT rights activist.

Marie-Louise Giraud was a women's rights activist who became one of the last women to be guillotined in France. Giraud was a convicted abortionist in 1940s Nazi occupied France. She was executed on July 30, 1943, for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area. Her story was dramatized in the 1988 film Story of Women directed by Claude Chabrol.

Alpha Kaba is a French professional basketball player for Nanterre 92 of the LNB Pro A.

Lisa Angell is a French singer who represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "N'oubliez pas".

Juhann Mathieu Begarin is a French professional basketball player of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Régis Jauffret is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 2005, for Asiles de fous.

Ginette Leclerc was a French film actress. She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1932 and 1978. Her last TV appearance was in 1981. She was born Geneviève Lucie Menut in Paris, France and died in Paris. She was married to the actor Lucien Gallas.

Max Guazzini is a French entrepreneur and until June 2011, president of the Stade Français rugby union club of Paris, who compete in the top division of rugby union in France, the Top 14. Since arriving at Stade Français in the early 1990s, the club rose from the lower divisions of competition to become one of the most successful French rugby teams of the modern era.

Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien is a French retired Général de Brigade in the Armée de l'Air, and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and the first western European in space.