List of Famous people born in France
Frédéric Taddeï
Frédéric Taddeï is a French journalist and television and radio host. Before his current role as the host of cultural talk show Ce soir on public television station France 3, he hosted from 1997 to 2006 the late night program Paris Dernière broadcast on Paris Première. In September 2018 he started his Interdit d'interdire broadcast on RT TV.
Jacques Doriot
Jacques Doriot was a French politician prior to and during World War II.
Haris Belkebla
Haris Belkebla is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Brest, and the Algeria national football team.
Eliphas Levi
Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French sage, poet, and author of more than twenty books about magic, Cabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism. Considered the greatest occultist of the nineteenth century, he followed the ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church until, with a particularly great struggle, at the age of 26, he quit the priestly path. Only much later in his life, at the age of 40, did he attain the knowledge of the occult, also becoming a ceremonial magician.
Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin was a French novelist, poet and journalist.
Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit is a French actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1957 to 2001.
Manon Houette
Manon Houette is a French handball player for Metz Handball and the French national team.
Marcel Mouloudji
Marcel André Mouloudji was a French singer and actor who was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He sang songs written by Boris Vian and Jacques Prévert.
Charles Hernu
Charles Hernu was a French socialist politician. He served as Minister of Defence from 1981 to 1985, until forced to resign over the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
Jenny Longuet
Jenny Caroline "Jennychen" Marx Longuet was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx. Briefly a political journalist writing under the pen name "J. Williams", Longuet taught language classes and had a family of five sons and a daughter before her own death due to cancer at the age of 38.