List of Famous people born in France
Christophe Miossec
Christophe Miossec is a French singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.
Valériane Ayayi
Valériane Vukosavljević is a French professional basketball player for USK Praha. She previously played for the San Antonio Stars of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Claude Evrard
Claude Evrard was a French actor.
Brigitte Barèges
Brigitte Barèges is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Tarn-et-Garonne department, The Republicans.
Nicolas Roche
Nicolas Roche is an Irish professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team DSM. He has twice been national champion and has twice finished in the top ten of the Vuelta a España, and won stages in 2013 and 2015. He represented Ireland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the road race. He has competed for Ireland 7 times at the road world championships.
Jacques Balmat
Jacques Balmat, called Balmat du Mont Blanc (1762–1834) was a mountaineer, a Savoyard mountain guide, born in the Chamonix valley in Savoy, at this time part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Serdar Gürler
Serdar Gürler is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a right winger or forward for Antalyaspor.
Hércules Florence
Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence was a Monegasque-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre, using the matrix negative/positive, still in use. According to Kossoy, who examined Florence's notes, he referred to his process, in French, as photographie in 1834, at least four years before John Herschel coined the English word photography.
Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel was a French-born Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter. Her film Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
Prince Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry was the third child and younger son of the Count of Artois and his wife, Maria Theresa of Savoy. The Duke of Berry was assassinated at the Paris Opera in 1820 by Louis Pierre Louvel, an anti-royal Bonapartist. In June 1832, two years after the overthrow of his father, Charles X, his widow, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, led a royalist insurrection in the Vendée in a failed attempt to restore their son, the Comte de Chambord, to the French throne.