List of Famous people born in France
Guy Teissier
Guy Teissier is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the sixth constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department since 1993, previously briefly holding the position in 1988. He has been a member of The Republicans since the party was established in 2015. He served as Mayor of the Fifth Sector of Marseille from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1995 until 2014. The Government of Azerbaijan has blacklisted Teissier who visited Artsakh in 2011 without Baku's permission.
Jérémy Stinat
Jérémy Stinat is a French professional footballer who played for several years in Ligue 2.
Patrick Boucheron
Patrick Boucheron is a French historian. He previously taught medieval history at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris. He is a professor of history at the Collège de France. He is the author of 12 books and or the editor of 5 books. His 2017 book, Histoire mondiale de la France, compiled work by 122 historians and became an unexpected bestseller, with more than 110 000 copies sold. From 2017 to 2020, he hosted Dates in World History, a TV program of 10 episodes which explored different important dates in world history.
François Ravaillac
François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610.
Esther Garrel
Esther Garrel is a French actress. She is most known for her roles in 17 Girls (2011), Jealousy (2013), Call Me by Your Name (2017), and Thirst Street (2017).
Clio Goldsmith
Clio Goldsmith is a French former actress, appearing mostly as a femme fatale in some films of the early 1980s. She is a member of the prominent Goldsmith family through her father ecologist Edward Goldsmith. Goldsmith was married to British travel writer Mark Shand, the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
Alice Renavand
Alice Renavand is a French ballet dancer. After joining the Paris Opera Ballet in 1997, she became a principal in 2012 and a star in December 2013. Shortly afterwards, she was described as having "la beauté du diable" as Lizzie in Fall River Legend.
Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber was a French journalist and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1965 to 1967, representing Seine. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, a center-right political party. He died on April 11, 2018 in Paris on his 100th birthday.
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé is a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–85).
Laure Lepailleur
Laure Maud Yvette Lepailleur is a French football player who currently plays for French club Paris Saint-Germain of the Division 1 Féminine. Lepailleur primarily plays as a midfielder, but can also play in the defending position. She is a member of the France women's national football team making her first major tournament appearance with her nation at UEFA Women's Euro 2009.