List of Famous people born in France

Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler was a French politician. She served on the National Assembly representing Doubs's 2nd constituency as a member of the Socialist Party.

Gwladys Patience Épangue is a French taekwondo athlete. Representing France at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in Madrid, she won the silver medal in the welterweight division, losing to Hwang Kyung-Seon from South Korea in the final. At the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships in Beijing, she won a silver medal, losing to Hwang in the final again.

Gaëlle Skrela is a retired French basketball player for Basket Lattes and the French national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship. In 2016 she represented France at the 2016 Summer Olympics where her team lost 67-86 to the United States. She retired from basketball soon after the end of the Olympic games.

Sacha Houlié is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Vienne.

Alma Jodorowsky is a French actress, fashion model and singer.

Wylan Jean-Claude Cyprien is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Parma, on loan from Nice.

Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, and translated the work of several important Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, and was responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, and arranged for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.

Sarah-Léonie Cysique is a French judoka from Guadeloupe. She won the silver medal in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the gold medal in the mixed team event.

Fabienne Keller is a French politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was the mayor (UDF) of Strasbourg, France, from March 2001 to March 2008.

Ellen Andrée was a French model for Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other impressionists, in the 1870s.