List of Famous people born in France

Pierre Schoendoerffer was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007.

Thierry Frémaux is the director of the Institut Lumière, of the Lumière Film Festival and of the Cannes Film Festival.

Lucie Décosse is a retired female French judoka.

Gabriel Antoine Obertan is a French professional footballer who plays primarily as a winger, but can also play in attacking midfield and as a striker. He is currently playing for Turkish club BB Erzurumspor.

Professor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton was a Russian and Soviet engineer of Ukrainian descent who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kyiv. Paton was a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1953). He was the father of Borys Paton.

Édouard Leclerc was a French businessman and entrepreneur who founded the French supermarket chain E.Leclerc in 1948. From his first store, Leclerc's chain has multiplied into more than 550 locations in France and 114 stores outside the country, as of 2012.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France.

Ibrahima Traoré is a professional footballer who plays as a left winger for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach. Born in France, he represents Guinea at international level.

Jean-François Adam was a French actor and director.

Michel Wieviorka is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change.