List of Famous people born in France

Issa Cissokho is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a right back. He is the older brother of former Aston Villa and French international defender Aly Cissokho.

Yacine Bammou is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Stade Malherbe Caen and the Morocco national team.

IAM is a French hip hop band from Marseille, formed in 1989, and composed of Akhenaton, Shurik'n, Khéops, Imhotep, and Kephren. 'IAM' has several meanings, including 'Invasion Arrivée de Mars'. Another meaning is Imperial Asiatic Man, while AKH often refers to L'homme Impérial Asiatique.

René Clément was a French film director and screenwriter.

Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French Naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.

Jérémie Beyou is a French professional Offshore sailor born on 27th June 1976 in Landivisiau (Finistère). He is a member of C N Lorient Sailing Club.

Michel Magne was a French film and experimental music composer. He was nominated in 1962 for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for adapting the Jackie Gleason score to film Gigot. He also scored Barbarella and a series of OSS 117 films.

Prince Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza is a member of the Imperial House of Brazil. According to the disputed claims of the Vassouras branch of the family, he is first in the line of succession to the defunct Brazilian throne, and as such is the current claimant of the title of Prince Imperial of Brazil. Bertrand is also related to the House of Braganza and the House of Orléans, both by his father's lineage, and to the House of Wittelsbach by his mother's lineage.

Catherine Trautmann is a French politician for the French Socialist Party. She served as Minister of Culture of France in the Lionel Jospin cabinet 1997–2000 and was a Member of the European Parliament 1989–1997 and 2004–2014.

Jacques Cœur was a French government official and state-sponsored merchant whose personal fortune became legendary and led to his eventual disgrace. He initiated regular trade routes between France and the Levant. His memory retains iconic status in Bourges, where he built a palatial house that is preserved to this day.