List of Famous people born in France

Sara Giraudeau is a French actress.

Jean-Christophe Lagarde is a French politician serving as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) since 2014. He succeeded Jean-Louis Borloo after a short interim by Yves Jégo. Lagarde has been the member of the National Assembly for the fifth constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis since 2002.

Presnel Kimpembe is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. He was part of the France squad that won the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Neal Maupay is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. He came to prominence in his homeland with Nice, Saint-Étienne and Brest and was a France youth international. Maupay is also adept as an attacking midfielder or winger.

Jules Olivier Koundé is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Sevilla FC.

François Claude Pierre René Baroin is a French lawyer and politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as Finance Minister from 2011 to 2012, following a stint as Minister of the Budget in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. He was a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and is currently the mayor of Troyes.

William I, usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. He was a descendant of Rollo and was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward. His hold was secure on Normandy by 1060, following a long struggle to establish his throne, and he launched the Norman conquest of England six years later. The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands, and by difficulties with his eldest son, Robert Curthose.

Seko Mohamed Fofana is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club RC Lens.

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist, actor and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France and briefly disputed Queen of France in 1830. She was the only child of her parents to reach adulthood. In 1799 she married her cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the eldest son of Charles, Count of Artois.