List of Famous people born in France

Roxane Duran is a French-Austrian actress. She appeared in the Palme d'Or-winning 2009 film The White Ribbon. She also acted in the Le moine, a 2011 French-language film directed by Dominik Moll, an adaptation of Matthew Lewis's novel The Monk.

Annette Wieviorka is a French historian. She is a specialist in the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people in the 20th century since the 1992 publication of her thesis, Deportation and genocide between memory and forgetting, defended in 1991 at the Paris Nanterre University.

Xavier Darcos is a French politician, scholar, civil servant and former Minister of Labour.

Maeva Méline is a French singer and actress.

Pierre-Yves Bournazel is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 18th constituency of Paris since 2017. He is a member of Agir, which he joined after he left The Republicans (LR). Bournazel has also held a seat on the Council of Paris since 2008.

Philippe Decouflé is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director. As a child he travelled extensively around Lebanon and Morocco before learning his skills as a teenager at the Annie Fratellini École du Cirque and the Marceau Mime School. While frequenting Parisienne nightclubs he discovered and was attracted to contemporary dance, and he eventually moved to the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine in Angers to study under choreographer Alwin Nicolais. After briefly working as a solo dancer, he formed the Découflé Company of Arts in Bagnolet in 1983, moving it to a former electrical works in the Parisienne suburb of Saint-Denis in 1995.

Jean-Marie Tjibaou was a French politician in New Caledonia and leader of the Kanak independence movement. The son of a tribal chief, Tjibaou was ordained a Catholic priest but abandoned his religious vocation for a life in political activism.

Renée Saint-Cyr was a French actress. She appeared in 66 films between 1933 and 1994. She was the mother of Georges Lautner, who also achieved fame in the film business, albeit as a director.

Mélissa Plaza is a French football player who last played for EA Guingamp of the Division 1 Féminine. She plays as a defensive midfielder. Plaza is a former women's youth international having played with the under-20 team at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and is a currently a member of the senior team making her debut in 2009. She also played with the France team at 2009 Summer Universiade Games where she netted two goals.

François Hadji-Lazaro is a French actor, musician and producer.