List of Famous people born in France

Benoît Simian is a French 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 Gironde.

Mickaël Debève is a former French footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently assistant manager of Ligue 2 side RC Lens.

Noël-Noël was a French actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 45 films between 1931 and 1966.

Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon, was a French nobleman and Admiral of France, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend of—and advisor to—the French king, Charles IX.

Frank Thomas, born Franc Georges Fernand Combès, was a French songwriter. Over the course of his career, he wrote songs for Claude François, Sylvie Vartan, Michel Polnareff, Gilbert Bécaud, Joe Dassin and Gérard Berliner.

Odile Lesage is a retired French heptathlete.

Léon Marchand is a French swimmer. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Serge Rousseau was a French film and television actor and agent. He was a close friend of François Truffaut. He played the husband of murdered Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black and the unknown man who declares his love for Claude Jade at the end of Stolen Kisses. He married Marie Dubois in 1961 and they remained together until his death by cancer at the age of 77. They had a daughter, actress Dominique Rousseau.

Madeleine Pelletier was a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist.

Claude Estier was a French politician and journalist. He was deputy of Paris from 1967 to 1968 and again from 1981 to 1986, then senator from 1986 to 2004 and was president of the socialist group in the senate from 1988 to 2004.