List of Famous people born in France

Gaël Faure is a French singer-songwriter. He has toured internationally and has released two albums and several singles.

Cédric Sorhaindo is a French handball player for FC Barcelona Lassa and the French national team.

Carlo Maria Buonaparte or Charles-Marie Bonaparte was a Corsican lawyer and diplomat of Italian origin, best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Claude Bourgelat was a French veterinary surgeon. He was a founder of scientifically informed veterinary medicine, and he created one of the earliest schools for training professional veterinarians.

Emmanuelle Mignon served as cabinet secretary for Nicolas Sarkozy.

Charles Messier was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and faint star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects. The purpose of the catalogue was to help astronomical observers distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky.

Louis Renault was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and a pioneer of the automobile industry.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French socialist, politician, philosopher, economist and the founder of mutualist philosophy. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist, using that term and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist. Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as "the synthesis of communism and property". Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.

Xavier Dor was a French embryologist, well known for his activism against abortions.

Mourad Benchellali is a French citizen, who was captured by Pakistanis forces and detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 161.