List of Famous people born in France

Pauline Vasseur, who performs under the mononym Pauline, is a French composer, songwriter and singer.

Christine Béranger-Goitschel is a former French alpine skier. She is the elder sister of fellow champion skier Marielle Goitschel and the aunt of the former speed skier Philippe Goitschel. Her sister Patricia was a national junior champion in the slalom in 1964.

Catherine Cusset is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel, The Story of Jane, and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.

Stéphane Dalmat is a French former footballer who played as a midfielder. Dalmat was a very versatile player who usually occupied a variety of positions on the midfield. His good ball control and dribbling ability has often seen managers use him wide on the left of midfield, or in the centre as an attacking midfielder. Despite being left footed, he was comfortable with either foot.

Louise Ebrel was a Breton singer whose parents Eugénie Goadec and Job Ebrel were themselves singers. Her repertoire was composed of traditional Breton songs, either for dancing or for listening (gwerz).

Sarah Moon HonFRPS is a French photographer. Initially a model, she turned to fashion photography in the 1970s. Since 1985, she has concentrated on gallery and film work.

Dominique Zardi was a French actor. He acted in more than 200 feature films, including Fantômas with Louis De Funès and Jean Marais. He died of cancer at the age of 79. He was the uncle of the actress and film director Agnès Jaoui.

Lucien Clergue was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013.

Louise Carletti (1922–2002) was a French film actress. She was married to the director Raoul André. As a young actress, Carletti made a minor appearance in The Sentinel (1942) with Frederic Forrest and Barbara Stanwyck as a murder victim. When performing in the 1956 adaptation of Ford Madox Ford 's The Day of the Jackal (1959), she performed the part of a prostitute, but it was not until the 1989 film based on Amaury Lévy's The Wife's Revenge (1989) that she performed the role as a homemaker.