List of Famous people born in France

Catherine Monvoisin, or Montvoisin, née Deshayes, known as "La Voisin", was a French fortune teller, commissioned poisoner, and professional provider of alleged sorcery. She was the head of a network of fortune tellers in Paris providing poison, aphrodisiacs, abortion, purported magical services and the arranging of black masses, with clients among the aristocracy, and became the central figure in the famous affaire des poisons. Her purported organization of commissioned black magic and poison murder was suspected to have killed 1,000 people, but it is believed that upwards of 2,500 people might have been murdered.

Timothey N'Guessan is a French handball player for FC Barcelona Lassa and for the French national team.

Sébastien Jacques André Frey is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His club career began in France with Cannes in 1997, but later went on to spend most of his career in the Italian Serie A, playing for Inter Milan, Verona, Parma, Fiorentina, and Genoa; he ended his career in 2015, after two seasons with Turkish side Bursaspor. At international level, he represented the France national football team on two occasions between 2007 and 2008 and was an unused member of the squad that took part at UEFA Euro 2008.

Jacques Myard is a former member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Yvelines department, and is a member of The Republicans.

Jacques Thébault was a French actor. He has dubbed for or been the voice artist for:

• Robert Conrad
• Steve McQueen
• Patrick McGoohan
• Bill Cosby
• Roy Scheider
• Lucky Luke
• Jeremy Brett, from Sherlock Holmes for Granada
• One of the voice overs in Amélie.

Dieudonné de Gozon was the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes from 1346 to 1353. He was born to a noble family in Languedoc, France. He carried the nickname Extinctor Draconis which means "The Dragon Slayer" in Latin.

Yvonne Furneaux is a French film actress.

Camille Thomas is a Franco-Belgian cellist.

Eddy Louiss was a French jazz musician.

Joseph Marie Charles dit Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.