List of Famous people born in France

Émilie Simon is a French singer, songwriter and composer of electronic music.

Saint Medardus or St Medard was the Bishop of Noyon. He moved the seat of the diocese from Vermand to Noviomagus Veromanduorum in northern France. Medardus was one of the most honored bishops of his time, often depicted laughing, with his mouth wide open, and therefore he was invoked against toothache.

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities and for his subsequent opposition to prenatal diagnosis and abortion. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 21 January 2021.

Philibert Commerson, sometimes spelled Commerçon by contemporaries, was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769.

Libertas Schulze-Boysen, born Libertas Viktoria Haas-Heye was a German resistance fighter who was a member of the Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr, during the Third Reich.

Caroline Fiat is a French politician representing la France Insoumise. She was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the 6th constituency of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Philippe Wahl is a French business executive. Having previously been a government advisor and bank executive, in September 2013 he was appointed president and chief executive officer of La Poste, the group which includes the French postal service.

Pierre Laroque was a French senior civil servant known as the "father of social security".

Dominique Warluzel is a Swiss lawyer, television producer, and playwright. He is registered with the Geneva Bar.

François Leterrier was a French film director and actor. He entered the film industry when he was cast in Robert Bresson's film A Man Escaped. After this he went on to become a director himself.