List of Famous people born in France
Vincent Planté
Vincent Planté is a football goalkeeper coach, and reserve goalkeeper for Chambly.
Léon de Poncins
Viscount Léon de Poncins was a French aristocrat and a traditional Catholic journalist and essayist. He authored numerous books and articles advancing a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory.
Thomas Deruda
Thomas Deruda is a French footballer who played as a midfielder in Ligue 1 for Olympique de Marseille and in Ligue 2 for FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin, Amiens SC, Montpellier HSC, AC Ajaccio and AC Arles-Avignon.
Joseph Bonnel
Joseph Bonnel was a French football midfielder. He was part of France in the FIFA World Cup 1966. He scored 3 goals during the 1966 season.
Grégory Anquetil
Grégory Anquetil is a former French team handball player. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the French team placed 4th, and also at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. After his retirement from the sport, he provides commentary for handball matches for Canal plus.
Miquel Roca
Miquel Roca i Junyent is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Democratic Convergence of Catalonia. He is one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain.
Céleste Albaret
Céleste Albaret was a country girl who moved to Paris in 1913 when she married the taxi driver Odilon Albaret; she is best known for being the writer and essayist Marcel Proust's housekeeper and secretary. Lonely and bored in the capital, and at her husband's suggestion, Albaret began to run errands for Proust, who was her husband's most regular client. Before very long she became his secretary and housekeeper. During the final decade of Proust's life, when his health declined and he became progressively more withdrawn, even while working with continuing intensity on his writing, she became his nurse and "the writer’s most trusted conduit to the world beyond his reclusive, cork-lined bedroom".
Michel Ocelot
Michel Ocelot is a French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year. In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb.
Adrien Duvillard
Adrien Duvillard is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1998 Winter Olympics.
Renaud Dutreil
Renaud Dutreil is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Sciences, École Normale Supérieure and École Nationale d'Administration in Paris. He was Lauréat du Concours Général de Philosophie in 1978.