List of Famous people born in France
Sandrine Soubeyrand
Sandrine Soubeyrand is a French former footballer and current coach of France women's national under-17 football team. She played as a midfielder for France national team, Félines Saint-Cyr, Caluire and Juvisy.
Justine Dupont
Justine Dupont is a French professional surfer.
Jean Rouaud
Jean Rouaud is a French author, who was born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel Fields of Glory won the Prix Goncourt. First believed to be the first book in a trilogy, Fields of Glory turned out to be the first book in a series of five books on the family history of the author.
Henry-Louis de La Grange
Henry-Louis de La Grange was a French musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler.
Stéphane Brosse
Stéphane Brosse was a French ski mountaineer.
Claude Dauphin
Claude Dauphin was a French billionaire businessman and executive chairman of Trafigura Beheer BV, a company specialising in commodity trading. In addition to being one of the company's founding partners, Dauphin had previously served as Trafigura's chairman and CEO. In March 2013 his net wealth was estimated at $1 billion by Forbes. Dauphin died from cancer in a hospital in Barrancabermeja at the age of 64 after a two-year struggle with lung cancer.
Jean-François Bazin
Jean-François Bazin was a French politician, journalist, and writer.
Ernest Renan
Joseph Ernest Renan was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar and critic. He wrote influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of early Christianity, and espoused popular political theories especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the now-discredited Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate.
Jean-Claude Étienne
Jean-Claude Étienne was a French politician, and a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Marne department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.
Joseph-René Bellot
Joseph-René Bellot was a French naval officer and Arctic explorer.