List of Famous people born in France
Henri Tincq
Henri Tincq was a French journalist and Vatican expert.
Mr. Brainwash
Thierry Guetta, best known by his moniker Mr. Brainwash, is a French-born, Los Angeles-based street artist. According to the 2010 Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Guetta was a proprietor of a used clothing store, and amateur videographer who was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader, and who filmed street artists through the 2000s and became an artist in his own right in a matter of weeks after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy.
Philip I of France
Philip I, called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low it reached in the reign of his father and he added to the royal demesne the Vexin and Bourges.
Jajang C. Noer
Lidia Djunita Pamontjak or better known as Jajang C. Noer is a France-born Indonesian actress and film producer of Minangkabau descent. She is also the only daughter of Indonesian national independence movement figure, Nazir Datuk Pamoentjak.
Michel Subor
Michel Subor (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl sybɔʁ], born Mischa Subotzki, is a French actor who gained initial fame with the starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, Le Petit Soldat, but the French government banned it until 1963 because of its political content, touching on terrorism during the undeclared Algerian War. He acted in a couple of American films in the late 1960s like as Claude Jade's husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz. In 1999, he once again played Forestier in Beau Travail, a highly praised variation of Billy Budd, directed by Claire Denis. He continued to work with her.
Michel Portal
Michel Portal is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz".
Hervin Ongenda
Hervin Ongenda is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Botoșani.
Marc Augier
Marc Augier, better known by the nom de plume Saint-Loup, was a French anti-capitalist, later turned into fascist, politician, writer and mountaineer.
Louis Lareng
Louis Lareng was a French politician and professor of medicine specializing in anesthesia resuscitation.
Baptiste Valette
Baptiste Valette is a French professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for AS Nancy.