List of Famous people born in France

Loan Chabanol is a French actress, artist, and model. She is an ambassador of L'Oréal Professionnel.

Pierre Sudreau was a French politician. His childhood correspondence with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) helped inspire the title character of the 1943 novel The Little Prince.

Michel d'Ornano was a French politician. A descendant of both Marie Walewska and Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, he began his political career as mayor of Deauville in 1962. He served as president of the General Councils of both Calvados and Basse-Normandie before going on to represent the fourth district of Calvados in the Parliament of France; in that body he sat first as an Independent Republican and later with the Union for French Democracy. He served in numerous cabinet positions under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, including as Secretary of State for Ecology, the Minister of Culture, and Minister of Industry.

Bruno Coquatrix was a French music producer, the owner and manager of the Olympia Hall in Paris from 1954 until his death in 1979.

Benoît Duteurtre is a French novelist and essayist. He is also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spends his time between Paris, New York and Normandy.

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

Christian Vincent is a French film director and screenwriter. He won the César Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Writing for his 1990 film La Discrète.

Jean-Pierre Cave was a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997, representing Tarn-et-Garonne.

Steeve Elana is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for FC Martigues and the Martinique national football team.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French military engineer and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion, though he also did important work on friction.