List of Famous people born in France

Michel Albert Jean Joseph Ybarnégaray was a French Basque politician and founder of the International Federation of Basque Pelota.

Alexia Portal is a French actress best known for her role as Béatrice Romand's son's girlfriend in the 1998 film Autumn Tale.

Luc Jalabert was a French rejoneador. He was the director of the Arles Amphitheatre from 1999 to 2015, and a champion of bullfighting.

Jean Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance.

Régine Pernoud was a French historian and archivist.

Thomas Mangani is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Angers SCO.

François Mansart was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".

Catherine Ribeiro, born in Lyon in 1941, is a French singer. Ribeiro is an experimental folk and avant garde performer. With her band Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes she released several albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Catherine Ribeiro & 2Bis 1969, No.2 in 1970, Paix in 1972 and has continued to perform and release records ever since. Among her biggest fans is the French mathematician Cédric Villani.

Myriam Bru is a French retired actress and the wife of German actor Horst Buchholz, to whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 2003. She appeared in 16 films between 1952 and her marriage in 1958, when she retired from acting to raise her two children, one of whom is German actor Christopher Buchholz.

Louis Joblot was a French naturalist. He was born in Bar-le-Duc and died, aged 57, in Paris.