List of Famous people born in France

François "Franck" Pervis is a French track cyclist. He is a former junior world champion in the team sprint and twice European under 23 champion, as well as a seven-time world champion and a holder of two world records. In 2014 he became the first track cyclist to win three individual world titles at one championship, in the keirin, 1 km and sprint.

Marc Augé is a French anthropologist.

Jacques de Vaucanson was a French inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata. He also was the first person to design an automatic loom and built the first all-metal lathe.

Alexis Claude-Maurice is a French professional footballer who plays as forward for Ligue 1 club Nice.

Jacques Benveniste was a French immunologist born in Paris. In 1979, he published a well-known paper on the structure of platelet-activating factor and its relationship with histamine. He was head of allergy and inflammation immunology at the French biomedical research agency INSERM.

Valérie Rabault is a French engineer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2012 elections, representing Tarn-et-Garonne.

Bruno Zaremba was a French professional footballer who played for Valenciennes, Metz, Dunkerque and Arras, as a striker.

Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello, Prince of Siewierz, was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of Napoleon's most daring and talented generals, and is regarded by many as one of history's greatest military commanders. Napoleon once commented on Lannes: "I found him a pygmy and left him a giant". A personal friend of the emperor, he was allowed to address him with the familiar tu, as opposed to the formal vous.

Charles Miossec was a French politician.

Guy Hubert Georges Lacombe is a French former professional footballer and manager.