List of Famous people born in France

Alain Krivine is a French Trotskyist leader. He is a member of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR), which is the French section of the reunified Fourth International. He was a member of the LCR's political bureau until March 2006, when he resigned from that committee. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

Louis d'Aubusson de la Feuillade, duc de Roannais was a French military officer and courtier who fought in the Nine Years War and the War of the Spanish Succession.

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie, 7th duc de Broglie was a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. This concept is known as the de Broglie hypothesis, an example of wave–particle duality, and forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics.

Alexandrine-Jeanne Le Normant d'Étiolles was the only daughter of Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's celebrated maîtresse-en-titre. She was born during the "Scenes of Metz", in which the public was scandalised to learn of the adultery of her stepfather-to-be, Louis XV of France.

Henri Georges Boulay de la Meurthe, 2nd Count Boulay de La Meurthe was the only person to ever have the title of Vice-President of France.

Patrick Vian is a French musician. He played progressive punk/rock music in the late 1960s with the band Red Noise, which recorded one album. In the 1970s, he composed music for a film and released one solo album, Bruits et Temps Analogues, in 1976.

Tariq Abdul-Wahad is a French basketball coach and former player. As Olivier Saint-Jean, he played college basketball at Michigan and San Jose State. In 1997, the Sacramento Kings selected Saint-Jean in the first round of the NBA draft as the 11th overall pick, and Saint-Jean converted to Islam and changed his name to Tariq Abdul-Wahad. From 1997 to 2003, Abdul-Wahad played in the NBA for the Kings, Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets, and Dallas Mavericks. He was the first player to be raised in France and play in the NBA.

Michel Sénéchal was a French tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian character roles in a repertory ranging from Baroque to contemporary works.

Richard Lioger is a French politician representing La République En Marche! He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Moselle.

Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer. As the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death, he focused on organ music, including six organ symphonies and a Messe solennelle for choir and two organs. He toured Europe and the United States as a concert organist. His students included Nadia Boulanger and Maurice Duruflé.