List of Famous people born in France
Maéva Clemaron
Maéva Jocelyne Clemaron is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Everton in the FA Women's Super League. She has previously played in France with AS Saint-Étienne and FC Fleury 91.
Jean Montalat
Jean Montalat was a French politician. During the Second World War, he was drafted into and subsequently joined the Alliance network of the French Resistance, escaping to Algeria in 1943 to join the Free French forces. He represented the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in the National Assembly from 1951 to 1971 and was the mayor of Tulle from 1959 to 1971.
Odile Decq
Odile Decq is a French architect, urban planner and academic. She is the founder of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq and the architecture school, Confluence Institute. Decq is known for her unique, self-described goth appearance and style.
Marie Jaëll
Marie Jaëll was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart, and was the first pianist to perform all the piano sonatas of Beethoven in Paris. She did scientific studies of hand techniques in piano playing and attempted to replace traditional drilling with systematic piano methods. Her students included Albert Schweitzer, who studied with her while also studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor in 1898-99. She died in Paris.
Jean-Antoine Nollet
Jean-Antoine Nollet was a French clergyman and physicist who did a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis. As a priest, he was also known as Abbé Nollet.
Didier Quillot
Didier Quillot is a French businessman, and a former Chief Executive of Orange France, and since 2016 the Chief Executive of France's Ligue de Football Professionnel.
Jean-Claude Darcheville
Jean-Claude Jacques Ducan Darcheville is a French Guianese former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for various clubs in France, England, Scotland, and Greece. He represented French Guiana at the 2012 Caribbean Cup.
Stéphane Antiga
Stéphane Antiga is a former French volleyball player, member of the France men's national volleyball team in 1998–2010, participant of the Olympic Games, bronze medalist of the 2002 World Championship, silver medalist of the European Championship and 2006 World League, seven–time French Champion, five–time Polish Champion, two–time Spanish Champion, current head coach of Polish club DevelopRes SkyRes Rzeszów.
Alexandre Millerand
Alexandre Millerand was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 20 January to 23 September 1920 and President of France from 23 September 1920 to 11 June 1924. His participation in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the start of the 20th century, alongside the Marquis de Galliffet who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, sparked a debate in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and in the Second International about the participation of socialists in bourgeois governments.
Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff.