List of Famous people born in France
Marley Aké
Marley Aké is a French professional footballer who plays as winger for Italian club Juventus U23.
Ophélie David
Ophélie David is a French freestyle skier specializing in ski cross, an event in which she has won a world championship and four consecutive Winter X Games, as well as having previously been ranked number one in the world in.
Louis Bernard Bonjean
Louis Bernard Bonjean was a French jurist who was a Senator under Napoleon III. He was a prolific author. During the Paris Commune he was taken prisoner and later shot.
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne, commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Originally considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism. He is thought to be the first economist to have recognized the law of diminishing marginal returns in agriculture.
Marie-Claire Restoux
Marie-Claire Restoux is a French judoka, world champion and olympic champion. She won a gold medal in the half lightweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Rémy Riou
Rémy Riou is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Stade Malherbe Caen. He was a French youth international having earned four caps with the country's U21 team.
Laura de Noves
Laura de Noves (1310–1348) was the wife of Count Hugues de Sade.
Fababy
Fabrice Ayékoué, better known by his stage name Fababy, is a French rapper, singer and songwriter.
Augustin Robespierre
Augustin Bon Joseph de Robespierre was the younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre. His political views were similar to his brother's. During the Battle of Toulon (1793), he became a supporter of Napoleon, nicknamed "Robespierre on horse". When his brother was arrested on 9 Thermidor, Robespierre volunteered to be arrested as well, and he was executed by guillotine like Maximilien and 20 other counter-revolutionaries.
Fabrice Bellard
Fabrice Bellard is a French computer programmer known for writing FFmpeg, QEMU, and the Tiny C Compiler. He developed Bellard's formula for calculating single digits of pi. In 2012, Bellard co-founded Amarisoft, a telecommunications company, with Franck Spinelli.