List of Famous people born in France

Alfred Marie-Joseph Heurtaux was a French World War I fighter ace credited with 21 victories. Later in his life, he joined the French Resistance during World War II, and survived imprisonment in Buchenwald death camp to become a brigadier general in the post war Armée de l'Air.

Patrick Braoudé is a French actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.

Max Aub Mohrenwitz was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta, with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.

Roland Glavany was a French army general.

Pierre Gringore [pjɛːʁ ɡʁɛ̃ˈɡɔʁ] was a popular French poet and playwright.

Philippe Vercruysse is a French former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Jeanne Boitel was a French film actress. She played a role in the Resistance during World War II, using the surname of Mozart. She met Jacques Jaujard during her resistance activities in the war, and married him.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as d'Urville Island in New Zealand.

Souleymane M'baye is a professional boxer and is the former WBA super-lightweight champion. He won the vacated title by a fourth technical knockout on September 2, 2006 against Raul Horacio Balbi. His current record is 39 wins, four losses and a draw, with 21 wins coming by way of knockout. His defeats came against former WBA super-lightweight champion Vivian Harris, former WBA light-welterweight champion Gavin Rees, and Herman Ngoudjo. On May 28, M'baye defeated Antonin Décarie by unanimous decision to capture the WBA Interim welterweight championship.

Michel Houel was a French politician. He was the mayor of Crécy-la-Chapelle from 2001 until 2015, and represented the Seine-et-Marne department in the Senate of France from 2004 until his death in 2016. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.