List of Famous people born in France
Amélie de Montchalin
Amélie de Montchalin is a French politician of La République En Marche!. She is the Minister for Transformation and Public Service, having served in this role since July 2020. She was elected as a member of the National Assembly in 2017, and represented the sixth constituency of the Essonne department until her appointment as minister. From 2017 to 2018 she was the whip of La République En Marche! in the finance committee of the National Assembly. She was Secretary of State for European Affairs, from 27 March 2019 until her 2020 promotion.
Isabelle Carré
Isabelle Carré is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 70 films since 1989. She won a César Award for Best Actress for her role in Se souvenir des belles choses (2001), and has been nominated a further six times for Beau fixe (1992), Le Hussard sur le toit (1995), La Femme défendue (1997), Les Sentiments (2003), Entre ses mains (2005) and Anna M. (2007).
Florence Foresti
Florence Foresti is a French comedian and actress.
Laurent Baffie
Laurent Baffie is a French author, short film director and humorist.
Albert Spaggiari
Albert Spaggiari, nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France, in 1976.
Christian Jacob
Christian Jacob is a French politician of The Republicans (LR) who has been serving as the party's chairman since 2019. Over the course of his career, he held several cabinet positions, including as the Minister of French Civil Service in Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France.
MHD
Mohamed Sylla, better known by his stage name MHD, is a French rapper from Paris, who is known for blending trap music with music of West Africa; a genre he coined as "Afro Trap". He was previously part of the rap collective 1.9 Réseaux.
Charles Pasqua
Charles Pasqua was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-Lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie Française.
Christophe Beaugrand-Gerin
Christophe Beaugrand is a French television presenter and journalist.