List of Famous people born in France

Raymond Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.

Jules Berry was a French actor.

Sylvain Distin is a French former professional footballer. He is left-footed and played as a central defender, and was also capable of playing at left-back.

Madeleine Vionnet was a French fashion designer. Vionnet trained in London before returning to France to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. Although it was forced to close in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, it re-opened after the war and Vionnet became one of the leading designers in Paris between the Wars (1919-1939). Vionnet was forced to close her house in 1939 and retired in 1940.

Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza was a French-Brazilian memoirist and consort of the Orléanist pretender, Henri, Count of Paris.

Kévin N'Doram is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or defender for Ligue 1 club FC Metz. He is the son of the Chadian retired footballer Japhet N'Doram.

Jacques Charpentier was a French composer and organist. He is unrelated to either of two other eminent French musicians with the same surname.

Christophe Thivrier was a French politician of working class origins who was the first Socialist mayor in France, and deputy of Allier from 1889 to 1895. At this time the industrialists of France were using dismissals and other forms of repression in an attempt to stamp out socialism, and workers were responding with strikes. Thivrier was uncompromising in his socialist principles, and was known as the "deputé en blouse" for wearing his blue worker's smock in the Assembly to the outrage of the bourgeois members.

Enak Gavaggio is a French freestyle skier. He represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Marcus Regis Coco is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Nantes.