List of Famous people born in France

Armand Mestral was a French actor and singer. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1945 to 1992.

Marie Dubas was a French music-hall singer, diseuse and comedian.

Christine Gouze-Rénal was a French film and television producer. A graduate in literature and art history and former Résistance member, she became in 1956 France's first female film producer with The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful, starring Brigitte Bardot.

Bernard Ziegler is the former Airbus senior vice president for engineering. He is well known for his evangelical zeal for the application of the fly-by-wire system in the Airbuses. He is the son of the former Airbus CEO, Henri Ziegler.

Bernard Tchoullouyan was a French judoka. He won a world title in 1981 and an Olympic bronze medal in 1980. He died on 7 January 2019, at the age of 65.

Mikel Dufrenne was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism and is particularly noted for the work The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience.

Raymond Asso was a French lyricist.

Andréa Guiot was a French operatic soprano. A long-term member of the Paris opera houses, she was known internationally for leading roles especially in the French repertoire, such as Gounod's Mireille and Marguerite, Massenet's Manon and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen. She appeared as Micaëla when Carmen was first performed at the Opéra de Paris in 1959, and as Mireille in the 1000th performance of the opera at the Opéra-Comique. She performed in the world premiere of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1965. Among her many recordings, the 1964 Carmen conducted by Georges Prêtre, with Maria Callas in the title role and Nicolai Gedda as her lover, brought her lasting fame. She appeared at major opera house in France, Europe, and the Americas. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris, succeeding Janine Micheau, her own former instructor.

Alain Suguenot is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Côte-d'Or's 5th constituency from 2002 to 2017 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.