List of Famous people born in France

Violette Verdy was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. From 1958 to 1977 she was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet where she performed in the world premieres of several works created specifically for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was Distinguished Professor of Music (Ballet) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, in Bloomington, and the recipient of two medals from the French government.

Barthélemy Thimonnier was a French inventor, who is attributed with the invention of the first sewing machine that replicated sewing by hand.

Francis Hardy was a French politician.

François Achille Bazaine was an officer of the French army. Rising from the ranks, during four decades of distinguished service under Louis-Philippe and then Napoleon III, he held every rank in the army from Fusilier to Marshal of France. From 1863 he was a Marshal of France, and it was in this role that he surrendered the last organized French army to Prussia during the Franco-Prussian war, during the siege of Metz.

Napoléon-Louis Bonaparte was King of Holland for less than two weeks in July 1810 as Louis II. He was a son of King Louis I and Queen Hortense. His father was the younger brother of Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, and ruled Holland from 1806 to 1810. His mother was the daughter of Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoléon's first wife. His younger brother, Louis-Napoléon, became Emperor of the French as Napoléon III.

Thérèse Humbert (1856–1918) was a French female fraudster, who pretended to be an heir of an imaginary American millionaire Robert Crawford.

Jean-Paul Baréty was a French lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1994 to 1997, representing Alpes-Maritimes.

Béatrice "Betty" Bonifassi is a Canadian vocalist based in Montreal. She has a deep, contralto singing voice, sometimes referred to as "masculine", which has been compared to that of Shirley Bassey. Bonifassi has performed music of many styles in both English and French—from jazz, to traditional music, to blues, to electronica. In 2003 she gained international exposure when she provided the singing voices for the title characters of the animated film The Triplets of Belleville . She has collaborated with composer and saxophonist, François D'Amours and has performed and toured with musician Maxime Morin. Bonifassi appeared as a guest vocalist on Deweare's album High Class Trauma (2006), and she is one half of the electronic music duo Beast.

François Spirito, born Lydio Spirito was an Italian-born French gangster. He was one of the leaders of the French Connection, and inspired the film Borsalino which featured Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Mewen Tomac is a French swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 and 200 metre backstroke event at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships, in Budapest, Hungary and in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.