List of Famous people born in France

Adrien Giraud was a French politician who was a member of the Senate of France, representing the island of Mayotte. He was a member of the Centrist Union.

Ilias Hassani is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Beroe Stara Zagora in the Bulgarian First League.

Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France, was the Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Henry VII.

Solange Fasquelle was a French writer. She is the author of more than 20 novels.

Jennifer de Temmerman is a French politician who has been a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, where she represents the 15th constituency of the Nord.

Steve Chainel is a French racing cyclist for French amateur team Chazal–Canyon. Chainel has previously competed for the Auber 93, Bbox Bouygues Telecom FDJ, Ag2r–La Mondiale and Cofidis professional teams.

Pierre Pinoncelli is a performance artist most noted for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in Nîmes on 25 August 1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer. He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time; robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun; and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry. During the French Revolution he served as the Minister of the Marine, and was involved in the reform of the French educational system, helping to found the École Polytechnique.

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is a French writer.

Louis Pouzin is a French computer scientist. He designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES.