List of Famous people born in France
André Bach
André Bach was a French general and historian.
Esparbec
Georges Pailler, known by the pen name Esparbec, was a French pornographic author.
Jean-Pierre Pujol
Jean-Pierre Pujol was a French politician and teacher.
Raymond Reisser
Raymond Reisser was a French professional racing cyclist. He rode in two editions of the Tour de France. He died on 4 April 2017.
Petrus Ramus
Petrus Ramus was an influential French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was one of the most prominent victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Fabien Centonze
Fabien Centonze is a French professional footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club FC Metz as a right back.
Laurent Garnier
Laurent Garnier, also known as Choice, is a French electronic music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJing in Manchester during the late 1980s. He became a producer in the early 1990s and recorded several albums.
Charles-Marie Widor
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher, most notable for his ten organ symphonies, of the mid-Romantic era..
Maurice Challe
Maurice Challe was a French general during the Algerian War, one of four generals who took part in the Algiers putsch.
Olivier Roy
Olivier Roy is a French political scientist, professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has published articles and books on secularisation and Islam including "Global Islam", and The Failure of Political Islam. He is known to have "a different view of radical Islam" than some other experts, seeing it as peripheral, Westernized and part of a radicalized and "virtual" rather than pious and "actual" Muslim community. More recently he has written on the Charlie Hebdo shooting, and the November 2015 Paris attacks.