List of Famous people born in France

Caroline Ladagnous is a French female rugby union player. She represented France at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup. She has been named in the squad to the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup

Petr Cornelie is a French professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Grand Rapids Gold of the NBA G League. He stands 210 cm (6'11'’) tall and plays both the power forward and the center spots. Cornelie was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the 53rd pick of the 2016 NBA draft.

François Guérin (1927–2003) was a French film and television actor.

Alain Deloche, born 2 September 1940 at Paris, is a French surgeon. Ex member of Médecins Sans Frontières, he cofounded Médecins du Monde and is board member of the Surgeons of Hope Foundation since 1988.

M'Bala Nzola is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Italian Serie A club Spezia.

Françoise Claustre, was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of Claustre's husband, Pierre.

Jean Bernabé was a writer and linguist.

Saint-John Perse was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the United States until 1967.

Fernand Tardy was a French politician. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1980 to 1998, representing Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Ian Scott is a French pornographic actor and director starting from 1996 and is still active. He is also known by the aliases Yannick and Yanick Shaft. He has performed in over 2,200 films.