List of Famous people born in France

Robert Delpire was an art publisher, editor, curator, film producer and graphic designer who lived and worked in Paris. He predominantly concerned himself with documentary photography, influenced by his interest in anthropology.

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano, was a French biologist and ornithologist. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte.

Corentin Ermenault is a French road and track cyclist, who currently rides for French amateur team AVC Aix-en-Provence. His father, Philippe Ermenault, was also a professional cyclist.

Pierre Riché was a French historian specializing in the early Middle Ages and the year 1000.

Michel Bonnevie was a French basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was part of the French national basketball team, which won the silver medal.

Richard Boucher was a French football player and coach with Toulouse FC.

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card. Disdéri, a brilliant showman, made this system of mass-production portraiture world famous.

Bernard Lavigne was a French rugby union player who played at wing.

Amadeus IX, nicknamed the Happy, was the Duke of Savoy from 1465 to 1472. The Catholic Church venerates him with a liturgical feast on March 30.