List of Famous people born in France

Étienne Dolet was a French scholar, translator and printer. Dolet was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime. His early attacks upon the Inquisition, the city council and other authorities in Toulouse, together with his later publications in Lyon treating of theological subjects, roused the French Inquisition to monitor his activities closely. After being imprisoned several times, he was eventually convicted of heresy, strangled and burned with his books due to the combined efforts of the parlement of Paris, the Inquisition, and the theological faculty of the Sorbonne.

Father René Laurentin was a French theologian. He is widely recognized as "one of the world’s foremost students" of Mariology and is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on topics including Marian apparitions such as Lourdes and Medjugorje; visionaries and mystics including Bernadette Soubirous, Thérèse de Lisieux, Catherine Labouré, and Yvonne Aimée de Malestroit; as well as biblical exegesis, theology, and Vatican II.

Jacques Charon was a French actor and film director.

Jean-Philippe Dojwa is a French former cyclist. He finished fifteenth in the 1993 Tour de France.

Émile Edmond Jean Peynot was a prominent French artist and sculptor.

Marc Lazar is professor and director of the Doctoral School at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He manages a research group on contemporary Italy with CERI.

David Moncoutié is a retired French professional road racing cyclist, who rode with the French team Cofidis, for his entire professional career. He was a climber, and won his first professional race in a mountain stage of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. He won the Mountains Classification in Vuelta a España four times, one short of the record of five held by José Luis Laguía.

Maxime Chanot is a French-born Luxembourgish professional footballer who plays as a central defender for New York City in Major League Soccer.

Yoann Blanc is a French-Swiss actor. He is known for playing Detective Yoann Peeters in La Treve, which was released worldwide on Netflix. He resides in Belgium.

Marquis Jules Félix Philippe Albert de Dion de Wandonne was a pioneer of the automobile industry in France. He invented a steam-powered car and used it to win the world's first auto race, but his vehicle was adjudged to be against the rules. He was a co-founder of De Dion-Bouton, the world's largest automobile manufacturer for a time, as well as the French sports newspaper L'Équipe.