List of Famous people born in France

Louis Jung was a French politician who was a Senator and later the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Djilali Bedrani is a French runner specialising in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He reached the final at the 2018 European Championships finishing tenth.

André Marcon is a French actor. In 1980 he starred in Le Voyage en douce directed by Michel Deville.

Joan of England was a queen consort of Sicily and countess consort of Toulouse. She was the seventh child of Henry II, King of England, and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine. From her birth, she was destined to make a political and royal marriage. She married William II of Sicily and later Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, two very important and powerful figures in the political landscape of Medieval Europe.

Alexandre Bontemps (1626–1701) was the valet of King Louis XIV and a powerful figure at the court of Versailles, respected and feared for his exceptional access to the King. He was the second of a sequence of five Bontemps to hold the position of Premier valet de la Chambre du Roi in uninterrupted succession between 1643 and 1766, when an early death, leaving no successor, broke the line. There were four head or Premier valets de chambre, of whom Bontemps became the most senior in 1665, and thirty-two valets.

Jean-Claude Decagny was a French politician who was an MP from 1993 to 2010. He also served as Mayor of Maubeuge from 1984 to 1989 and from 1995 to 2001.

Nicolas-Jacques Conté was a French painter, balloonist, army officer, and inventor of the modern pencil.

Pierre-Alain Raphan is a French accountant and politician representing La République En Marche! He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the 10th constituency of the department of Essonne.

Louis of Lorraine was the Count of Armagnac from his father's death in 1666. The Grand Squire of France, he was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Guise, itself a cadet branch of the sovereign House of Lorraine. His descendants include Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Umberto II of Italy, and Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval.

René II was Count of Vaudémont from 1470, Duke of Lorraine from 1473, and Duke of Bar from 1483 to 1508. He claimed the crown of the Kingdom of Naples and the County of Provence as the Duke of Calabria 1480–1493 and as King of Naples and Jerusalem 1493–1508. He succeeded his uncle John of Vaudémont as Count of Harcourt in 1473, exchanging it for the county of Aumale in 1495. He succeeded as Count of Guise in 1504.