List of Famous people born in France

Maurice Hardouin was a French professional footballer who played as a striker.

Michel Lequenne was a French politician and activist. He was particularly interested in Christopher Columbus and the Russian Revolution.

Sebastian Charles Edward Roché is a Scottish-French actor. He is known for his roles as Kurt Mendel in Odyssey 5, Jerry Jacks in General Hospital, Thomas Jerome Newton in Fringe, Balthazar in Supernatural, Mikael in both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, and Reichsminister Martin Heusmann in The Man in the High Castle.

Daniel Schneidermann is a French journalist, born in Paris on April 5, 1958, who focuses on the analysis of televised media. He is mainly active in weekly columns—in the past in Le Monde and presently in Libération and on a video channel: Arrêt sur images (Freeze-frame), formerly broadcast by the public TV channel France 5, but currently financed by subscription. The television show was canceled in 2007 by France 5 direction, an incident that led to the creation of the Arret Sur Images web site.

Louis Auguste Blanqui was a French socialist and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism.

Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière was a French admiral and Governor General of New France from 1 March 1749 until his death in 1752.

François Burgat, born April 2 1948 in Chambéry, is a French political scientist and arabist, Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) posted at IREMAM in Aix-en-Provence. He has been the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council research program "When Autoritarism Fails in the Arab World WAFAW" (2013-2017).

Thomas Cuisset was a French photographer. He was a resident artist at the Villa Medici in 1992. He won the Prix Moins Trente in 1987, and the Prix de photographie from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2009.

Maurice Louis Baquet was a French actor and cellist.

Georges Fontès was a French politician. He was first a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), then the Rally for the Republic (RPR), and finally the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).