List of Famous people born in France

Antoine Crozat, Marquis du Châtel, French founder of an immense fortune, was the first proprietary owner of French Louisiana, from 1712 to 1717.

Lionel Lamy was a French professional footballer who played as a defender and midfielder.

François Le Lionnais was a French chemical engineer and writer. He was a co-founder of the literary movement Oulipo.

Pauline Ranvier is a French right-handed foil fencer and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.

Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed was best known as the maternal grandmother of Edith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. French of Moroccan-Italian descent, she worked as a singer and circus performer.

Aloïse Retornaz is a French sailor.

Georges Othily was a French Guianese politician who was elected to the French Senate in 1989. His biography of René Jadfard, René Jadfard ou l'éclair d'une vie, was published by Éditions caribéennes in 1989.

Mehdi Bourabia is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sassuolo in the Serie A.

Dimitry Bertaud is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Montpellier and the France U21 national team.

Christine Montalbetti is a French novelist, playwright and professor of literature at the University of Paris. In her writing, Montalbetti practices what Warren Motte calls "intrusive narration," or a narrative style that engages the reader directly in dialogue. Thus in one of her short stories, Montalbetti remarks to the reader, "you are the one person who many imagine flawlessly the particular trouble that the unlucky hero of this story experiences."