List of Famous people born in France
Fabrice Guy
Fabrice Guy is a former French nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990s. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville he won gold in the 15 km individual, then won a bronze in the 4 x 5 km team competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. He also has two medals from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a silver medal in the 3 x 10 km team event in 1991 and a bronze medal in the 15 km individual event in 1997.
John II, Duke of Lorraine
John II of Anjou was Duke of Lorraine from 1453 to his death. He was the son of René of Anjou and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. He was married to Marie de Bourbon, daughter of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon.
Élodie Lorandi
Élodie Lorandi is a French Paralympic swimmer who won medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Serge Grouard
Serge Grouard was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Loiret's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2017, as a member of The Republicans. He served as mayor of Orléans between 2001 and 2015 and was reelected in 2020.
Heinrich Friedrich Karl of Württemberg
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed. In 2015, her breakthrough paper was listed by the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of thirteen 'milestone' results in the study of general relativity, across the hundred years in which it had been studied.
Laurent Pionnier
Laurent Pionnier is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Franck Honorat
Franck Honorat is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ligue 1 club Stade Brestois 29.
Pierre Yovanovitch
Pierre Yovanovitch is a French interior designer.
Philippe Forest
Philippe Forest is a French author and professor of literature. He has been awarded the First Novel Prix Femina (1997) and the Prix Décembre (2004), and his works have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. He has taught at several Universities, including Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Saint-Andrews, and the University of Nantes.