List of Famous people born in France
Nabil Baha
Nabil Baha is a retired Moroccan footballer who played as a striker.
Joan of Navarre
Joan of Navarre, also known as Joanna was Duchess of Brittany by marriage to Duke John IV, and later Queen of England by marriage to King Henry IV. She served as regent of Brittany from 1399 until 1403 during the minority of her son. She also served as regent of England during the absence of her stepson, Henry V, in 1415. Four years later he imprisoned her and confiscated her money and land. Joan was released in 1422, shortly before Henry V's death.
Morvan Lebesque
Morvan Lebesque, was the Breton language name of Maurice Lebesque, a Breton nationalist activist and French journalist.
Archduchess Clotilde, Archduchess Joseph Karl of Austria
Princess Marie Adelheid Amalie Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, full German name: Marie Adelheid Amalie Clotilde, Prinzessin von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, Herzogin zu Sachsen was a Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by birth and an Archduchess of Austria through her marriage to Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria.
Firminus Caron
Firminus Caron was a French composer, and likely a singer, of the Renaissance. He was highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and numerous compositions of his survive. Most of what is known about his life and career is inferred.
Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro
Prince Ranieri Maria Gaetano, Duke of Castro was a claimant to the headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Eugène Labiche
Eugène Marin Labiche was a French dramatist. His 1851 farce The Italian Straw Hat, written with Marc-Michel, has been adapted many times to stage and screen.
Claude Fagedet
Claude Fagedet was a French photographer. He took many photographs of Occitanie, including his hometown of Narbonne and the chalets in Gruissan. He also took photographs on his many trips abroad. He was awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
Bonne of Berry
Bonne of Berry was the daughter of John, Duke of Berry, and Joanna of Armagnac. Through her father, she was a granddaughter of John II of France.
Pierre Augereau
Charles Pierre François Augereau, 1st Duke of Castiglione was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. After serving in the Revolutionary Wars, he earned rapid promotion while fighting against Spain and soon found himself as a division commander under Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy. He fought in all of Bonaparte's battles of 1796 with great distinction. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon entrusted Augereau with important commands. His life ended under a cloud because of his poor timing in switching sides between Napoleon and King Louis XVIII of France. Napoleon wrote of Augereau that he "has plenty of character, courage, firmness, activity; is inured to war; is well liked by the soldiery; is fortunate in his operations.". Augereau is generally counted as one of the most capable generals of the Napoleonic Wars.