List of Famous people born in France

Samuel Le Bihan is a French actor, known for his role in Brotherhood of the Wolf.

Marie-Anne Chazel is a French actress, screenwriter, and director, who has been active in both film and television since 1974.

Vincent Lindon is a French actor and filmmaker who has been active for more than 30 years. At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Measure of a Man. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 46th International Film Festival of India.

Fabien Alain Barthez is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and racing driver. At club level, he played football in both France and England with Toulouse, Marseille, AS Monaco, Manchester United, and Nantes. At international level, he represented the France national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2000, and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, representing his nation at a total of three editions of both the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship; he also reached the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, after which he retired from international football.

Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as "realist", though many film critics acknowledge it does not fit the traditional definition of realism.

Valérie Bonneton is a French stage, film and television actress.

Kevin Bonnet, better known as Keen'V, earlier Keen V, is a French ragga musician. He made his breakthrough with the single "J'aimerais trop" during 2011, peaking at number 3 on the French Singles Chart.

Gabriel Matzneff is a French writer. He was the winner of the Mottard and Amic awards from the Académie française in 1987 and 2009 respectively, the Prix Renaudot essay in 2013 and the Prix Cazes in 2015.

Henri Charrière was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts. He wrote the novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty crimes prior to his incarceration.

Morgan Fernand Gérard Schneiderlin is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Nice and the France national team.