List of Famous people born in France
Peter Luccin
Peter Bernard Luccin is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He currently serves as an assistant coach with MLS side FC Dallas.
Line Noro
Line Noro was a French stage and film actress. During the 1930s she played glamorous, often exotic, women in films such as Pépé le Moko. Between 1945 and 1966 Noro was a member of the Comédie Française. She was married to the film director André Berthomieu.
Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine
Isabella was suo jure Duchess of Lorraine, from 25 January 1431 to her death in 1453. She was also Queen of Naples by marriage to René of Anjou. Isabella ruled the Kingdom of Naples and her husband's domains in France as regent during his imprisonment in Burgundy in 1435-1438.
Jean-Marie Zoellé
Jean-Marie Zoellé was a French politician, mayor of Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin from 2011 till his death in office in 2020.
Méline Nocandy
Méline Nocandy is a French female handballer for Metz Handball and the French national team.
Élie Cartan
Élie Joseph Cartan, ForMemRS was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems, and differential geometry. He also made significant contributions to general relativity and indirectly to quantum mechanics. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century.
Jérôme Pineau
Jérôme Pineau is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2015 for the Bouygues Télécom, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and IAM Cycling squads. Born in Mont-Saint-Aignan, Pineau now works as the general manager for UCI ProTeam B&B Hotels p/b KTM.
Jacques David
Jacques Louis Antoine Marie David was a French Roman Catholic bishop.
Georges Domercq
Georges Domercq was a French Rugby Union referee. He was also a politician, serving as Mayor of Bellocq from 1971 to 2014.
Benoît Battistelli
Benoît Battistelli is a French civil servant, former president of the European Patent Office (EPO) (2010-2018), and former head of the French National Industrial Property Institute (INPI).