List of Famous people born in France

Yoan Patrick Gouffran is a French professional footballer who plays for Armenian club Ararat-Armenia. He plays as a striker or a winger and is renowned for his pace and ability to finish with either foot.

Michel Auguste Croz was a French mountain guide and the first ascentionist of many mountains in the western Alps during the golden age of alpinism. He is chiefly remembered for his death on the first ascent of the Matterhorn and for his climbing partnership with Edward Whymper.

Francisco de Paula de Borbón y Castellví was a younger son of the controversial Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville, grandson of Charles IV of Spain and younger brother of Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz, king consort of Isabella II of Spain. Despite his family ties, Francisco was never entitled Infante of Spain due to the unequal marriage of his parents, which did not receive approval from Queen Isabella II.

Jean-Claude Lamy (3 August 1941, Valence in the Drôme department, is a French journalist, writer and publisher.

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself by way of a 30-year career in the French civil service.

Didier Bienaime was a French actor

Laurent Madouas is a French former road cyclist. His son Valentin is also a cyclist.

Humbert Camerlo was a French opera director.

Gerberge of Lorraine was the daughter of Giselbert, Duke of Lorraine, and Gerberga of Saxony, daughter of Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany. She was a descendant of Charlemagne through both her parents. Gerberge died sometime after 7 September 978.

Georg Friedrich Strass was an Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones. He is best known as the inventor of the rhinestone, called strass in many European languages, from a particular type of crystal he found in the river Rhine.