List of Famous people born in France

Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter. For this achievement he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926.

Delphine Bagarry is a French emergency physician and politician elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Jean-François Casimir Delavigne was a French poet and dramatist.

Tripy Makonda is a French footballer who plays as a left back for FC Blue Boys Muhlenbach in Luxembourg.

Pierre Jules César Janssen, also known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium.

Pierre Georges Daix was a French journalist and writer. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso.

Charles du Maine (1414–1472) was a French prince of blood and an advisor to Charles VII of France, his brother-in-law, during the Hundred Years' War. He was the third son of Louis II, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples, and Yolande of Aragon.

Louis I of Orléans was Duke of Orléans from 1392 to his death. He was also, Duke of Touraine (1386–1392), Count of Valois (1386?–1406) Blois (1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407), Périgord (1400–1407) and Soissons (1404–07).

Manuel José Piñera Carvallo was a Chilean engineer, diplomat and Christian Democratic politician. He was born in Paris in 1917 and died in Santiago in 1991.

Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este is a member of the Belgian royal family as the husband of Princess Astrid of Belgium. He is the head of the House of Austria-Este, a cadet branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine; he has held this position since 1996.