List of Famous people born in France
John, Dauphin of France, Duke of Touraine
John, Dauphin of France and Duke of Touraine was the fourth son and ninth child of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria.
Gaston Goüin
Mehdi Zerkane
Mehdi Zerkane is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ligue 1 club Girondins de Bordeaux. Born in France, Zerkane represents the Algeria national team.
Robert Mitterrand
Émilie Pellapra
Émilie Louise Marie Françoise Joséphine Pellapra, comtesse de Brigode, princesse de Chimay, was the daughter of Françoise-Marie LeRoy and possibly Napoleon I of France. She claimed to be the product of her mother's affair with the French Emperor which supposedly took place in April 1805, but this date is incompatible with Émilie's birth in November 1806. She was married firstly to Count Louis-Marie of Brigode (1777–1827) and married secondly to Prince Joseph de Riquet de Caraman (1808–1886), 17th prince de Chimay.
Raymond of Poitiers
Raymond of Poitiers was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149. He was the younger son of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, born in the very year that his father the Duke began his infamous liaison with Dangereuse de Chatelherault.
Jean Buridan
Jean Buridan was an influential 14th century French philosopher.
Adela of France
Adela of France, known also as Adela the Holy or Adela of Messines;, was, by marriage, the Duchess of Normandy, and Countess of Flanders (1035–1067).
Margaret of Foix-Candale
Margaret of Foix-Candale, Marchioness of Saluzzo, regent of Marquisate of Saluzzo (1504–1526), aunt of Anna of Foix-Candale, Queen of Hungary.
Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans
Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans known as Mademoiselle de Beaujolais was the daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans and his wife, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, the youngest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, and of the House of Orléans, Philippine Élisabeth was a Princesse du Sang. She died of smallpox at the age of nineteen.