List of Famous people born in France

Béryl Gastaldello is a French swimmer.

Margaret of Burgundy was Duchess of Bavaria as the wife of Duke William II.

Michel Jourdan is a retired French film actor.

Michel Leclercq is a French billionaire businessman. He is the founder and 40% owner of Decathlon. With over 1647 stores in 57 countries and regions, it is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world.

Alexandre Breffort (1901–1971) was a French screenwriter.

Cécile Rilhac is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the department of Val-d'Oise.

Christophe Bataille, born 1971, is a French writer.

Auguste Bruno Braquehais was a French photographer active primarily in Paris in the mid-19th century. His photographic work documenting the 1871 Paris Commune is considered an important early example of photojournalism. While largely forgotten after his death, his work was rediscovered during preparations for the Commune's centennial in 1971, and his photographs have since been the exhibited at numerous museums, including the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Carnavalet Museum.

Henriette Louise de Bourbon was a French princess by birth and a member of the House of Bourbon. She was the abbess of Beaumont-lès-Tours Abbey.

Alix, Princess Napoléon is the widow of Louis, Prince Napoléon, the disputed head of the House of Bonaparte, and pretender to the Imperial throne of France from their marriage in 1949 until his death in 1997. Bonapartists regarded her as "Empress of the French" for almost fifty years of the 20th century.