List of Famous people born in France
Samuel Bernard
Samuel Bernard, Count of Coubert (1725), was a French noble and financier.
Elsa Faucillon
Elsa Faucillon is a French politician. She is a member of the National Assembly representing Hauts-de-Seine's 1st constituency.
René Reille
Baron René Charles Reille-Soult-Dalmatie was a French soldier, industrialist and politician. He came from a wealthy military family with mining interests in the south of France. He served in the army until 1869, then went into national politics. He aligned with the right wing Bonapartist group during the French Second Republic.
Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan
Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan (1738–1813) was an Archbishop of Bordeaux starting in 1769, and Prince-Archbishop of Cambrai from 1781. He was the son of Hercule Meriadec de Rohan, prince de Guéméné and Louise-Gabrielle Julie de Rohan; brother of cardinal de Rohan, and Jules, prince de Guéméné.
Gwendal Rouillard
Gwendal Rouillard is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 2011, representing the department of Morbihan.
Paulin Gagne
Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne was a French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric. His best-known poem, The Woman-Messiah, is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses and is notable for its 24th act entitled Bestiologie which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing anthropophagy (cannibalism) at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians.
Guntram
Saint Gontrand, also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592. He was the third eldest and second eldest surviving son of Chlothar I and Ingunda. On his father's death in 561, he became king of a fourth of the Kingdom of the Franks, and made his capital at Orléans. The name "Gontrand" denotes "War Raven".
François Bizot
François Bizot is a French anthropologist, the only Westerner to have survived imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge.
Louis Charles d'Albert de Luynes
Louis-Charles d'Albert de Luynes, 2nd Duke of Luynes, was a French nobleman and peer of France. He was a translator and moralist who was the first translator of the work of René Descartes.
Pierre d'Amboise
Pierre d'Amboise was a French nobleman of the House of Amboise. He was a son of Hugh VIII of Amboise, who was killed at the battle of Agincourt, and of Jeanne de Guénand.