List of Famous people born in France

Baron James Gustave Jules Alain de Rothschild was a French banker and philanthropist.

Marie-Laure de Noailles, Vicomtesse de Noailles was a French artist, regarded one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Ned Rorem, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Francis Poulenc, Wolfgang Paalen, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality. She and her husband financed Ray's film Les Mystères du Château de Dé (1929), Poulenc's Aubade (1929), Buñuel and Dalí's film L'Âge d'Or (1930), and Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet (1930).

Victurnien Jean-Baptiste Marie de Rochechouart, prince of Tonnay-Charente then 9th duke of Mortemart was a French general and politician. He came from the Mortemart branch of the house of Rochechouart, named after the barony of Mortemart in Haute-Vienne, later raised to a marquisate and finally in December 1650 to a peer-duchy.

Léon Augustin Lhermitte was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.

Gérald Laroche is a French actor born in Paris, France. He is an actor and composer known for his roles in Maléfique (2002), The Last Deadly Mission (2008) and Love Crime (2010).

Jean-Frédéric Chapuis is a French freestyle skier. He won the gold medal at the 2013 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in ski cross. He repeated his success in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games with a Gold medal.

Antonia of Lorraine (1568-1610) was a French aristocrat. The daughter of duke Charles III of Lorraine, and Claude of Valois, she was styled as the Duchess of Jülich-Kleve-Berg.

Maurice Edmond Sailland, better known by his pen-name Curnonsky, and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century. He wrote or ghost-wrote over 65 books and enormous numbers of newspaper columns. He is often considered the inventor of gastronomic motor-tourism as popularized by Michelin, though he himself could not drive. He was a student of Henri-Paul Pellaprat.

Édouard Nanny was an important French double bass player, teacher, and composer. He was a longtime professor of double bass at the Paris Conservatory.

Henri Jules de Bourbon was prince de Condé, from 1686 to his death. At the end of his life he suffered from clinical lycanthropy and was considered insane.