List of Famous people born in France

Christian-Jaque was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including Lucrèce Borgia (1953), Madame du Barry (1954), and Nana (1955).

Julien Simon is a French road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie.

François de Bourbon, Count of Enghien was a French prince du sang from the House of Bourbon-Vendôme, a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon. He was the son of Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme and Françoise d'Alençon.

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer. He was born in Caen, Normandy, France, to the Comte and Comtesse de Crèvecœur.

Hervé Jaubert is a former French Navy officer, marine engineer, spy who operated as a secret agent for the DGSE until 1993. He moved to Stuart, Florida in the early 2000s where he set up a company to build and operate recreational submarines. He then moved his firm to the United Arab Emirates, branded as Exomos. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis in October 2008, Exomos ceased to exist. Jaubert was found guilty of embezzlement by a Dubai Court and has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to repay AED 14 million. Jaubert fled the country within the year after being accused of embezzlement and subsequently returned to Stuart, where he is a permanent US resident.

François Guillaume is a French politician. He was a member of the Rally for the Republic and after then a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. Between 1979 and 1986, he was the president of the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants d'Agricoles.

Christian Synaeghel is a French retired professional football midfielder.

Willy A. Kleinau (1907–1957) was a German actor.

Charles-Victor Hugo was a French journalist, photographer, the second son of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher.