List of Famous people born in France
Gabriel Montcharmont
Gabriel Montcharmont was a French politician.
Lucien Pissarro
Lucien Pissarro was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.
Victor Arago
William Greathed
Major-General William Wilberforce Harris Greathed was a British senior officer in the Bengal Engineers.
Léo Hamon
Léo Hamon, was a French politician. He was a member of the Popular Republican Movement and the Union for the Defence of the Republic. He was also a member of the fourth district of Essonne, Senator of the Seine, a government spokesman and State Secretary of Participation and the Incentive.
Jeanne d'Évreux
Joan of Évreux was Queen of France and Navarre as the third wife of King Charles IV of France.
Victoire de Rohan
Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan, Princess of Guéméné was a French noblewoman and court official. She was the governess of the children of Louis XVI of France. She is known better as Madame de Guéméné, and was Lady of Clisson in her own right.
Serge Korber
Serge Korber is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 45 films between 1962 and 2007. Successful as the director of comedies starring Louis de Funès in L'homme orchestre and Perched on a Tree, he earned acclaim with his tragical drama Hearth Fires starring Annie Girardot and Claude Jade as mother and daughter. This film was official French film at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
Anthony, bastard of Burgundy
Antoine de Bourgogne, known to his contemporaries as the Bastard of Burgundy or Le grand bâtard, was the natural son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, and one of his mistresses, Jeanne de Presle. He was comte de La Roche (Ardenne), de Grandpré, de Sainte-Menehould et de Guînes, seigneur de Crèvecoeur, Beveren et Tournehem, and chevalier of the Golden Fleece.
Ernest Seillière
The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière was a French writer, journalist and critic.