List of Famous people born in France
Colville Adrian de Rune Barclay
Sir Colville Adrian de Rune Barclay was a British diplomat who served as chargé d'affaires in Washington D.C., minister to Sweden and Hungary and ambassador to Portugal.
Ernest Goüin
Napoléon Joseph Ney
Napoléon Joseph Ney, 2nd Prince de la Moskowa, (1803–1857) was a French politician.
Léon Walras
Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras was a French mathematical economist and Georgist. He formulated the marginal theory of value and pioneered the development of general equilibrium theory. Walras is best known for his book Éléments d'économie politique pure, a work that has contributed greatly to the mathematization of economics through the concept of general equilibrium. The definition of the role of the entrepreneur found in it was also taken up and amplified by Schumpeter.
Bertrand de Broc
Bertrand de Broc is a French professional sailor born on 23 September 1960 in Quimper. He has long resided in Combrit in the Finistère. He has competed in four Vendee Globe's completing the 2012-2013 Vendée Globe in 9th place.
Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne
Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French noblewoman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. Married into the House of Beauvau, a powerful family originating in Anjou, she had a daughter at the age twenty, and died of smallpox at the age of thirty three. The present Duke of Mouchy branch of the Noailles family are descended from her.
Florian Grengbo
Florian Grengbo is a French track cyclist.
Julien Bargeton
Julien Bargeton is a French politician who is a member of the French Senate representing Paris.
Daisy Fellowes
Daisy Fellowes was a prominent French socialite, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune.
Denise Bloch
Denise Madeleine Bloch was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War. Captured by the Germans, she was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp.