List of Famous people born in France

Hubert Damisch, was a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris from 1975 until 1996.

Pierre Matisse was a French-American art dealer active in New York City. He was the youngest child of French painter Henri Matisse.

Pierre Brûlart, Marquis de Sillery, Viscount Puisieux, Baron Grand Pressigny served Louis XIII as joint Minister of Foreign Affairs and War from 1617 to 1626.

Bathilde d'Orléans was a French princess of the blood of the House of Orléans. She was sister of Philippe Égalité, the mother of the Duke of Enghien and aunt of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. Married to the young Duke of Enghien, a distant cousin, she was known as the Duchess of Bourbon following the birth of her son. She was known as Citoyenne Vérité during the French Revolution.

Antoine François Marmontel was a French pianist, composer, teacher and musicographer.

Antoine Duhamel was a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher.

Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse was a French engineer. He was born in Paris as the son of Laetitia Bonaparte-Wyse, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte and estranged wife of the Irish politician Sir Thomas Wyse, Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse's real father was a British army officer, Captain Studholme John Hodgson. He joined the French navy as a midshipman on the ship Amphion, based in Toulon. Commissioned by the French company Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama he obtained a concession to build a canal from the Colombian government. He made two trips to Panama to study the project and the concluded it was feasible. The agreement, known as the "Wyse Concession" was valid 99 years and allowed the company to dig a canal and exploit it. The Panama Scandal allowed Ferdinand de Lesseps to redeem the rights. After this Bonaparte Wyse wrote his memoirs, intending to prove to investors that the project was viable. The United States would get the concession and build the canal.

Jean de Brunhoff was a French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books concerning a fictional elephant, the first of which was published in 1931.