Famous People Born in France

Alain Robbe-Grillet ( Brest )
Alexandre Dumas ( Villers-Cotterets )
Alfred Dreyfus ( Mulhouse )
Amelie Mauresmo ( St. Germains en Laye )
Anais Nin ( Neuilly )
Anne Parillaud ( Paris )
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( Lyon )
Antoine Lavoisier ( Paris )
Audrey Tautou ( Beaumont )
Aurelie Claudel ( Saint-Mars-d Autille )
Balthus ( Paris )
Bernadette Soubirous ( Lourdes )
Bernard Werber ( Toulouse )
Blaise Pascal ( Clermont-Ferrand )
Brigitte Bardot ( Paris )
Brigitte Boisselier
Cardinal Richelieu ( Paris )
Catherine Deneuve ( Paris )
Charles de Gaulle ( Lille )
Christine Lagarde ( Paris )
Claude Monet ( Paris )
Claudette Colbert ( Paris )
Claudine Longet ( Paris )
Clémence Poésy ( Near Paris )
Coco Chanel ( Saumur )
Cyrano de Bergerac ( Paris )
Denis Diderot ( Langres )
Dominique Strauss-Kahn ( Neuilly-sur-Seine )
Edgar Degas ( Paris )
Edith Piaf ( Paris )
Edmond Charles Genét ( Versailles )
Edouard Manet ( Paris )
Eleanor of Aquitaine ( Bordeaux )
Emile Zola ( Paris )
Emma Watson ( Paris )
Eva Green ( Paris )
Fernand Lamaze
Henri Cartier-Bresson ( Chanteloup )
Henri Matisse ( Le Cateau-Cambrésis )
Henri Pétain ( Cauchy-a-al-Tour )
Isabelle Huppert ( Paris )
J. J. Grandville ( Nancy )
Jacques Chirac ( Paris )
Jacques-Louis David ( Paris )
Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( Saint-André de Cubzac )
James Smithson ( Paris )
Jean-Luc Godard ( Paris )
Jean-Marie Le Pen ( La Trinite-sur-Mar )
Jean-Paul Sartre ( Paris )
Joan of Arc ( Domrémy )
John Calvin ( Noyon )
Jules Verne ( Nantes )
Julie Delpy ( Paris )
Juliette Binoche ( Paris )
King Louis XVI ( Versailles )
Knox Jolie-Pitt ( Nice )
Laetitia Casta ( Pont-Audemer )
Lisa See ( Paris )
Louis Braille ( Coupvray )
Louis de Branges ( Paris )
Louis Lumiére ( Besanéon )
Louis Pasteur ( Dole )
Louis Vuitton ( Anchay )
Marcel Proust ( Auteuil )
Marie Trintignant ( Boulogne-Billancourt )
Marion Cotillard ( Paris )
Maximilien Robespierre ( Arras )
Michel Hazanavicius ( Paris )
Michel Legrand ( Paris )
Nicolas Sarkozy ( Paris )
Nostradamus ( St. Remy )
Paul Gauguin ( Paris )
Pierre Curie ( Paris )
Raël
René Descartes ( La Haye )
Richard Gasquet ( Beziers )
Roger Vadim ( Paris )
Roman Polanski ( Paris )
Rudolf Diesel ( Paris )
Sarah Bernhardt ( Paris )
Thierry Henry ( Paris )
Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier ( Saint-Lô )
Victor Hugo ( Besancon )
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt ( Nice )
Voltaire ( Paris )
W. Somerset Maugham ( Paris )
William "Billy" Mitchell ( Nice )
Yo-Yo Ma ( Paris )
Zacarias Moussaoui ( St. Jean de Luz )
Zinedine Zidane ( Marseille )