List of Famous people born in France

Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson
First Name Emma
Born on April 15, 1990 (age 33)
Height 164 cm | 5'5

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. She has gained recognition for her roles in both blockbusters and independent films, as well as her women's rights work. Watson has been ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.

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Napoleon

Died on May 5, 1821
Born in France, Corsica
Height 169 cm | 5'7

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who led many successful campaigns during the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars, and was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions during the Napoleonic Wars. He won many of these wars and a vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over much of continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. Napoleon is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history, and his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide. His political and cultural legacy has made him one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in human history.

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Léa Seydoux

Léa Hélène Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne
First Name Léa
Last Name Seydoux
Born on July 1, 1985 (age 38)

Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne is a French actress. She began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She first came to attention after she received her first César Award nomination, for her performance in The Beautiful Person (2008), and won the Trophée Chopard, an award given to promising actors at the Cannes Film Festival.

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David Ginola

David Ginola-Ceze

David Ginola-Ceze is a French former international football player who has also worked as an actor, model and football pundit.

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Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell
First Name Ghislaine
Born on December 25, 1961 (age 62)

Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British socialite, known for her association with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She worked for her father, the publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, until his death in 1991, when she moved to the United States and became a close associate of Epstein. Maxwell founded a non-profit group for the protection of oceans, The TerraMar Project, in 2012. The organisation announced cessation of operations on 12 July 2019, a week after the sex trafficking charges brought by New York federal prosecutors against Epstein became public.

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Éric Zemmour

Éric Justin Léon Zemmour
First Name Éric
Last Name Zemmour
Born on August 31, 1958 (age 65)

Éric Justin Léon Zemmour is a French essayist, political journalist and writer. His anti-liberal and anti-immigration positions, as well as the numerous controversies he has been involved in, are notorious in his homeland. With the publication of The French Suicide in 2014, a book for which he was awarded the Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand the following year, he gained popularity outside of France. He also received the Prix Richelieu in 2011 for the whole of his career as a journalist.

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Kylian Mbappé

Kylian Mbappé Lottin
First Name Kylian
Last Name Mbappé
Born on December 20, 1998 (age 25)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Kylian Mbappé Lottin is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. Widely considered as one of the best players in the world, he is known for his dribbling, explosive speed, and clinical finishing.

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Jean de Carrouges

First Name Jean
Last Name Carrouges
Born on November 30, 1329
Died on September 25, 1396 (aged 66)
Born in France, Normandy

Sir Jean de Carrouges IV was a French knight who governed estates in Normandy as a vassal of Count Pierre d'Alençon and served under Admiral Jean de Vienne in several campaigns against the English and the forces of the Ottoman Empire. He became infamous in medieval France for fighting in the last judicial duel permitted by the French king and the Parlement of Paris. The combat was decreed in 1386 to contest charges of rape Carrouges had brought against his neighbour and erstwhile friend Jacques Le Gris on behalf of his wife Marguerite. It was attended by much of the highest French nobility of the time led by King Charles VI and his family, including a number of royal dukes. It was also attended by thousands of ordinary Parisians and in the ensuing decades was chronicled by such notable medieval historians as Jean Froissart, Jean Juvénal des Ursins and Jean de Waurin.

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Claude Cahun

Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob
First Name Claude
Last Name Cahun
Born on October 25, 1894
Died on December 8, 1954 (aged 60)

Claude Cahun, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, was a French queer photographer, sculptor and writer.

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Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Yazid Zidane

Zinedine Yazid Zidane, popularly known as Zizou, is a French former professional football player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the current manager of La Liga club Real Madrid and is one of the most successful managers in the world. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Zidane was an elite playmaker renowned for his elegance, vision, passing, ball control, and technique. He received many individual accolades as a player, including being named FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003, and winning the 1998 Ballon d'Or.

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