Napoléon Bonaparte
Jean-Michel Jarre: Music producer and composer, son of Maurice Jarre, famous movie theme composer. Composed Oxygèneand Equinoxe (New Age synthesizer) to name a few. Look him up on Wikipedia.
Coco Chanel: Fashion designer in the 1910s.
William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant)
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Fictional detective and star of the Pink Panther movies.
Louis Vuitton
The country of France has famous people in the arts, sports, and science, as well as other areas. Some examples are, Andre the giant, Jessica Fox, and Alexander Levy.
There are loads of poems in French. Some that most French know of, (or ought to):
Heureux, qui comme Ulysse... (Joachim du Bellay, les regrets)
Mignonne, allons voir si la rose... (Ronsard)
le loup et l'agneau (Jean de la Fontaine, fables)
demain, dès l'aube... (Victor Hugo, les contemplations)
le bateau ivre (Arthur Rimbaud)
le pont Mirabeau (Apollinaire, alcools)
les iles fortunées (Raymond Queneau, fendre les flots)
Hugo
Flaubert
Dumas, pere et fils
Zola
Rostand (playwright)
Moliere "
Racine "
Balzac
de Maupassant
St. Exupery
Pagnol- playwright
Claudel "
Sartre "
Giraudoux ""
Collette
Stendahl
Lesage
Anatole France
Rabelais
Bossuet
-- these are not in any particular order- just some names I remember from French class
poets: Ronsard, Lemartine
I think there are many famous French sportswomen, but I don't think one is the most famous. Sorry! =P
Baptiste giabiconi
coco channel
A number of French regions are wine-producing areas. The biggest producer and most famous region is the area of Bordeaux, in the Aquitaine region.
The most famous French dish is pate de foie gras. France has an extremely elaborate and famous national cuisine.
The most famous designer of French shoes is Christian Louboutin. He has a line of shoes popular with French women.
Joan of Arc
Europe's most famous author may have been William Shakespeare.
chiki
the most famous french sports person is Andree Brunet and Pierre Brunet!!!
Samuel de Champlain ================ The first French settler in Québec, and probably the most famous, was Louis Hébert.
The Singing Nun dominique
Marie Curie is one of the most famous French scientists in history. She paved the way for cancer treatment through radiation.
I don't think anything is more famous or more infamous than Chanel No 5. That is clearly the most famous of all perfumes and happens to be French.
Bread and cheese.
Les Miserables
Renomme pour . . .